Hey, it must be a new week since Ken is messing around with the site theme. I’m digging this Whitespace theme by Brian Gardner — who also did the Blue Zinfandel theme we had up before. I do wish that the CSS was a little more fault-tolerant, though (the bottom bar looks pretty wonky).

While I’ve yet to see a really great theme based on Sandbox, I really love the idea of it. Anyone know of a grid-based layout that might be based on that metatheme?

Update: oh, wow. I just discovered Wrath by Small Potato. It’s simple, it’s grid-based, it works on Sandbox. I just tweaked the design a bit to feature some of our nicer Flickr photos.

I’m still a bit dissatisfied with a few things here and there. In particular, those orange RSS icons look really goofy in a red theme. Also, two columns might be a bit overkill, so one of those might go away soon.

What do you think? Sound off, as usual, in the comments.

Another Update: I installed the “Smilies Themer plugin”:http://rick.jinlabs.com/code/smilies-themer/ to set up custom smilies. I had set these same smilies up on the site “way back in 2003″:http://kennsarah.net/2003/05/09/site-changes/, but it was never easy to keep them that way. Upgrading WordPress (or, back then, Movable Type) meant wiping out my smiley configuration. This plugin solves that problem — _love_ it.