tutorial: smooth sailing topbars

[daemon]

NOTE: Before you begin reading, please note that this is an advanced tutorial, and you should not attempt doing any of the below with your layout unless you are comfortable with CSS.

Also, if you simply want to grab the code and get out of here, see the Appendixes to each section. I've written out every step so the interested can fully understand

Comments

[moviemarathon]

Really amazing and helpful! Thanks for building up such a tutorial =)

[deej]

There is a vast amount of incredibly well explained information here. Not only was I inspired to play with Smooth Sailing after have only a quick browse through your SS guide, but I then proceeded to complete my very first LJ layout using the base stylesheet and your guides to create a community I'm about to launch with some friends! (Here's the layout in a testjournal if you're interested in seeing what your guides helped me create djtestcomm). I'm especially excited about how flexible all those free-text sidebar boxes turned out to be! (As used for the sub-banner and Post!, Join!, Rss! buttons.) Had to add some new positioning rules and z-index back the sidebar blocks though, as they were ghosting over teh top of the journal nav.

Anyway anyway anyway, long story short: I've had an absolute blast building the layout the past few days, and it's all thanks to you. Cheers! ♥