Having realized that there just isn’t a WordPress theme that does everything I want done, I got my tools in order for a little bit of DIY web design. Back to the drawing board I went. In my case, going back to the drawing board means getting busy with Sandbox and Google.

One great thing about the Sandbox theme, is that it is infinitely modifiable using only the stylesheet(s). CSS and I were not always besties, but that changed when I found the Web Developer extension for Firefox, thanks to a great piece on Lifehacker.

With this extension, CSS changes are viewable as you edit—no more changing one thing, uploading, refreshing, or fighting with a shadow copy of your site on a development server.

So, with my dream of five sidebars, or in the alternative four sidebars and a random images header option, I set about looking for the good news on how to make it all happen, on Google. I found this: Widgetized headers and footers?

- End of Part 1