Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[proseac]

I am a total noob when it comes to styles. I am another LJ refugee *waves* and 'over there' I use a style called "Agent Orange". I have no idea whether it's S1 or S2 (don't even know what those are, TBH) or what other style it might be based on, but I'd like to replicate it on DW as best I can.

Can someone point me in the direction of a good, SIMPLE tutorial on how to do this? I found this one but it's all greek to me, I'm afraid: http://starlit.dreamwidth.org/272.html I've seen people referring to this as a "basic" tutorial so that kind of scares me! LOL But I'm determined to give this a go, if I can. I don't know where to find the coding for my LJ layout either.

Sorry to request such detailed hand-holding...if there's another comm for which this request is better suited, please feel free to direct me there.

Thanks in advance!

Comments

[stormy]

I just looked at Agent Orange from Livejournal, and it is a Three Column layout theme. Generally, Livejournal themes are imported as S1, but I haven't seen anyone use Three Column before. However, if you'd like to give it a shot - the raw source code is located here: http://www.livejournal.com/customize/advanced/layersource.bml?id=4472558 . There is a list of styles that Dreamwidth is free to use from Livejournal, located here in the wiki if you'd like to try something else.

So basically, you'd want to take the Three Column layout and use it along with the tutorial at starlit.

[proseac]

LOL Trust me to want to 'go where no-one has gone before'! LOL

Thanks so much for your help, and the links. I will give it a go, and see what happens. I will probably be back when I run into problems...hee! :)

[chagrined]

I don't believe "Livejournal themes are imported as S1" is accurate. DW doesn't even support S1 layouts. Did you mean to say that LJ S2 Themes are S2 Core v1 themes over here? (As opposed to most of the DW themes which I believe are S2 Core v2?)