Header custom menu, User Name size and position

[extempore]

Hello fellow style addicts!

I recently moved in from LJ and I'm in the process of recreating my journal layout at DW. I'm using the Brittle layout and trial/error my way through the design. ;) Most things I managed to work out by myself, but there are a few points I can't seem to find a solution for. Hopefully someone will be able to point me in the right direction. Additionally, I'm not sure what tags would be appropriate for this post. I'd be relieved, if the mods could handle that. ^^;

1.
My header looks like this. What I'd like to have is instead of the journal name/page title to show a simple link menu I can freely configure, such as:

profile  |  circles  |  calendar  |  link a  |  link b

I found in this lovely community already how to get rid of the page title etc. What I don't know is how I could put links there instead, and perhaps my profile icon in a smaller size. --- Partially solved!

2.
I'd like to move "Previous 50" to the right and to change the font size. So far I only managed to find out how to change the color. I'd like to do the same on the bottom of the page. (Currently the profile module sits there as well. I disabled it for now, because my first plan had been to put it in the header, which didn't work and the entire thing would have been too big for the top of my page anyway.) --- SOLVED!

3.
Is there a way to (a) change the font size of user names independently from the font size for date/time? Also, is there a way to (b) place the user names below their icons in such a way that they behave "intelligently", i.e. have line breaks, if the name length exceeds a certain amount of letters? This is mainly interesting for communities when you have "userblabla posted in communityblabla". I found out how to change the positioning in general, but I assume the user name would have to be withing the icon layer to be confined to it and for the entry text to not overlap it, and I couldn't figure out how to do that or how to add another box below the icon in which I could put the user name. --- Part (a) solved!


Thank you in advance for any help you can offer me! (Also: please ignore the white page background, I'll be adding a background image once everything sits on its right place.)

Comments

[jana]

1) I think it's only possible with a theme layer, but I'm no expert on theme layers, so hopefully someone else can help you here.

2) .navigation{text-align: right; font-size: 10pt;} should do the trick.

3) Try .poster{font-size: 10pt;} for the user name. Not so sure about positioning the user name below the user icon though. This might also be something where you need a theme layer.

[marahmarie]

Take "set layout_type = "one-column";" out of your CSS. It's breaking your page. Code like that goes in the theme layer only. What you're using is not your theme layer. It's the Custom CSS box. :)

Also (after checking through your CSS some more) I see you're mixing s2 (a take-off on Perl, basically) into your CSS. When you put it within curly brackets like it is now I don't think it'll do much harm, but since you're feeding it through a style sheet, not the compiler, I don't think it's going to do much of anything useful, either. Just a thought...

[ex_awakened208]

I don't know if you still need help with #1, but there is a way to get custom navigation by customizing this code and putting it in your theme layer.