Style: Summertime/Tabula Rasa

[ninetydegrees]

Edit: these are now live and can be selected from Customize Style. Original layers and pics are no longer available.


Style: Summertime
Author: ninetydegrees
Images info:
-- background texture by Design Shard. Usage terms : "Free to use for commercial and non commercial work no credit or link back needed, but please don’t redistribute or sell them as your own."
-- icons by Romeo Barreto, John Caserta, Denis Chenu, Pedro Lalli, Marcus Michaels, P.J. Onori, Laurent Patain and Cor Tiemens from The Noun Project. All licensed under No Rights Reserved ( CC0 ) or Attribution ( CC BY 3.0 ).

Themes:
Karting / Preview (shown in one-column-split mode with fewer modules)
Regatta / Preview (shown in three-columns-sides mode)
Swimming Pool / Preview (shown in one-column mode with fewer modules)
Tennis Court / Preview (shown in two-columns-right mode)

This style ate my mind so there will be more themes once I grow a new brain. :)


Testing would be appreciated as well as feedback on one-column modes as I wasn't sure if putting modules in the below-header and above-footer areas was the right thing to do. I'm not sold on any of the names either so suggestions are welcome.

Comments

[rakshi]

Hi again! I'm absolutely in love with this layout, but I can't seem to get it to work right. Are there instructions posted someplace telling how to do this and in what order? I've worked with layers before so I'm not a total newbie, but I can't get this to work right and I really WANT it to work right because I love it!

Thanks again for any help you can give me.

[ninetydegrees]

(Trying to be very quick so tell me it this isn't clear enough!)

1. Create a layout layer for Core2.
2. C/p http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=407675&fmt=html into it.
3. Create a theme layer for this style, Summertime.
4. C/p your chosen theme into this layer.
5. Create a style using both layers --layout and theme-- at http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/styles.
6. Click on use to apply it to your journal.

[rakshi]

Perfect!!! Thanks from the bottom of my heart!

Now may I pick your brain just a bit more? Is there a way to customize further? Change colors or the icons? Not saying I want to... but asking if it is permitted and/or possible... or both.

Again, thanks for a GREAT style. Totally unique and very cool!!!

[foxfirefey]

It is very permitted, possible and perhaps even easy. It's not my style, but I did go into the customization area and ninetydegrees has done a very good job of making it customizeable. You can change colors here:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=colors

And images here:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=images

Aside to designer: wow, ninetydegrees, something this lickable yet customizeable without making new images and such = A+

[ninetydegrees]

Thank you so much, Fey! I learned a lot while making this style and the challenge was fun so it was a win-win. *bg*

[ninetydegrees]

What Fey said! This style is yours to do what you want with, and most basic changes can be done via the customization interface.
A little precision, though: you can't change easily the colors of the icons --that would require making new images-- but the round disc behind them is entirely customizable.