Smooth Dark

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Bundled with Sandvox

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A dark, soothing, and moody design based on black and dark gray tones makes this one of our most popular designs. A replaceable banner image makes this a very flexible design. A good choice for an artistic or photography website, a blog or personal website, or even an academic or historical site.

Supported features specific to Sandvox 2:

  • Hiearchical (pop-up) menu navigation
  • Block quotes
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Some examples of real websites using the Smooth Dark design

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From Karelia Software

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Creators of Sandvox itself — many designs are bundled with Sandvox but others are available for extra downloads.


Comments and Tweaks

Have you made any interesting tweaks to this design using a feature like Code Injection? Share your ideas here.

(If you just want to share your website that uses this design, please submit your website to the Sandvox Sites directory by choosing Submit to Site Directory… from the Site menu of Sandvox. It will show up automatically on its design page on our site.


Sandvox Features

  • Drag-drop-publish website creation
  • Build a 5-page site in 20 minutes or less
  • No HTML expertise required
  • No design expertise required
  • Easily add photos, videos, forms, and much more to your website
  • Generates HTML5 websites compatible with all popular browsers on Mac and Windows platforms, iOS devices (iPhone, iPad)
  • Generates search-engine-friendly code to aid organic discovery on Google, Bing, and other search engines
  • iMedia Browser integration
  • More designs (now over 60 to choose from) NEW
  • More powerful architecture and editing engine NEW
  • Inspector with more options NEW
  • Photo galleries with “lightbox” effect to pop out of your page NEW
  • Slide shows to flip through multiple images NEW
  • Social media integration objects NEW
  • HTML Objects: Use raw HTML to inject custom HTML or CSS and JavaScript, PHP, embed codes, etc. NEW
  • Built-in jQuery support NEW
  • New Cocoa plug-in API NEW
  • “Lion” Features like full screen mode and version browsing NEW

Learn more about Sandvox

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