style_system | Looking for some layout help

Hi,
I recently ported Flexible Squares + a layout from livejournal to use at

3weeks4dreamwidth. Try as I might, I'm having a hard time adjusting some things, and since I'm on a bit of a deadline (wanted to start promoting on the 1st) I hoped somebody here might have the answers.

My two big issues are:
~~the font in the comments is tiny~~
the first line of every comment is partially covered up by the poster's icon, as is the second like of entry titles.

Would also love it if:
the entry titles could be links
have icons link to the user's userpics when clicked
change the color of italics
get rid of the calendar at the top

CSS

/* Cleaned CSS: */
      /* Title: Playtime
Creator: Brutal at mixedfeeling
Style: Flexible Squares S2 */
 
 
BODY{
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
background-color: #C0ADDB;
background-image: url("http://i.imgur.com/KbcW9p9.png"); 
background-repeat: repeat;
background-position: ;
background-attachment: fixed;
text-align: left;
font-size: 11pt;
color: #404040;
font-family: "arial", sans-serif;
}
 
a, a:link, a:visited {
font-family: "calibri" Helvetica, sans-serif;
cursor: default;
color: #fe6b6b;
text-transform: ;
text-decoration: none;
}
 
a:hover{
font-family: "calibri" Helvetica, sans-serif;
cursor: default;
color: #f4476c;
font-weight: none;
text-transform: ;
letter-spacing: 0px;
text-decoration: none;
}

b{
color: #fe6b6b;
}

I{
color: #d7ff6c;
}

s{
color: #bb37f9;
}
 
blockquote {
margin: 5px 5px; 
padding: 4px; 
color: #764e37;
font-size: 12pt;
background: #dff2ff;
background-repeat: repeat;
text-align: justify;
}
 
#content {
width: 650px;
background: #fff;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px;
border-left: 6px solid #7F94B0;
border-right: 6px solid #7F94B0;
}
 
#maincontent {
margin: 5px 0px 0px 0px;
}
 
/* sidebar */
 
#sidebar {
width: 590px;
margin-left: 15px;
padding: 15px;
background: #fff;
border-bottom: dashed #d7ff6c 1px;
color: #939393;
font-family: calibri;
font-size: 11pt;
line-height: 10pt;
text-align: justify;
float: center;
}
 
div#sidebar a, div#sidebar a:link, div#sidebar a:visited {
font-size: 11pt;
font-family: calibri;
color: #939393;
text-decoration: none;
}
 
div#sidebar a:hover {
font-size: 11pt;
font-family: calibri;
text-decoration: none;
color: #000000;
}
 
 
.defaultuserpic {
display: none;
float:left;
margin: 0px 5px 0 5px;
background-color: #edd4cc;
}

.sbarheader {
padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px;
}

.sbarbody {
width: 200px;
padding: 0px 3px 0px 3px;
}

.sbarbody2 {
position: absolute; 
width: 380px; 
padding: 0 10px 5px 10px;
margin-left: 220px;
}

#sidebar_tags {
margin-top: -110px;
position: absolute; 
width: 170px; 
height: 100px;
margin-left: 190px;
overflow: auto;
display: none;
}

#sidebar_tags a{
display:block;
font-family: "georgia", Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}

table.calendar {
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
}

.sbarcalendar {
padding: 1px;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
background: #FEFEFE;
text-align: right;
font-family: "arial", Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #999999;
font-size: 8pt;
}

.sbarcalendarposts {
padding: 1px;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
background: #dddddd;
text-align: right;
font-family: "arial", Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #73c8cb;
font-size: 8pt;
}

ul.sbarlist {
margin-left: 0px;
list-style: none;
padding-left: 0px;
}

li.sbaritem {
padding: 5px 3px 5px 5px;
list-style: none;
background-color: ;
background-image: url();
		background-repeat: no-repeat;
border-bottom: 1px #eeeeee solid;
}

li.sbaritem a{
font-family: "georgia", Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 20px;
}

li.sbaritem:hover {
font-family: "georgia", Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
background-image: url();
		background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

li.sbartitle {
width: 190px;
list-style: none;		
margin-top: 0px;
margin-left: -3px;
text-align: left;
font-weight: normal;
padding: 10px 5px 10px 15px;
color: #ffffff;
font-family: "arial" Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 8pt;
background: #000000;
border-bottom: 3px solid #f1f1f1;
border-top: 3px solid #f1f1f1;
text-transform: uppercase;
letter-spacing: 0px;
display: none;
}

ul.ljtaglist li  {
padding: 0px;
margin: 5px;
list-style: decimal-leading-zero;
list-style-position: outside;
}

