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femmequixotic

Love can cure your problems, you're so lucky I'm around

Aug 22, 2009 03:05

It's 3 am and I have finally, finally, after about 14 combined hours of toil, beat the damn CSS code for my LJ into submission.

This redesign was a bear--I went with more CSS graphics than I usually do which required math to lay them out so they all matched up. But. Vini, vidi, vici! And it's been tested in Firefox and Safari on the Mac by me and ( Read more... )

draco malfoy is my happy place, i have a smoking kink liek woah, pairings: harry/draco, fandom: hp

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melpemone August 22 2009, 07:25:36 UTC

It's beautiful, and I am in awe of your talent. I'd give an arm to be able to do this. It's so CLEAN and SHARP and yet PRETTY. *sigh*

(Incidentally, it's slightly broken over here, but I'm willing to bet it's my resolution doing that, which is pretty unpopular. So whatever. :))

femmequixotic August 22 2009, 07:32:01 UTC

CSS is actually a lot easier to learn than people think, but you have to play around a lot with it. Most of it is trial and error, making tiny changes a few pixels here and there. *g*

Hm...it could be your resolution; that and browser settings can skew CSS a bit, depending. How's it breaking?

melpemone August 22 2009, 07:42:00 UTC

I have had a poke at it, but I had to conclude I don't have the patience anymore. I used to be quite good at learning new coding etc but it's all just letters. I'm old. *g*

The centre panel (journal itself, including header graphic), is about a centimetre half an inch below the background, so the lines don't line up. And the rounded edges of this reply box don't quiiite line up with the text, but that's absolutely minute. FYI, I'm running Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows Vista, and my resolution is 1920x1080 (widescreen).

femmequixotic August 22 2009, 07:48:03 UTC

I have absolutely no idea why it's doing that. I'll have to sleep on it and see if I can figure it out tomorrow....

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sinuous_curve August 22 2009, 07:35:55 UTC

It doesn't line up exactly right in Safari? :x

Though! A lot of layouts down line up exactly right in safari, so. :D

femmequixotic August 22 2009, 07:38:48 UTC

Really? It lines up perfectly in Safari for both me and my roommate... *ponders*

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femmequixotic August 22 2009, 08:09:18 UTC

Hooray! \0/ Good, it's working for someone else. *g*

Didn't she do an amazing job with it? OMG, I was so happy when she sent it to me. I may have flailed at her like crazy... :D

maya231 August 22 2009, 08:32:50 UTC

Beautiful artwork!

(To chime in on the testing, on my mac it is "broken" in Safari but aligned in Firefox.)

meredyth_13 August 22 2009, 08:35:04 UTC

I have been gushing at Dray over this since she put it up - OMG, you are SO lucky. It's an incredible piece of artwork, and I just stare at it and go to my happy place every time.

Even my husband thinks it's incredible, and he's pretty meh about anything HP related.

I love the sense of dimension it has, how the lower border becomes the bar, and Draco's head and Harry's hand spill into the top border. Not to mention the detail, and the hands!

I was chatting with Dray as she was working on it - I know just how much care and effort she put into it (despite my teasing about her that she should leave Harry shirtless, simply because I think you can never go past a nekkid Harry) - but the finished product was just SO MUCH more than I could have anticipated.

I am all envy! Your journal looks amazing, and you have something totally beautiful and unique to you.