In this tutorial, I am going to break down much of the CSS used in the Expressive style. I have not included every single class in the following breakdown, but instead focused on the "common" and most easily explained classes. (If you want a quick visual, it's in this tutorial at a glance.)

The Expressive style has a lot of markup! You will ( Read more... )

Since a number of these questions have come up over time, I decided to try to compile all the issues into one post.

( How do I change the header image? )

Questions about the interactions of "theme" and "user" layers seem to crop up all the time, as well as "where do I put my CSS changes", so I thought I'd write a tutorial on how to consolidate things.
UPDATE (11/05/07): This tutorial has been updated and expanded to reflect the changes to the Customize Journal section and include directions on ( Read more... )

Expressive Explained

( x-posted from lj_design)
Here are some things that may be helpful to know if you want to customize Expressive.
( column variations )

Here is a stylesheet that combines the elements from the various theme stylesheet and theme-variation stylesheets into one, with all the extra Vox stuff stripped out. This is a useful starting point if you're creating a completely new layout, not just making color/font/header changes. (You might also want to read this first)
( CSS under cut for you to copy/paste/save )

This is a basic introduction to CSS. I assume, here, that you already know some basics of html, like what a div is and how an image tag looks, because if you don't that's the first thing you need to learn and that's a different guide. This guide deals with what CSS does, the parts of it, and what you're seeing when people give you CSS code to ( Read more... )

This tutorial will explain to anyone new to S2 how to create custom themes and layers and what they are used for. I will not go into the details of S2 code itself. This requires a paid or permanent account. Hopefully I've aimed this at the right level - if anything is not clear, please let me know so I can fix it.

( Creating Custom Themes & Layers )