.nav a {border-bottom: 0px solid #e6dcd6; border-left: 3px solid #1d1d1d; color: #555555; display: inline; font-family: tahoma; font-size: 9pt; text-transform: lowercase; padding: 3px; line-height: 10px; }
.nav a:hover {color: #9f8449; text-decoration: none; }
.nav br {display: none;}
 
/* header, footer */
 
#header { 
  width: 610px;
background:#d7ff6c;
  padding: 20px;
  text-transform: lowercase;
  text-align: center;   
  font-size: 10pt; 
font-family: "calibri" Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: none;
  color: #fff;
  }
 
#footer { 
  width: 630px;
  padding: 10px; 
  text-align: right; 
  text-transform: lowercase; 
  letter-spacing: 0px; 
  font-size: 10pt; 
  color: #e2e7e1;
background: #fe6b6b;
  z-index: 100; 
font-family: "calibri" Helvetica, sans-serif;
  }
 
#header a {
font-size: 12pt;
color: #000000;
}

div#header a[href$=".livejournal.com/"] {
color: #fff;
background: #00c1d5;
padding: 5px;
}
 
div#header a[href*="/calendar"] {
color: #fff;
background: #fe6b6b;
padding: 5px;
}

div#header a[href*="/friends"] {
color: #fff;
background: #bb37f9;
padding: 5px;
}

div#header a[href*="/profile"]{
color: #fff;
background: #00c1d5;
padding: 5px;
}	
 
div#footer a, div#footer a:link, div#footer a:visited { 
font-family: "calibri" Helvetica, sans-serif;
  color: #fff; 
  font-size: 10pt; 
  padding: 0px 3px 3px 3px;
  text-transform: ;
  border-top: 0px solid #d3e2eb;
  }
 
div#header li.view:hover, div#header a:hover {
background-color:#232323; 
color:#ffffff;
} 
 
div#footer a:hover {
font-family: "calibri" Helvetica, sans-serif;
  color: #000; 
  font-size: 10pt; 
  padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px;
  text-transform: ;
  }
 
ul.navheader { 
  padding: 0; 
  margin: 0; }
 
ul.navheader li  {
	display: inline;
 }
 
div#header li.view { 
font-size: 12pt;
background: #00c1d5;
padding: 5px;
  }
 
#footer .viewing { 
  display:; 
  }
 
ul.navfooter {
  padding: 0px;
  margin: 0px;
  }
 
ul.navfooter li {
  display: inline;
  margin: 0 0px 0 0px;
  }
 
.clearfoot {
  display: none;
  clear: both;
  }
 
/* title, substitle */
 
.title	{
display: none;
margin-top: 0px;
padding: 5px;
text-align: center;
color: #24afd2;
font-family: "arial", sans-serif;
font-size: 24pt;
letter-spacing: 0pt;
line-height: 10pt;
}
 
.subtitle {
display: none;
text-align: left;
color: #FEFEFE;
font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif", sans-serif;
font-size: 1pt;
letter-spacing: 2pt;
}
 
/* tags page, tags */
 
.ljtaglist { 
list-style-type: none; 
padding: 0px; 
margin: -1px 20px 0px 20px; 
margin-left: 70px; width: 50%; 
text-transform: uppercase;
text-align: left; 
} 
 
.ljtaglist li { 
border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc; 
padding: 5px 2px 5px 20px; 
color: #888888; 
} 
 
H2 { 
margin: 30px 0px 10px 90px; 
text-align: left; 
padding: 2px 2px 2px 10px; 
line-height: 12px; 
font-weight: normal; 
font-style: italic; 
font-size: 12px; 
text-transform: uppercase;
letter-spacing: 0px; 
font-family: arial; 
color: #888888; 
background: url('') 0px 2px no-repeat; 
} 
 
ul.ljtaglist {
color: #bbb;
font-family: "arial", Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
padding: 8px 8px 8px 12px;
border: 0px solid #FEFEFE;
background: #FEFEFE;
text-align: left;
margin-right: auto;margin-left: auto; padding: 35px;
}
 
