another LJ refugee seeking better layouts

[lolmac]

God, I hope this works.

I have been trying to reply to individual comments, and apologise individually, and I have not been able to get a reply to post, so, although I know I should apologise to each of you individually, I am going to have to place this in the post itself.

I'm sorry.  I can say that I'm very tired and stressed, which I am, but the truth is -- I was rude and out of line, and I put my foot in it.  I'm sorry.


Hi there. *waves* I've just been through the available DW layouts, and I hate them all, except for some that I merely don't like. Way too much empty space (eek, it looks like the new LJ comments pages!), colours that bother my eyes, strange all-cappiness, etc. Unfortunately, although I have mad skillz in some areas, I don't know how to do custom styles or css, and I have a bit too much on my plate to attempt to learn it right now.

Instead, I'm going to be terribly shabby and shallow and try to bribe someone to help me.

On LJ, I used the following layouts:

Bluetiful, a Components theme, on lolmac
Desert Fire, a Minimalism theme, on bethinexile
Writer's Block Powder, an Expressive theme, on macgyverdeleted
"rdadailylayout", a customised version of Smooth Sailing, on rda_daily

I will give a year's Paid account DW points to anyone who can do a reasonable replica of these layouts (a year's time for each layout). If you're able to make the layout available to DW generally, I'll be especially happy, because that will hopefully gladden the hearts of more refugees.

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[chagrined]

You can do not only a reasonable replica of these layouts on DW, but an exact replica of any S2 style. :) See my layout, for example, which is an Expressive layout. I ported the S2 style sheet over from LJ. It takes a little bit of tweaking but is not too bad. I'm trying to remember where I originally found the tutorial for doing that when I did it... Basically, the complications are, there are some variable names that are changed slightly from LJ to DW (so you might have to do a find+replace), and there are some things that don't exist on DW, like content flagging and sponsored content, so if code for that shows up in your layout (for example, content flagging does show up in Expressive) you might have to delete it to get the style to properly compile.

Here, I did a google search and I don't remember which guide I used when I did it (and like I said, that guide wasn't perfect and I had to figure some things out for myself, but it was a good starting point), and here are some resources:
http://starlit.dreamwidth.org/272.html (this one seems to go into a lot of detail!)
http://phoenix.dreamwidth.org/610.html (oh, maybe this is the one I used, which is less detailed)
eta: oh and actually, I see as I'm scrolling down my dwircle, see also the previous entry in this very comm, as well as http://dw-styles.dreamwidth.org/5062.html which was posted in a comment reply there