dreamscapes

Theme name/layout: Diamonds / Tabula Rasa
Author: 900degrees
Layout info:
Layer: http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=97851
Theme: http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=97852
Preview: http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/preview_redirect?themeid=97852
Image info: I made the bkg image myself. Two fonts licensed to be used in free and commercial projects are currently embedded into the layout. The icons are CC-licensed (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0).
Additional info (for layouts): the layout should work in any column configuration and modules should be movable BUT I haven't tested it the latter yet.

To see the font embedding thingie go to http://www.ninetydegrees.hack.dreamwidth.net/users/system/ please.

This is a draft: I haven't tested this layout thoroughly yet and I'm still figuring out its design as this is not what I had intended to make initially. I'm aware some things don't look perfect but feel free to give feedback or concrit or make suggestions.

Edit: There are two features in this layout that other layouts don't have, I think:
- most icons come in three sizes: 16x16, 24x24 and 32x32. You can set their size in Customize. Default is 16x16 pixels.
- the date and time formats are customizable via Customize too.

Suggested improvements:
- options to change positioning from left to right and vice versa (entry title, entry datetime and I had planned on entry icon too).
- option to change text alignment (from justify to left)

baggyeyes

I have a Flickr set available for anyone who wants to make use of the images as either color inspiration, or to use the textures, or whatever.

Choose Textures-Color, after you click on the image below. I'm having trouble getting a proper link to the set.

I have it set to a Creative Commons Attribution license, but really, I'm not picky. That is the only set that can be used.

Example:
( example under cut )
Have a nice day.

Current Mood: sick
Current Music: Us - Regina Spektor

branchandroot

Please note: I ask because I am not much of an artist myself! I don't have the photoshop skills to translate most photos into a good header image. If anyone does, that's perfect, but I can't do much myself with "raw" photos.

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This is a call to all artists! There is a new layout in the works which is optimized for header images (minimal other visuals and it can take two header images via the wizard). Alas, there are few really good banner type images available on the stock sites under suitable licenses.

In particular, I was hoping to get some skylines from various cities (like the set of Expressive skyline themes). Would anybody like to contribute some? Or, for that matter, any other header image?

The images must be licensed such that Dreamwidth can use and redistribute them. This is a liquid layout, so they should also be something that either repeats gracefully or, as in the case of skylines, ends gracefully, perhaps layered over a simple repeating background. See a repeating sample and a non-repeating, layered sample.

ETA: Additional specifications: I wouldn't want to go much over 300px in height. The journal/page titles should be taken into account. While there doesn't necessarily have to be completely open space for them, it does need a space in which a single text color would be readable over whatever the background texture is.

baggyeyes

I promised I'd submit this before New Years. I wanted to clean it up; take out code that I didn't modify, but I honestly cannot for the life of me, remember what I changed and didn't. :(

I've been having a terrible time remembering things...

I had been working on a theme a while ago, for DW Transmogrified. It morphed into two themes, Tehotenion, a purple and White and black theme named in honor of my Dad, and a black and white one with shadows. They aren't done, and they are messy - code-wise.

Previews:

Tehotenion

Shadow Boxing

Layer info:

Tehotenion

Shadow Boxing

This needs testing on Windows machines, (IE in particular) and Linux.

Current Mood: scared

branchandroot

Theme name/layout: Modular
Author:

branchandroot
Layout info: Layout layer
Image info: All images public domain, created by me.

Swim in the Sea | Preview
Bubblegum | Preview
Amber and Green | Preview
Olive Tree | Preview
Iris at Dusk | Preview
Coffe and Cream | Preview
Distinct Blue | Preview
Mediterranean Peach | Preview
Green Summer | Preview

Testing: done, but more is always good. This will have rounded corners in FF and Safari.

Conversion: the TR code needs to be stripped out of the layout layer, and that needs to become a TR child. Everything else should be good to go as-is.

dancing_serpent

Theme name/layout: New Ocean / Transmogrified
Author:

dancing_serpent

New Ocean / Preview

Image info: None

This is the polished version of my very first colour theme, Ocean. It uses mostly the same colours, but I got rid of the hard black borders, corrected the contrast of the links and made it a bit prettier.

