LJ skinning...

[gossymer]

Heya guys! Been a while since a layout post but have a few things in the works :) Though I did get distracted yesterday by another bit of shiny.

boundary posted a userscript HERE to mintyapple for replacing all the old mini-icons all over the LJ website with prettier stuff (at least for firefox and opera users XD)

I'd forgotten about ljskins and customizing lj styles,

Comments

[dharmavati]

That looks sleek and lovely! :D Sadly, I primarily use Chrome these days, so :(

As for the navbar, would it possible to have a gradient like you have at the top of the skin (where the username is)?

[gossymer]

I wonder if Chrome will be able to use userscripts at some point >_> If it does, then \o/

There's a very subtle black/grey gradient on the navbar but I think I could make it darker :)

I keep thinking of various design elements to add but then I realise then focus would become less on the menu options and more on the designs around it D: I could do a mockup or two on photoshop and let people here pick which they'd be more interested it >_> Yeah, am a sucker for polls XD

[gossymer]

By themes, do you mean color schemes? Since most of the images are partially transparent and there are only a few image tiles for backgrounds, I don't think that would be a problem :) Probably need to figure out with colorschemes would be best though, lol

[gossymer]

Y'know, I always thought it would be pretty hard to go wrong with orange - until I saw Insane Journal's sitescheme a few years back *shudder* But a bright orange would be lovely for the summer :)

And I'd kinda go crazy with green actually (leaves and stuff) so if I don't do one now, I'll probably do one later on XD

Though for summer, I wonder if I could work in duo tones (blues and oranges or greens and browns or something) Will play around :3

[sleepingfingers]

I am completely in love with your versions. Very sleek and lovely. Just for the comments, though, I would personally prefer the background color for the info (i.e. light blue for LJ) to be something other than white -- maybe a soft color for whichever colorscheme chosen.

As for colorschemes, I like the one you have here very very much. :)

[gossymer]

With the multiple colorschemes, I could probably color the info sections to match - and for the monochrome version I could either go light grey for the comment info or do super-light grey and darker borders ^^

I just wish LJ had formatted the comment tables in such a way that the entry titles appeared UNDER the username and date instead of above (which causes a weird gap between entries since comments don't normally have titles)

[sleepingfingers]

and for the monochrome version I could either go light grey for the comment info or do super-light grey and darker borders

That'd be awesome. To have pretty comment pages without having to set to customized comment pages would make me so happy. (It's easier to read fics in the default lj comment page. :))

Oh yes. That's really frustrating. :/

[liam22]

Oh that is so cool. The gray and black; it would look really nifty with pretty much any color you decided on.

[gossymer]

So mainly, stick to monochrome and offer different link colors etc. in place of the blue link formatting?

[turtle_goose]

I definitely love blue/brown schemes...they're so relaxing. Blue and gray would be pretty too.

Your version looks super neat; I'd just miss my default icon though.