Yeah, my own LJ style is ugly as fuck, but I got lazy and just decided to leave it as is, and it fits my purposes for clean reading.
I'm pretty sure that they've made it so that you can do your own css overrides for every single style they have offered, so if you're comfortable with that you've got a lot to play with. You can change the widths and hide sections you don't like, and well, do pretty much anything to change the way your layout looks. You just need to learn css.
(My own is a whole new style written with s2, but that's because I wanted more than to just override the layout, I wanted to override how it works.)
I've been sort of thinking of you, here. Here's some minor tweaks to at least fix the things I noticed you ranting about. The following code will make it so that the "designed by", "powered by", and "tags" sections will not appear. I haven't checked out this particular theme, so I'm assuming that it's not an easy checkbox in "Custom Options". It will also make it so that between each post there is a black line that's 2px in width. (You can change the color by replacing #000000 with another hex color.)
Okay, so under Custom Options, you want to add your own custom css. Leave the base stylesheet, you just want to add some codes on top of that.
In the large text box, place the following text, between the lines. Save your changes, and see how it looks.
I'm pretty sure that they've made it so that you can do your own css overrides for every single style they have offered, so if you're comfortable with that you've got a lot to play with. You can change the widths and hide sections you don't like, and well, do pretty much anything to change the way your layout looks. You just need to learn css.
(My own is a whole new style written with s2, but that's because I wanted more than to just override the layout, I wanted to override how it works.)
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Can't I hire someone to do it???
/whine
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(I'd offer myself, but I shouldn't even be reading LJ right now, never mind playing around with it.)
There are a couple of communities too, but I can't remember where they are or if they're decent.
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You're sweet.
Maybe when the urge to change the design catches up whit me again, I'll look for proper communities and help.
Until then, I'm going with: whatever.
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Okay, so under Custom Options, you want to add your own custom css. Leave the base stylesheet, you just want to add some codes on top of that.
In the large text box, place the following text, between the lines. Save your changes, and see how it looks.
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.designed-widget, .powered-widget, .categories-widget {
display: none;
}
.post-asset {
padding-bottom: 2px 0;
border-bottom: 2px #000000 solid;
}
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Let me know how that goes. I'm mostly trying to show you some options :)
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