I love that one and thought I'd offer it here, too, to either replace the original version or as an additional theme. What do you think?

dancing_serpent

layout: Brittle

Soft Green, Soft Blue and Old Roses (all dark on light)

Author:

dancing_serpent

Soft Green / Preview
Soft Blue / Preview
Old Roses / Preview

Image info: None

dancing_serpent

Theme name/layout: Marble I + II / Fluid Measure

Author:

dancing_serpent

Marble I / Preview
Marble II / Preview

Image info: None

I used the same colour patterns as before for Marble I (which makes it light on dark) and simply reversed them for Marble II (dark on light).

asenathwaite

Grey Days/Transmogrified:
Author:asenathwaite
Layout info:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=78795
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layerbrowse?id=78795
Image info: No images.

I went with the second option for the hover color; when I used the first one my eyes couldn't decide if they were looking at gray or purple.

branchandroot

Theme name/layout: Boxes and Borders
Author:

900degrees

33 layouts have been submitted. 11 are unclaimed, 1 is claimed but not patched yet, 2 have been patched but not committed yet. Yeah, we're not making much progress on these but, as in October, all unclaimed layouts but one need expansion, conversion, testing, etc...

All remaining unclaimed themes are themes attached to these unclaimed layouts. In other words, all themes for existing layouts have been claimed. \O/ Even better, 26 of them have already been patched and 2 have been committed.

Also, Dreamwidth currently offers 127 different themes for 19 different layouts.

Conclusion: you're still awesome! :)

Designers, if you're thinking of making a theme, three layouts could use a little more variety: Blanket, Boxes and Borders and Brittle.

kaigou

Theme name/layout: Gradiance
Author: Kaigou
Layout info: originally Tranquility III
Image info: 10 substitute icons (5 per style)
Layout url: http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=87751&fmt=html

( This is the dark-on-light version of Gradiance. Info & links behind the cut. )

dancing_serpent

Theme name/layout: Beach After Sunset / Fluid Measure
Author:

dancing_serpent
Layout info:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=88561
Preview:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/preview_redirect?themeid=88561
Image info: None

Theme name/layout: Pigeon Blue / Fluid Measure
Author:

dancing_serpent
Layout info:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=88562
Preview:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/preview_redirect?themeid=88562
Image info: None

branchandroot

Theme name/layout: Transmogrified
Author:

dancing_serpent

Theme name/layout: Frozen Sky / Transmogrified
Author:

dancing_serpent
Layout info:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=87926
Preview:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/preview_redirect?themeid=87926
Image info: None

branchandroot

Theme name/layout: Nouveau Oleanders/Tabula Rasa
Author:

branchandroot
Layout info: Theme layer
Image info: All images public domain from www.openclipart.org. Details in layer.

Color Themes:
Sienna | Preview (default/display)
Piquant | Preview
Wisteria | Preview
Dusty Antique | Preview
Sea and Salt | Preview

Top layer needs to be made a layout child of Tabula Rasa, color themes need to be made theme instead of user layers. Aside from that, it should be good to go.

cimorene

I have a layout layer that's almost ready to submit, but I need some help with the browser testing.

I have ensured that it functions down to 800x600 and up to 20px text in Opera 10 and Firefox 3 on Linux, and in IE7 on Windows running in VirtualBox. So, obviously, the most important gap is Safari, but it'd be nice if someone could test IE on a genuine Windows machine!

Layout Name: Paper Me
Layout info: http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=30253
Theme preview of Silverquin (since you can't insta-preview the layout layer alone, I am informed): http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/preview_redirect?themeid=34217

Now, this layout also has *cough* 28 themes (I know, I know, but it's taken me a while to convert it to S2). These themes shouldn't function differently from each other, because they consist only of information that can be customized in the wizard anyway: a colorscheme, background images, and font sizes/faces. However, they can be checked for accidental invisible color combinations now. (I apologize in advance if any of the links are wrong. There's a certain amount of danger inherent in this amount of rote copy-pasta.)

( theme links )

There is one more thing! For some of the themes, I wanted to link to more than one resource, but couldn't figure out how to make more than one show up... anyone?

dancing_serpent

Because I love Transmogrified and it clearly needs more green. Two themes - one light on dark, one dark on light.

Theme name/layout: Dark Forest / Transmogrified
Author:

dancing_serpent
Layout info:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=86558
Preview:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/preview_redirect?themeid=86558
Image info: None

Theme name/layout: Forest Green / Transmogrified
Author:

dancing_serpent
Layout info:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=86560
Preview:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/preview_redirect?themeid=86560
Image info: None