When working on the design of a CMS powered website—like this one—you generally have four options:
- Modify the default installed theme/template/skin to your liking
- Find a theme that’s close to the vision you have for your website, and modify that one to your liking
- Create a theme from scratch
- Find a “blank” theme with minimal styling to use as a basis for your design
I usually go with #2 or #4, and this time, as you may have guessed from the post title, I’m going with #4. After some quick research, I’ve chosen to go with The Sandbox as my blank theme. Mostly because of how impressed I was with the documentation.
Here’s what it looks like now that it’s installed:
Pretty boring, but it will be easier to build on than the default WordPress theme.
