Monday, Sep 13, 10:45AM

[karzilla]

Bug counts: resolved 244, assigned 16, needs-review 8

So the influx of new users from LJ pooh-poohing our themes got me in the mood to fiddle with styles. Which is to say, I dreamed about it all night Saturday and then poked around with CSS all day yesterday while totally ignoring my family and the mess they created in my house over the weekend, because that's how I roll.

Not that I have any grand illusions of being a web designer, mind you, but I can create a layer and I can do basic CSS overrides. That's closer to web coding than web design.

The comment I focused on was from a user (didn't save the link, alas) who wanted a layout with the journal-specific background color (you know, the one you can choose on the Manage Circle page) in a strip down the side of the entry on the user's reading page. This resonated with me because I have my own LJ reading page configured that way, so I tried to reproduce it here on DW. But since I didn't want to write a new layout from scratch (see also: not a web designer) I modified an existing theme to add the feature.

It's basically done at this point, unless I decide to muck around with CSS positioning some more trying to move the journal/poster info into the strip, instead of just the journal icon. But as it is, it's okay I think. I just need to pick out some distinctive colors that hopefully don't make people want to spork their eyes out, and then I'll submit it to dreamscapes, probably later today.

Soon I'll return you to your regularly scheduled backend coding arcana.

ETA: http://dreamscapes.dreamwidth.org/42503.html

Comments

[foxfirefey]

Ahahah, I saw the same thing from a user and have been working on something similar! Aka, Classic except revamped. I'm calling it handlebars and it's my current style (because having it as my style irritates me enough to improve it here and there). It's all divs, no tables, which I'm kind of proud of?

[kareila]

Looks great! It will definitely appeal to that crowd. Mine is more of a middle ground, I guess?

[foxfirefey]

Variety is good! (Also, figuring out how to do that in divs and not tables took hours of searching online, ha.)