Ne LJ Nav Menus

[sireesanwar]

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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Re: *butts in*

[london_fan]

Yes, the old design is still thee, too! I did a literal headdesk when I realized the full implication for all my layouts. That is the real nightmare about this change in my opinion. At this point I'm actually glad I never got around to publicly share my layouts, because then I'd feel obligated to "fix" them now, but how if people see different versions of the navbar, depending on their choice of page design?!

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!" ;)

Re: *butts in*

[sireesanwar]

LOL Screw it... snorts.

Re: *butts in*

[london_fan]

Hee, you couldn't know it, but this comment actually gave me the final push to go through with it and make those icons!

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.

Re: *butts in*

[sireesanwar]

LOL Okay I took the first one and I think I have to use it.

Re: *butts in*

[fueschgast]

But aren't the old and new navigation strips different from each other (one is a div, the other is in a header tag, also they have different class names - at least the last time I looked) and it should be possible to make layouts work well with both version?

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.

Re: *butts in*

[london_fan]

It should be possible, and I think you just made a little lightbulb go off in my head about how I might try to fix my layouts to accommodate both versions. Thanks!

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.