Which style to choose?
Hello everybody. I’m in need of an advice choosing a style.
I will try to summarize what I’m looking for.
- It shall produce semantic HTML. The journal title in , post titles in , no tables in sight whatsoever. Structural
s where applicable, with a rich assortment of classes available for styling via CSS. - Ideally, XHTML 1.0 Strict or HTML 4.01 Strict. Practically, I don’t mind if it is declared transitional but does not make use of presentational HTML markup.
- It shall allow me to discard all the predefined styling and apply my own CSS.
- It shall not be modified by the LJ staff too frequently, that I could set it up once and forget. (Case in point: the otherwise sensible Cuteness Attack style has recently grown a conditional comment that sets #content { margin-top: -660px; } for IE6 and IE7, which, in the absence of the default styling, makes the top post unreadable and the whole journal ugly. Once I was told about the problem, I fixed it by adding a margin-top: 0px !important to my custom CSS, but I really wish such sudden and difficult-to-notice-in-Firefox changes did not happen.)
- It shall let allow customization of the date and time formats, or offer ISO YYYY-mm-dd and 24h HH:mm as options.
I understand that my requests would be best answered by the raw S2 customization facilities, but I am not using a paid account and do not plan on paying for what I consider to be basic features.