.ljtags {
margin-top: 12px;
padding: 4px;
color: #333;
font-size: 10pt;
font-weight: normal;
border-bottom: 1px solid #efefef;
background: url(REPLACE) 0px 7px no-repeat;
padding-left: 14px;
}
 
.ljtags a, .ljtags a:link, .ljtags a:visited {
color: #99668f;
font-size: 10pt;
text-transform: ;
font-weight: ;
}
 
 
/* subcontent, entry */
.subcontent {
padding: 0px; 
background: #fff;
}

.entry{
margin-left: 20px;
margin-right: 20px;
margin-top: 10px;
background: #ffffff;
color: #939393;
font-family: "Calibri" Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12pt;
text-align: justify;
}

.entry_text  {
background: #ffffff;
}
 
.entry ul li {
padding-left: 10px;
margin-left: 0px;
list-style: decimal-leading-zero;
list-style-position: outside;
}
 
.entry ol li {
padding-left: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
list-style: decimal-leading-zero;
list-style-position: outside;
}
 
/* userpic, userpic friends */
 
.userpic {
display: ;
position: relative;
float: left;
padding: 10px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-left: 6px;
margin-top: 48px;
z-index: 15;
background-color: transparent !important;
border: 0px solid #d4d4d4;
background-image: url('');
background-repeat: repeat;
border: 0px solid #f7f7f7;
}
 
.userpicfriends {
        position: relative;
        float: left;
        background-color: transparent !important;
        padding: 10px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-left: 6px !important;
        margin-top: 48px;
        z-index: 15;
        border: 0px solid #d4d4d4;
        text-align: right;
        font-family: "arial", sans-serif;
        font-size: 8pt;
        z-index: 15;
display: ;
        }
 
.userpic img, .userpicfriends img{ background:#bb37f9; padding:5px; border-width: 3px;
border-color: #bb37f9;
border-style: solid;
width: 75px;
height: 75px;}
 
 
.userpicfriends font {
color: #d6d5d5 !important;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
 
.userpicfriends {font-size: 3; align: left;}
 
.userpicfriends a{ display: ;}
 
.userpicfriends br {
display: block;
height: 0;
}
 
/* date, subject, comments, currents */
 
.date{
position: relative;
left: -100px;
text-align: left;
padding: 10px 0px 0px 0px;
color: #ccc;
font-family: "Trebuchet Ms" Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 8pt;
text-transform: uppercase;
letter-spacing: 1px;
}

.subject {
position: relative;
left: -100px;
padding-left: 0px;
padding-top:2px;
padding-bottom:12px;
margin-right: -10px;
font-weight: normal;
padding-bottom: 2px;
color: #939393;
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 14pt;
font-style: ;
letter-spacing: 0px;
text-align: left;
}
 
.subject a, .subject a:link, .subject a:visited {
font-family: Calibri;
color: #939393;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
 
.subject a:hover {
color: #999;
}
 
.datesubject {
margin-left: 15px;
margin-right: 15px;
padding: 0px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #EEE;
background-color: #ffffff;
}
 
 
.currents strong, .currentmood strong, .currentmusic .currentlocation, .ljtags strong {
color: #777777;
font-size: 9pt;
text-transform: ;
}
 
.currents, .currentmood, .currentmusic, .currentlocation {
color: #777777;
font-size: 9pt;
text-transform: ;
}
 
 
.currentlocation a, .currentlocation a:link, .currentlocation a:visited {
color: #4cb5d3;
font-size: 9pt;
text-transform: ;
}
 
.currentlocation a:hover, .ljtags a:hover {
color: #000000;
font-size: 9pt;
text-transform: ;
}
 
 
.currentlocation {
	height: 16px; 
	background: url('http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/9228/homee.gif') 4px 4px no-repeat;
padding-left: 18px;
	}
 
.currentmood {
	background: url('http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/5507/smilie.gif') 4px 4px no-repeat;
padding-left: 18px;
	}
 
