DW base stylesheets?

[carisma_sensei]

Hi! I've been creating layouts for LJ and DW for years. I've been using Transmogrified and Tabula Rasa mainly (and also Practicality lately).

I was wondering how people get the base stylesheets to create under other styles? Is there a place or certain way to do so? Because it feels like I'm the only one out of the loop xD

I love creating layouts for DW and love it when people enjoy them, so I want to branch out a bit! Any and all help is appreciated. Thank you!

Comments

[musyc]

I've been creating layouts for LJ and DW for years.

And you make some gorgeous ones, too. :D

The public layers are under advanced customization. They're over here: https://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layerbrowse

Pick a layout and then go to raw source code. I think that's what you're looking for.

[carisma_sensei]

Omg thanks for such a compliment!! It means a lot to me even though it's an obscure hobby hahaha.

THANK YOU IMMENSELY! You solved my doubts with this. Can't wait to start creating, I may end up making a layout just tonight hahaha.

[momijizukamori]

Additionally to what musyc said, just so you're not confused - a lot of our layouts use Tabula Rasa as a base, so they don't have to reimplement a ton of basic stuff over again. All those layers have TR stuck on to the top of the file, and then the layout-specific stuff below it.

[carisma_sensei]

Thanks for the information! I guessed everything on top was something like that. Now I know! ^^

[carisma_sensei]

Just to clarify, when I want to make a, say, Venture style layout... What would I need for that? Do I need the whole raw code, or only a part of it?

[momijizukamori]

so, it depends how you want to go about it - you could apply Venture to a journal, and then just work in the custom CSS field, or if you want to play around down in the guts of things more, you can go to the advanced layers page, scroll to the bottom, create a new top-level layout layer based on core version 2, and paste aaaaall the code from the layer source in there, then click save and compile (I think you may have to rename like one of the variables? The compiler will complain and tell you what it is, I unfortunately can't remember). Then you can make edits to that copy instead.

[carisma_sensei]

I just want to make a layout out of the style, like I usually do for Tabula Rasa or Transmogrified ^^'' I never touch layers! I always just untick the "use custom layout's stylesheet" and add my own. But with the others, since I don't have my own, that's why I'm looking for it, to be able to edit and make layouts out of it^^

[momijizukamori]

Hmm, in that case, you're probably better off just not unticking that box. Most of the Tabula Rasa-based styles only differ from TR in the additional CSS (and in some cases, the ability to put the navlinks in the header instead of the sidebar). A small few add a little bit more (eg, Librarian's Dream has some stuff to print the userpics at a smaller size without distorting them) but it's mostly all CSS.