About the designer
Leslie lives in northeast Ohio with his wife and dog. A ‘freakonomic’ and Braves fan (through the rotten years too), he has a love for Willie Wonka bottle caps.
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10 Comments
I thought having the one sidebar on the side and the other one on the bottom was a stroke of genius. Very nice work.
A clean, cool classic! Thanks Leslie Franke!
Very nice… I like the clean, simple (some would say minimalist) style of it.
I can see this being picked up by wordpress.com; it has an elegant, professional feel which I think would prove popular.
Ew, now we can see the designer. Check out the
readme.txtin this theme. Leslie had used a great source for his photo that I’m definitely going to use in future works.Congrats!
Like this a LOT!!! very well designed, clean and smooth as… shades of Cutline and Press Row… now for a 3 column version with content in middle, and I’d luvs-ya 4shore…
I really love this sandbox theme, thanks so much for making it. I’ve been tweaking it for a couple days on my vaporizer blog and it fits perfectly.
You’ve got skillz!
Really liking this theme and how it splits the sidebar. I’m a bit of a wordpress noob, is there a tutorial on how to do the “quick bits” posts as shown in this themes live preview?
Sorry if my last comment was considered as spam due to me linking my site with an anchor.
Leslie
I agree with David above
this is a great design alos reminicent of ocean mist
I am hunting for a 3 column version (with blog copy in the middle) - hint, hint, please please
since Im a newbie I wouls alos love to ahev Wordpress pick up the 3 column as a template for their online folks.
Cheers
Miro
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