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Arpit Jacob

Aprit Jacob Arpit is a software engineer who is also a blogger and also a Web designer. He likes to connect and to met people through his blog, the Clazh.

Posted by Scott on August 2, 2007 at 4:06 am. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

33 Comments

  1. Sara
    Posted August 2, 2007 at 10:01 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Impressive screen shot. My personal favorite. The girls and I have considered modifying our big breast blog into something with 3 columns (99% of our readers are 1024 or larger screen res).

    Someday we will convert out blog into something similar to this. I love that clean web 2.0 look and ample white space.

    Gratz to Arpit Jacob for what looks like a fantastic submission.

  2. Aqua-Ye
    Posted August 4, 2007 at 10:52 am | Permalink | Edit

    Great design!

  3. Arpit Jacob
    Posted August 4, 2007 at 11:50 am | Permalink | Edit

    Thank you sara and aqua :)

  4. JJ
    Posted August 4, 2007 at 11:10 pm | Permalink | Edit

    great design. The subcategories are not indented so it’s difficult to tell that they are subcats. Also the subcats are in red on the page menu but black in the category menu (the main cat and the sub cat colors are reversed). The large pic example does not fit either. I would love to use your template, are you planning on fixing these things and making the upgrade available for download???

    Thanks.

  5. Anirudh
    Posted August 5, 2007 at 2:14 pm | Permalink | Edit

    This is one of the best themes i’ve seen in a long long while. I love the little bit of blue that stands out.

    Otherwise the entire theme is carefully and flawlessly executed, and every color and icon and font is perfectly matched.

    A winner if I’ve ever seen one.
    -
    Anirudh

  6. jasonporritt
    Posted August 7, 2007 at 12:37 am | Permalink | Edit

    Let me be the first to say — Congratulations!

  7. Arpit Jacob
    Posted August 7, 2007 at 2:20 am | Permalink | Edit

    thanks Jason :)

  8. donalyza
    Posted August 7, 2007 at 5:03 am | Permalink | Edit

    Wow Congratulations for winning the Sandbox Competition Arpit.

  9. Dennis B. Petersen
    Posted August 7, 2007 at 6:54 am | Permalink | Edit

    A well deserved winner. Its a great theme. Congrats Arpit!

  10. James
    Posted August 7, 2007 at 7:06 am | Permalink | Edit

    Are there supposed to be template files in this download? When I upload the Sandpress directory it gets listed under broken themes with the error missing template. there are no templates in the download. only a style.css.

    i also have the newest sandbox theme installed as well. any idea what i’m missing?

  11. liqwid.krystal
    Posted August 7, 2007 at 10:29 am | Permalink | Edit

    Congrats dude…u did it

    well there wasn’t any doubt on your talent, but the only difference that the world knows about it now.

    congrats and happy designing….
    u r gonna see this design soon on my side :)

    TREATTTTT!!!!!!

  12. Chien Yee
    Posted August 7, 2007 at 10:35 am | Permalink | Edit

    Congratulations :)

  13. Ben Jacob
    Posted August 7, 2007 at 12:57 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Congrats. Arpit Jacob Done a great Job.. ver Impressive Design

  14. James
    Posted August 7, 2007 at 1:07 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Am I the only one this is happening to?

  15. sunburntkamel
    Posted August 7, 2007 at 1:17 pm | Permalink | Edit

    @james-
    please make sure you are running the latest version of wordpress (2.2.2 or 2.0.11), as there was a bug in the template handling in 2.2.1

  16. Arpit Jacob
    Posted August 7, 2007 at 4:16 pm | Permalink | Edit

    thank you everyone.

    @james I haven’t tried downloading from here since I don’t want to mess up or cheat with the download counter. you can always download it from my site.

    or check Adam’s reply it might solve your problem.

  17. James
    Posted August 8, 2007 at 3:58 am | Permalink | Edit

    Yes arpit, that was the issue. You have to be using WP 2.2.2 for the new sandbox themes to work.

