Holy redesign, Batman!
Mar. 19th, 2005 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpDon't ask how it started. Maybe I noticed a page summary on someone else's LJ, and that got me interested enough to look further. After all, quoting Bogie in The Maltese Falcon, "I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble. "
My LJ had been displayed with the aid of some home-rolled HTML that I incorporated into the pre-S2 LJ customization system, I guess, several years ago. Back in the day, I thought it was pretty slick.
Tonight, after a light dinner and under the influence of a Pilsner Urquell, I dove into the arcana of S2 and, based on the "Component" style and the pioneering (from my perspective) work done by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ninjamonkeyspy, the result of my effort can be found here.
An excellent piece of advice fromninjamonkeyspy was the following, regarding what to do once you switch to S2, select a layout, and click the Edit Customizations button:
I also developed a theme layer on the basis of source fromninjamonkeyspy and some additional code from kunzite1, although after looking through the code and making a few tweaks, I think I've made parts of it my own. The crucial part about a theme layer, though, is that anything you code in it doesn't take effect until you go to the Your Styles page and modify the theme of the appropriate style.
And if nothing I've said means anything to you, well... we'll always have Paris.
(I think I'm having a Humphrey Bogart flashback!)
Cheers...
My LJ had been displayed with the aid of some home-rolled HTML that I incorporated into the pre-S2 LJ customization system, I guess, several years ago. Back in the day, I thought it was pretty slick.
Tonight, after a light dinner and under the influence of a Pilsner Urquell, I dove into the arcana of S2 and, based on the "Component" style and the pioneering (from my perspective) work done by
ninjamonkeyspy, the result of my effort can be found here.An excellent piece of advice from
ninjamonkeyspy was the following, regarding what to do once you switch to S2, select a layout, and click the Edit Customizations button:I recommend going to the customization wizard and checking the box to override every option (but don't change anything you don't want changed). This way, when you click on "Edit" next to your user layer from the Your Styles page, you can see all the simple codes that customize the look of your style.One of the things you end up with is a list of all the color codes on the screen. Frankly, I find it really hard to figure out which color code goes where, so rather than (paraphrasing Kaspar Gutman) "sitting here, shedding tears, and calling HTML names," I came up with the idea of pasting screen shots of the default screen (with a set of ugh-GLY! colors) and a screen whose color scheme I liked into Photoshop Elements 2.0 and then using the eyedropper and the Color Picker to figure out the codes for various screen colors, which made editing the user layer a lot easier and allowed me to arrive at the colors I wanted without much fuss.
I also developed a theme layer on the basis of source from
ninjamonkeyspy and some additional code from kunzite1, although after looking through the code and making a few tweaks, I think I've made parts of it my own. The crucial part about a theme layer, though, is that anything you code in it doesn't take effect until you go to the Your Styles page and modify the theme of the appropriate style.And if nothing I've said means anything to you, well... we'll always have Paris.
(I think I'm having a Humphrey Bogart flashback!)
Cheers...
