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

[rabies]

One other question, I've gotten this layout to do pretty much everything that I wanted to do, but I can't get my background image to show up. I'm not using any custom CSS, just trying to use the layout's setup to do so.

[branchandroot]

Hmm, yeah that looks like a bug. Your image is in there, but #canvas has a background color that's covering it up. If you want to do this through the wizard, you might try deleting the canvas color (I think that's an option, it's been a while since I looked). Or you could add:

#canvas { background: transparent; }

to the Custom CSS box.

[branchandroot]

Wait, no, wait, it's going to be more complicated than that. *frowns* Let me poke at this. I'm going to have to put a bug in on it, so there won't be an instant fix, but I think I know what needs to happen.

[rabies]

No worries on how fast. Thank you for checking into it for me! I thought I was going crazy.