I won’t be blogging for a week since the last date for the SandBox Wordpress theme submission is 28th July and I don’t have enough time to blog and work on the theme at the same time. The SandBox theme turned out to be more complicated than I expected it to be. After going through the documentation I realized I had no control over the HTML and everything had to be done in CSS. I had to remove a number of design elements from my initial Photoshop mockup since it was not practical to implement them using just CSS. Example a date button like “JAN 09″. If you have any suggestions for the Wordpress theme, layout, design etc drop me a comment. I had planned to give a sneak preview to my regular reader but it looks like I won’t be allowed to do that, according to the sandbox competition rules.
I am looking for someone(some people) to guest blog for a week on my blog. If you interested, use the contact form to contact me. Here’s what I am looking for quality content, Tech/Design related Tips and Tricks or latest important technology news. In return you can have a intro and link to your website on each post. I have an average of 400+ RSS readers. While I won’t be editing or modifying the posts I will be reviewing it before it is published.
I didn’t think of generating individual date Buttons. I wasted 5 hours trying to come up with a work around 
you can definately do date buttons with sandbox, using graphics and the date based classes. you can check out my “the thin line” theme (demo).
and you’re right, you can’t distribute the theme publicly, but you can certainly email it to regular readers for testing.
fwiw, i’ve been posting a lot less since the original announcement