I'm wondering if there is a way to edit the new Nav Menu's? Just colors would be good. I don't want to alter them fundamentally but just the hideous colors that are clashing with my LJs.
I had come up with some coding on my own which worked all of a weekend and then my LJ went haywire...
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Like you, I hope to ultimately be able to change at least the colours, but I decided to wait until LJ stops changing things around so much.
Another thing to keep in mind is that this navbar really does change its look a lot, depending on the device you're using. For example, it's switching to data-url images for some links on smaller screens. I'm still struggling to change these tbh. I already failed to do so with the new speech balloon in the "question of the day" feature (.flatquestionjournal).
Sorry if that comment isn't very helpful at the moment, but I just wanted to let you know that you're not alone in this struggle and that I might be able to help, but later... maybe someone else is willing to tackle this mess sooner, though!
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Anyways, thank you for the quick response and if you do figure it all out when they stop changing things... please share because I really want to change the way this stuff is looking too.
Many thanks!
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That's really the one thing I find most annoying: there isn't just one single look for all journals now; people who use the old design still see the old small conrolstrip whereas people using the new design see the bulky new navbar. So you'll have to consider both groups now if you're making layouts!
Don't worry, I'll come back here if work something out and let you know.
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I feel your pain.
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Thanks. To look on the bright side: as long as LJ forces me to adapt my layouts again and again my coding skills won't go completely rusty! ;)
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I've checked some of the layouts on my comms and my journal and they appear to be the same with the old design and the new which is great. However, on a couple the old nav bar has a gap above it which at this point I don't even care about. The frustration level is so high.
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If I'm not completely mistaken you were one of the people who proposed a fix to the gap below the (old) navbar that went something like this:
.lj-view-friends { margin-top: -23px; }.
People still using that code most likely will see a screwed up navbar on their friends pages... just saying. I had worked out a different fix for my own journal, but not with CSS but rather by changing a function in my theme layer, so the margin change would only apply if the viewer is the owner of the journal, since the gap was only appearing for the journal owner. In my case that specific 'code fix' didn't work well with the new navbar, so I suspect that people using your fix from above might experience similar issues with screwed-up navbars on their friends pages.
Just mentioning it, in case that issue might have come up among your followers! :)
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I think if anyone comes to me with issues... I'll let them know.
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Great icon, btw! I should paper my wall with that. Stay calm, stay calm!
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Well, I had already deleted all the CSS pertaining to the old design at that point, so I added it again and switched back to the old design to check how that looks with the added space on top to accommodate the new navbar (spoiler alert: not good). If you want to check it out for yourself you can switch back to the old design in your settings here (link at the bottom). If you do so, an additional banner will appear at the top with a link back to the new design, so you can actually switch back and forth, even if it's a bit complicated.
Thanks! Just today I was actually tempted to modify this icon by adding a big red stamp print, saying "Screw it!" ;)
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Anyway, if you want to link to the poll on your layout site(s), please do so. I hope it will give us layout makers some interesting input about what design people use and how they deal with the new navigation menu.
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What bothers me more is the that all the ad containers are now there even though only one kind of placement can be active at a time. That's really screwing with some of my layouts.
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OMG, I didn't have time to look into this issue yet, but I think you just gave me the explanation why some of my layouts suddenly looked screwed up in IE after this change. I use Adblock on Firefox, so things look just fine there, but everything is a couple of pixels off in IE. Additional ad containers might explain this. I'll definitely look into this.
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Well, of course you're not! No layout maker is or should be obliged to do so. With all the recent LJ changes it's close to impossible.
It's still something I'd like to do for my layout on my own journal. I just want it to look "right" for everyone and not have things look weird, cut off or overlap for some people, you know?
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