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Due to the LJ excitement yesterday, I went through and archived my favorite drabbles and then sent Cave Canem (otherwise known as the Trading Card porn) to Kansas and Leviathan. It's not my best work, but I'm glad that it'll be archived somewhere.

I seriously need a vacation. I just tried to edit a quote because I couldn't imagine that I'd written something so awkward, and then realized that it was someone else's quote and I had to keep it. This is partially my fault, and partially the fault of my boss who is only now laying in the copy I wrote three months ago. He was mad at the client because they hadn't paid us yet. I understand that, but they're my favorite client, and the time delay makes a lot of my copy irrelevant, so now I have to rewrite and reedit vast chunks of the articles, so the fact that I'm less than familiar with copy I wrote is a little more excusible.

[livejournal.com profile] shaye and [livejournal.com profile] whitelight1 and many others have really beautiful journal designs. Can anyone give me tips on how to spruce mine up, taking into consideration my technology blind spots - like I have yet to make a completely successful post to either Leviathan or the Leviathan mailing list without something being wonky, and that trying to install Yahoo! Messenger made me weepy with frustration- and my lack of Photoshop access. I could ask the design department to help me, but then I'd have to explain why.

Date: 2003-07-29 04:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electricland.livejournal.com
[livejournal.com profile] howto has some spiffy tutorials, and there's always the FAQ.

If you want to play around with your colours to start off with, there's a nice table of 'em here: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/

The problem is that every LJ layout uses the colour settings a bit differently. But good luck.

Date: 2003-07-29 04:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elishavah.livejournal.com
Livejournal has it's own special code, just like Blogger does and other blog/journal applications, but basically it's web design, and at the heart of all web design is a dirty little secret: outright plagiarism.

Go to sites you like, Shaye's, WhiteLight's, heck, National Geographic, and (if you're on IE) go to "View/Source." That will pop up the code for that page. Look at the code for a couple of sites, notice the patterns, copy chunks and play with it.

I'm a big fan of using Notepad and simply saving the text document as a .html file. Makes it easy to edit and then just click and test. But others have special apps they like, and I've got no idea what LJ uses.

That may be more than you wanted to know...

Date: 2003-07-29 07:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spoonishly.livejournal.com
Well, thanks for the kind words on my layout.

Believe me, I am not technological at all.

I used the FAQ and the How To Journal, whose address is given in the FAQ(I can't remember) and then went by trial and error.

All my layout stuff is typed in the override section in the Modify Journal page.

I know LJ just implemented a new Style 2 journal style that seems to give more freedom to LJ users as well.

If you need any help, feel free to toss me an email.

Date: 2003-07-29 11:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fourteenlines.livejournal.com
Stock.xchng rules. (This is the first site Elishavah referenced above.) That's where the picture on my LJ currently comes from. Photoshop is really outstanding - I got my copy on eBay for $50 and use it all the time. But if you don't have access, you can still do some pretty good stuff - [livejournal.com profile] themoonbar, for example, doesn't have Photoshop but still does some kickass icons and manips. You'd have to ask her what program she uses.

The LJ code is freakin' crazy, man. I ended up creating a test style based on the "Refried Paper" style and changing the colors and fonts. But you have to have a leeeeeettle bit of an idea what's going on with the CSS on Refried Paper if you wanna change most of that.

Probably the easiest one to change would be "Punquin Elegant" - figure out what colors you want, mess around with it, maybe create a background pattern to use, and then make a banner to stick up at the top.

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