.currentmusic {
	height: 18px; 
	background: url('http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2895/notee.gif') 4px 4px no-repeat;
padding-left: 18px;
	}
 
.comments {
background: #00c1d5;
font-family: "arial", sans-serif;
font-size: 12pt;
text-align: left;
font-weight: normal;
padding-top: 4px;
padding-bottom: 4px;
position: relative;
margin-top: 0px;
padding-left: 5px;
color: #f3f3f3;
text-transform:;
letter-spacing: 0px;
}
 
div.comments a, div.comments a:link, div.comments a:visited {
font-family: "calibri", sans-serif;
color: #fff;
text-transform: ;
}
 
div.comments a:hover {
color: #2d2d2d;
text-transform: ;
}
 
/* other */
 
.clear {
display: none;
height: 0px;
}
 
.skiplinks {
text-transform: lowercase;
text-align: center;
margin: 08px 0 08px 0;
padding: 12px;
color: #888888;
border: 1px solid #bbb;
background: #FDFDFD;
}
 
/* header */

.headerimage {
position: relative;
width: 650px;
height: 358px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 0px; 
background-image: url('https://goodbyebird.dreamwidth.org/file/111314.png'); 
background-repeat: no-repeat;
border-left: 6px solid #7F94B0;
border-right: 6px solid #7F94B0;
}
 
.separator {
background:transparent;
padding: 3px;
}
 
.clearfoot {
display: none;
}
 
/* comment page */
 
.datesubjectcomment {
background-color: #ffffff;
padding: 5px;
margin-top: 20px;
color: #c9c9c9;
}
 
.userpiccomment {
position: relative;
top: -10px;
padding: 4px;
margin: 0px 10px -20px 0px;
z-index: 15;
float: left;
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
background:#f8f8f8; 
}
 
.box {
clear: left;
color: #f8f8f8;
}
 
input, textarea {
background-color: #ffffff;
padding: 3px;
font-size: 12px;
font-family: "Georgia", sans-serif;
color: #333030;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
		}
 
textarea.textbox  {
width: 100% !important;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
 
.reply	{
position: relative;
margin: 20px 30px 10px 30px;
padding: 25px 10px 10px 10px;
text-align: left;
font-family: "Georgia", sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 125%;
background-color: #ffffff;
color: #3f3e3e;
}
 
.replytosubject {
font-weight: bold;
}
 
.commentreply {
position: relative;
margin: 10px;
font-size: 12px;
font-family: "Georgia", sans-serif;
color: #3f3e3e;
}
 
.commentbox {
padding: 10px;
margin: 10px;
background-color: #ffffff;
}
 
.commentboxpartial {
padding: 10px;
margin: 10px;
background-color: #ffffff;
}
 
.commentinfo {
background-color: #ffffff;
margin-top: 12px;
width: 100%;
}
 
.skiplinks {
text-align: center;
padding: 10px;
color: #888888;
background-color: #fff;
}
 
/* tiny icons */

/* Generated by Malionette's Tiny Icon Generator 
   http://malionette.net/generator/tinylite.html */

span.i-ljuser img[src*="img/userinfo.gif"] {width: 0 !important; height: 0 !important;
background: transparent url(http://i.imgur.com/2aJvs.png) no-repeat !important; padding: 16px 0 0 18px !important; }
span.i-ljuser img[src*="img/community.gif"] {width: 0 !important; height: 0 !important;
background: transparent url(http://i.imgur.com/vLyZg.png) no-repeat !important; padding: 16px 0 0 18px !important; }
img[src*="img/icon_protected.gif"] {width: 0 !important; height: 0 !important;
background: transparent url(http://i.imgur.com/U46yKUE.png) no-repeat !important; padding: 13px 0 0 12px !important; }

Many thanks for any help <3

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Not familiar enough with DW theme coding to figure out the rest offhand, but here's fixes for two things at least:

.commentreply {
position: relative;
margin: 10px;
font-size: 12px; <- increase this for comment font size (or remove this one line entirely)

I{
color: #d7ff6c; <- change this for italic colour

ETA: A bit of a hack, but adding "#sidebar_calendar { display: none; }" should hide the calendar area from view.

Edited 2022-03-30 15:51 (UTC)

Thanks so much! That takes care of the biggest issue <3

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