All the designs are now available for download. Visit The Designs and check out the designs you like and then download them. I’m fairly tired after doing this, so if I’ve missed something or incorrectly linked to a design, just let me know.
Next is that Sandbox Designs Live is now offering all the designs, well, live. Get a preview of all the accepted designs from the participants.
If you’d like to download all the designs (and relieve my server host) download the Sandbox Designs torrent, which includes all the designs and the Sandbox theme (which you’ll need to use the designs).
Now, you’ll notice on the design pages next to the download link there is a number. While I am tracking downloads, everyone interested in interpreting these numbers should consider a few things, such as people may be downloading the design from the designer’s site. Etc. Depending on how outlandish the metrics become, I may disable this or just clear it every 7 days. Let’s see.
If you’re a designer and would like to update your design (for download), you know where to send the files. 
I should state that I will not update your design on Sandbox Designs Live until after the results are announced — probably. Since the SDL will serve as an archive for the competition (sort of), I’m not 100% sure that I will update designs on the SDL, instead letting them remain as received. Not sure.
One update to the process is that after some discussion and having to contact a several participants regarding their designs regarding certain ‘particiulars’ (nothing to be alarmed about), I think it is in the best interest of the competition to allow a seven-day period between results being announced and awards being delivered to allow things to ‘clear.’ I think this is reasonable, especially since awards will be delivered via Paypal. Which is quick. I hope this is OK.
Update on judging progress tomorrow evening. Enjoy your weekend.
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Nooooo! My theme messed up the About Us widget by missing padding
Thanks for the Live Previews!
Oh and about the prizes and PayPal, what about minors like me?
Enjoy your weekend too, Scott.
clear, like clearing samples? yes, i think it would be good for the major publicity from the winners announcement to blow over before awarding prizes.
Brilliant idea with the torrent.
Great job on the demo site!
@BoltClock: See the Official Rules, 6F, and then let me know if you have any questions.
Nice work Scott!
I forgot a few styles on mine, but I’m just planning to over the corrected theme on my site once the competition is over. I think it’s only fair to keep it as it was submitted on this site.
just a thought - you know instead of using gravatars for avatars, do you think that mybloglog might be better?
The Live Previews are awesome!
@Boltclock: I wouldn’t worry about it too much. A lot of people seemed to miss that.
I just looked through all the themes. Predictions: Carolyn Smith (with Diurnal) and Leslie Franke (with Shades of Gray) will both win money. I thought that Franke’s idea of having one sidebar on the side and the other on the bottom was really clever.
Further prediction: Diurnal wins the competition. The changing background based on the time of day was just genius. Wow.
It’s going to be really hard to still use my own design after seeing all the others
I’ve updated BBR to be sidebar+bottom bar and use icons, but I haven’t prepped a new download yet. Still tweakin’
The torrent file is giving the wrong mime type… coming across as a zip instead of a torrent so my torrent client isn’t automatically opening.
Hmm. I see that the file name might trick the mime type. Just save the
.torrentto your local disk and then open it in your client. Should take care of your problem.@JD: Thanks for the tip.
The SDC has just colored my web design life. Pun intended.
Thanks for such a great work! And don’t think about mistakes, everything is ok.
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