# NewBox **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [October 19, 2026, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/newbox/57906 "2026-10-19T13:53:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thominator](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/thominator/32/35233_2.png) [@thominator](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/thominator)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 2:06pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/newbox/57906/21 "2026-10-22T14:06:19Z")
Have to say, I haven’t had this much programming fun in years. This has totally changed how I’m approaching my old Web sites, as I now have a modern tool to maintain them. I’m still using Elements for new ones, though, as I’m not going to re-invent two wheels or four-wheel drive, the unicycle is enough. But here’s the fun part: because Claude was building NewBox, asking Claude to add MCP to NewBox was a silly simple task. So instead of more wheels, I added more steering wheels. ;~) Again, @dan if you want to help others move a Sandvox site to Elements, I have an engine that exposes all the Sandvox content (NewBoxKit) that you could use. Here’s something Sandvox could never do (Markdown page added via Claude MCP): ![bythom-0629](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/9/5/953c77bab9dc70c7653accab5d0f8dffefdb954d.png) ---
**Author:** ![thominator](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/thominator/32/35233_2.png) [@thominator](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/thominator)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/newbox/57906/22 "2026-10-22T21:05:42Z")
And it’s official. I’ve published the first site with NewBox. I took the oldest, now mothballed site, sansmirror, and ran it through NewBox. Over 2300 pages, over 4700 images, all correctly handled and published directly from NewBox. I still have to fix some links that the site references that have gone stale, but I’ve got Claude working on that problem at the moment. If for some reason the menus don’t work right if you go to [sansmirror.com](http://sansmirror.com), press Shift-Command-R. Apparently my server can still serve up the old cached style sheet. But I’ve got a fix for that coming, too. Again, for those of you following along: my old sites are all going to be maintained with NewBox for the time being. My new sites (I have three in progress) are all being done with Elements, as I’m not trying to create a new wheel here, just fix an old broken one. ---
**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2026, 7:43am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/newbox/57906/23 "2026-10-23T07:43:59Z")
> [@thominator](#): > > Again, @dan if you want to help others move a Sandvox site to Elements, I have an engine that exposes all the Sandvox content (NewBoxKit) that you could use. That’s awesome… but I’m wondering if there are actually many Sandvox users left and if it’s worth the time and effort to support something like this… Might be a nice open-source project on Github, that anyone could contribute to though 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![thominator](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/thominator/32/35233_2.png) [@thominator](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/thominator)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2026, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/newbox/57906/24 "2026-10-23T11:25:56Z")
> [@dan](#): > > I’m wondering if there are actually many Sandvox users left and if it’s worth the time and effort to support something like this I definitely don’t know. You’d be in a better place to judge that, that’s why I asked. Which gets me to thinking. A site created with Sandvox is going to have this in the head: > meta name=“generator” content=“Sandvox 2.10.12” I wonder if you could do an AI search for that and identify Sandvox-created sites to approach them about an update path? Just a thought. I have no skin in this game other than to fix my own sites. ---
**Author:** ![DaveMac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/fbc32d/32.png) [@DaveMac](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/DaveMac)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/newbox/57906/25 "2026-11-05T13:53:30Z")
> [@thominator](#): > > ArtCraft They now have released an app specific to help with REA. [https://getartcraft.com/apps/craft-anything](https://getartcraft.com/apps/craft-anything) However, the clouds are quietly putting the kibosh on things. [https://x.com/AGTPinsights/status/2113992592761524672](https://x.com/AGTPinsights/status/2113992592761524672) Local AI still prevails, for those with enough local compute ability. ---
**Author:** ![thominator](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/thominator/32/35233_2.png) [@thominator](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/thominator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/newbox/57906/26 "2026-11-05T14:34:28Z")
Just to be clear, I didn’t clone Sandvox or do the type of REA that people are talking about. What I did was examine the data structures of the site file Sandvox creates to see what was there and if it was understandable. That proved to be 100% possible. From there, I built an app that converted that data file into an SQL-type file and then built an app from scratch that uses the SQL data, one function at a time. I’ve clean-roomed products before, and I’d regard what I did as pretty clean room. ---
**Author:** ![DaveMac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/fbc32d/32.png) [@DaveMac](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/DaveMac)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/newbox/57906/27 "2026-11-05T20:34:23Z")
Was not questioning your integrity nor inquiring about your skills or process? > [@thominator](#): > > Wasn’t aware of that before, so thanks ^ Was simply sharing towards the broader topic as was done before. You already clarified your intent and process previously, nothing is being called into question here. Though, if you’re interested in expounding something, still intrigued with your numbers [over here in this thread](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/fed-up-of-paying-for-adobe/57817/43), and wanting to understand that. 😉 [Previous page](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/newbox/57906.md?page=1)