A Guide to S2 Layer Customization and CSS in Layers

[av8rmike]

Questions about the interactions of "theme" and "user" layers seem to crop up all the time, as well as "where do I put my CSS changes", so I thought I'd write a tutorial on how to consolidate things.
UPDATE (11/05/07): This tutorial has been updated and expanded to reflect the changes to the Customize Journal section and include directions on

Comments

[anti_aol]

Mike, maybe I'm just blind, but where can I find the Unstyled theme information for Mixit? I looked under Mixit's children here:

http://www.livejournal.com/customize/advanced/layerbrowse.bml?expand=7462687

And I'm using Mixit Bookworm Blue without the Base CSS, so shouldn't I choose a Mixit Unstyled option (which doesn't seem to exist) to create my custom theme layer?

I'm nervous about doing this wrong because a lot of people see this blog - can you please set me straight?

edit Just to update you, I wanted to add a second custom text box for my handy-dandy search widget. I tried adding a theme layer using "set base them as none" and this is what I got:

http://anti-aol.livejournal.com/?s2id=30585620

I got the same result when I switched to the theme info for Expressive Unstyled.

Using Mixit Bookworm Blue as the base theme:

http://anti-aol.livejournal.com/?s2id=30585620

As you can see in all instances my custom style sheet is lost, my theme layer search widget does not show, and my customizations made through the Customization Wizard are missing as well...

[av8rmike]

You're not blind-- there is no "Unstyled" child layer of Mixit, so you'll have to use Expressive. Since your two links are the same, I'm really not following what's wrong, or what you're trying to do.