  18. Isagani X
    Posted August 8, 2007 at 4:13 am | Permalink | Edit

    is it possible to use this design for the wordpress.com hosted blog, that is, if we upgrade.

    if yes, how do we do it?

    This design is simply GREAT!

  19. Root
    Posted August 8, 2007 at 6:38 am | Permalink | Edit

    Nice work. I like the winner but congratulations to everyone who entered. There is some really neat stuff here.

  20. Dawn
    Posted August 8, 2007 at 3:25 pm | Permalink | Edit

    I personally think it’s just too plain but … I guess some people like it that way. :)

  21. Kimiko
    Posted August 17, 2007 at 5:51 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Nice work, but why yet another Big Blue Header?

  22. Bill
    Posted August 20, 2007 at 3:00 am | Permalink | Edit

    Love the design. I’ve been running Shades of Gray (as is) over at Web Developer’s Notebook and now that I’ve seen the winner—SandPress—I’m anxious to cast a site in it as well to show to people. Since I’ve been tied up on the road for weeks (couldn’t even keep up with the usual posts) I may keep Shades of Gray up a while longer until I can customize it (at least the header!) then switch over to SandPress.

    So I think what I’ll do is switch in SandPress in place of Barthelme over at Techismo.

    Meanwhile, I’ll be posting about the results of the competition at Web Developer’s Notebook.

    Thanks to everyone (participants, judges, sponsors) for a great design event.
    It’s amazing what blogging software—at least Wordpress—can do these days!

  23. MyDeskBlog.com
    Posted September 5, 2007 at 2:39 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Aesthetically very pleasing and easy on the eye. Not exactly out-of-this-world kinda design, coz it’s pretty much another run of the mill layout and design. Pretty good nonetheless. Congratulations!

  24. barry
    Posted September 18, 2007 at 1:40 am | Permalink | Edit

    great theme, really wanted to try it out. had 2.0 installed and upgraded to 2.3 beta3. still have the broken theme message… any ideas?

  25. Rob
    Posted September 26, 2007 at 3:53 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Well, this is interesting. I’m having James’ problem: “missing template” with this theme, but I am running WP 2.2.2. I’ve downloaded other Sandbox themes from here and had no issues.

    Any ideas?

  26. Scott
    Posted September 26, 2007 at 4:14 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Sorry. The downloadable version was missing the /* Template: sandbox */ line, which I’ve added. Try downloading it again and then reinstall.

  27. Philip Yurchuk
    Posted September 29, 2007 at 9:19 am | Permalink | Edit

    This is a great theme! The only issue I noticed was on this page:

    http://www.sndbx.org/live-preview/example-images/image-number-two/

    You can see that the date image is split for some reason. I checked it out in Firefox and IE.

  28. Jenny
    Posted October 8, 2007 at 5:27 am | Permalink | Edit

    This is a very nifty theme. I wanna try it out on my site.

  29. shahbaz
    Posted November 3, 2007 at 10:26 pm | Permalink | Edit

    The Theme on this page contains incomplete files,please follow this URL http://www.clazh.com/sandpress-071-wordpress-theme-update/

  30. Will
    Posted January 30, 2008 at 12:10 am | Permalink | Edit

    Did you base your design on 34sp.com by any chance? Same background image but much nicer navigation and colour usage to your design :)

  31. MyDeskBlog.com
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 12:36 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Very nice and elegant. Congratulations Arpit.

  32. Samardeep
    Posted August 6, 2008 at 6:40 am | Permalink | Edit

    Great design!!

  33. Ron Hager
    Posted September 16, 2008 at 2:05 am | Permalink | Edit

    When I attempt to download any of the files, I always get a message saying “The compressed (zipped) folder is invalid or corrupted”. Downloads of ziped files from other sites work so I wonder why yours will not.

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