Comments | mizkit: design woes

mizkit

design woes

Feb 02, 2007 11:06

After nearly a year of keeping my journal on livejournal, I gotta say, god *damn* am I tired of this design ( Read more... )

design, lj_geek

Comments 11

ambar February 2 2007, 11:17:19 UTC

A quick galumph through the S2 styles turns up "Expressive", which has two columns and is supposed to be CSS-controlled....

mizkit February 2 2007, 11:21:52 UTC

It's the supposed to be that I'm having trouble with. My ability to cope with their CSS classes seems to be extremely limited.

mizkit February 2 2007, 12:23:01 UTC

...you may be a genius. o.o

ambar February 2 2007, 12:44:17 UTC

My momma always thought so. :-)

anonymous February 2 2007, 13:31:28 UTC

Fwiw, I read thru Mizkit.com and I LOVE your look and quotes in the top left corner.

Sorry you're frustrated,

tam

mizkit February 2 2007, 13:41:57 UTC

Yeah. If I can't get something to work with the quotes I'll probably end up using the same old thing, because at least it works, even if I"m not happy with it. :P But I like the quotes.

sanguinepen February 2 2007, 14:00:57 UTC

I've never been able to figure out the css stuff either, and I design websites when I'm not writing. I have discovered that Flexible Squares offers a lot of nice features, and you can have a pretty banner with it. I'm pretty good at building graphics and stuff. Let me know if I can help you out. My two LJs use Flecible squares with banners I made myself on top - goth_huntress and jenn_moffatt.

mizkit February 2 2007, 14:05:38 UTC

Yeah, I think Flexible Squares is the nicest of the ones they've got. What really insanely frustrates me is the inability to genuinely customize the sidebar with HTML or images or whatever. Argh. Or 3 columns with the FS layout, which really is basically /nice/.

sanguinepen February 2 2007, 14:16:52 UTC

I've seen some people do it with images. They do it with layers, but last time someone tried to tell me how I didn't really pay attention. http://community.livejournal.com/s2layers/profile - maybe these guys can help you out?

Good luck! Is puppy OK?

silkblade February 2 2007, 17:01:48 UTC

hey, my customized style is FS too. :) So are the ones I designed for Angie.

I used to have a sidebar programmed into the page with HTML but when they changed to S2, I had to get rid of it. The links thing works for me but it took me a while to find at first. I don't understand why it's hidden.

I keep looking at my website and journal and thinking I should redesign them but I haven't had any inspiration on what to do with them. Well, I thought that back when I would have had the time to do something about it.

janne February 2 2007, 22:49:07 UTC

OMG, it's full of stars!