Learning from the Sandbox

The last days, my entire site and blog were down due to some problem with the server. I am very sorry, hope they got it fixed now.

As I may have said in one or another part of my blog, I am currently working on an entry for the Sandbox Designs Competition and reading the blog connected to the site on a daily basis. There are only a few days left until submissions close, so I am working hard to submit something worth being seen.

Today I read an interesting entry about how to use the various classes of the Sandbox theme in order to create a new CSS design of it. Alister Cameron, who has published a whole bunch of articles worth reading, explains how to isolate a certain category within your WordPress blog using CSS only. To sum it up: The function included in the Sandbox theme generates a class for each category, i.e. if you created a category named “articles”, post an entry to it and view it in your blog, just have a look at your source code. The class “category-articles” will be then assigned to this one and ALL the other posts you write and assign to that category. You can now open your stylesheet, and give .category-articles some special styling to highlight the posts within that category from the other posts.

I have to say: Thanks for sharing, Alister!

Working with the Sandbox is really a good opportunity for me to practise and expand my CSS knowledge…