foxfirefey: A fox colored like flame over an ornately framed globe (0)
foxfirefey ([personal profile] foxfirefey) wrote in [community profile] style_system 2020-01-30 12:42 am (UTC)

Sweet! Okay, first question first: how much verisimilitude to the current style are we after? That is, what are the most important parts of your style to preserve and how close are we aiming to exact replication? We can get the colorways + basic layout without doing very much custom work at all, just using the wizard. If you want to go further than that, we can then start delving into tweaking the CSS to match your current layout more closely.

I think I have found two suitable candidate core2 styles that could serve as decent bases:

Dusty Foot -- example of your journal in it
Transmogrified -- example of your journal in it

What they each have the ability to do that your current style does:

* They have the ability to do the two column layout with the header above that matches the width of those two columns
* They have the menu between that header and those two columns

Additionally, they have some abilities that your current style doesn't have:

* They make attempts to work on mobile!
* That edit link you wanted is there
* You'll have access to a bunch of different side widgets like the search one if you want that can all be rearranged how you like them

You have a paid account and that means that no matter what we do with this, if you decide it doesn't work out you will be able to revert back, your list of styles is here and take note of the one you are currently using:

https://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/styles

If you tell me which base style you'd like to start with--ignore things like color/borders which are all very easy to change, keep an eye out for the "bones" of the style; I tried to pick examples that sort of matched your color feel a bit but obviously it's not exact.

Additionally, know that while we are working on this, you can switch back to your current style using that advanced styles page when you're not doing work on it so that it's not disrupting your DW experience the whole time we're hammering it out.


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