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.

Comments

[foxfirefey]

Hmm, I do have an 80% finished mimic of Component (that's not table based) I've called Building Blocks:

http://foxfirefey.dreamwidth.org/?s2id=225804

[emptyego]

I know this comment is like, a million years old, but... QwQ is there any way you could share your layout? ♥ I would love to use it!

[foxfirefey]

Well, it's not finished as I said, BUT here is the layout source:

https://github.com/foxfirefey/dw-layouts/blob/master/layouts/buildingblocks/layout.s2

And here is the theme source that you see there:

https://github.com/foxfirefey/dw-layouts/blob/master/layouts/buildingblocks/themes/classic.s2

It's actually been so long that it might be fun to convert it to Grid layout CSS and make it mobile friendly in the process!

[emptyego]

Thank you so so so much for replying to me!! :'D And for sharing! I wasn't sure if you would see my comment, or if you were still active on here. Eee! I'm really excited to try this out now! ♥ :D

Back when I used LJ full-time for my blogging needs, Component was my go-to for 90% of my layouts (and when I couldn't afford paid time, Flexible Squares), and I've been feeling super nostalgic coming back to the S2 system on DW. I was sad they didn't have Component, or any sort of option like it by default. I tried making my own duplicate and it didn't turn out so good lol;; (It's been.....a very, very long time since I've played with S2 code.) So I'm super happy you were able to share this with me. Your work is awesome! ♥