Ne LJ Nav Menus

[sireesanwar]

I'm wondering if there is a way to edit the new Nav Menu's? Just colors would be good. I don't want to alter them fundamentally but just the hideous colors that are clashing with my LJs.

I had come up with some coding on my own which worked all of a weekend and then my LJ went haywire...

Comments

[london_fan]

You ultimately can edit the new navbar, but I'd personally recommend to wait at least until LJ stops changing things around so much. They still want to add the filter function back to the old friends page with the next update. In the meantime they still seem to implement a lot of minor changes continually. I modified some code, too, but LJ changed the source code overnight, screwing up my whole layout, just like yours. So chances are that will happen again and again if you change the navbar at the moment (checking just now I detected two other new changes in the source code compared to less than two days ago

[sireesanwar]

That makes a lot of sense. It also messed with a journal that had a fixed header menu at the top of the screen. That is very frustrating.

Anyways, thank you for the quick response and if you do figure it all out when they stop changing things... please share because I really want to change the way this stuff is looking too.

Many thanks!

[london_fan]

Yeah, same here. I'm using various layouts on my journal and comms and they all work with different "header solutions". Some have simple headerimages, others have background-images turned into fake headers, so they all look(ed) messed-up in different ways. I've done some interim fixing by increasing the top-margin for now, so the new navbar isn't overlaying anything important anymore, but now people still using the old design are probably wondering about all the negative space there.

That's really the one thing I find most annoying: there isn't just one single look for all journals now; people who use the old design still see the old small conrolstrip whereas people using the new design see the bulky new navbar. So you'll have to consider both groups now if you're making layouts!

Don't worry, I'll come back here if work something out and let you know.

[sireesanwar]

OMG! I'm so mad at LJ for that. That is the most annoying thing I've ever heard. All those layouts! All that work. Grrrr.

I feel your pain.

[london_fan]

Aaaaand... we have LJ's much awaited update, making things ultimately more complicated. They chose to fix the missing friends page filter by adding the second bar to the friends page as well (as I feared, because it really didn't fit anywhere else).

So basically we're back to needing a different margin for .lj-view-friends than for the other journal pages. I won't hold my breath, though, for how long that solution will stay. ;)

I'm tempted to just set up the old controlstrip like LJ intends it to look (currently I have changed it significantly to match my layout and to get rid of superfluous links and pictograms) and let LJ add its bars and banners as they please, so they define the margins as needed. Guess that would ultimately screw up the various pages less! I don't even know at this point.

[sireesanwar]

Man I'm reporting this because it is just disgusting. And they don't need another navbar. They don't even need the secondary navbar on our journals. That doesn't make any sense!

Nah... I'm going to bug them because I've typically gotten responses and I can work with that.

[london_fan]

Please keep us posted about their answer. Well, I really don't see why they'd need two bars. I guess adding yet another drop-down menu to the first bar would screw with all their calculations about the space they need for each element? I don't even know, I just think that a height of 103px is too much for a nav bar, especially for people using smaller screens.

Well, the secondary navbar on our journals appear whenever someone else is watching our journal, so our "visitors" see more options concerning our journals (add friend, send v-gift etc.). Yeah, I just wish they would have found a way to keep it simpler with a single bar.

[sireesanwar]

Will do.

I agree. I don't think we need this bar but I can't expect them to understand that. I just informed them of the friends page glitch and hopefully they will do something about it.

I noticed that. If I go to your journal there are several options on the secondary bar but when at mine there is just Calendar. Odd.

Single bar would be great. I mean I liked the secondary bar on comms but not on our journals.