Easyread w/ themes, plus Drifting and Modish themes

[zvi]

Theme name/layout: Easyread
Author: zvi
Layout info: http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=73107
Image info: none
Notes: This is a one-column style with a wide reading area.

Themes: High Contrast White, Easyread (green), High Contrast Black, High Contrast Black and Yellow, Low Contrast Orange, Clovers!, Toros!, High Contrast Blue and Yellow

Theme name/layout: Modish / Clean Sheets
Author: zvi
Layout info: http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=74743
Image info: none

Theme name/layout: Modish / Plastic Grass
Author: zvi
Layout info: http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=74744
Image info: none

Theme name/layout: Drifting / Idolatry
Author: zvi
Layout info: http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=74749
Image info: none

Theme name/layout: Drifting / Go
Author: zvi
Layout info: http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=74750
Image info: none

Comments

[turlough]

Hmm, the yellow for the visited links in Modish/Clean Sheets is almost invisible against the white background in my browser (FF 3.5.2 on Mac OSX 10.5.8)

[zvi]

Is green better?

[turlough]

Much better contrast, yes. It was probably there before too, I just didn't notice it until now, but when you hover over the links in the nav links module in the sidebar the text gets almost invisible. The contrast between the dark blue of the background and the slightly lighter blue of the link text is hardly noticeable on my computer.

[zvi]

I always forget about the weird set up on the navigation bar in Modish. Red should work better.

[turlough]

Red definitely works better.

[afuna]

<3 for the fantastic conversion job. I've added a few other touches to put it in patch form, but I had to do barely any work at all. Thank you so much for picking up EasyRead!

[jeshyr]

Thanks so much for this Zvi!

Can I be thick and ask how I use that layersource thingy? I mean, can I use the style now instead of just my CSS?

[zvi]

You need to create a style. The easiest way is to just re-use my layers.

Go to Advanced Styles and create a style. Name it whatever you want. When it asks for the Layout Layer, pick other and enter the number 73107. Then it'll add some more options. For theme, pick other and enter the number 73183. (That's the green.) If you want to try the other themes, just grab their numbers from the URL. Alternately, you can use the wizard to pick your colors.

Save the whole shebang. Then pick the use button for that style.

[jeshyr]

Hmmmm.

http://rb.dreamwidth.org/

Look everybody, see Ricky fail at advanced styles!

What do I do next? I copy-pasted the numbers, and did it twice...

r

[zvi]

Did you press the use button next to your new style? If you did ... possibly you want to file a support request? I mean, this should work for everybody anyway...

[jeshyr]

There's a bug apparently, Afuna and Wyn and JD showed me a workaround and now it's working perfectly!

Thank you so much :) :)

r

[jd]

I did all that too, to test; http://jd.dreamwidth.org/?s2id=90034 is the result. I think the CSS cleaner is eating the CSS somehow? because in the source after the base DW css stuff like contextualhover.css I see this:

<style type="text/css">/* Cleaned CSS: */

</style>
<style type="text/css">
/* Cleaned CSS: */

</style>

I can file a support request if that's what's needed at this point, though. :)

Edit: Scratch all that. Talking about it in irc, afuna figured out something to make it work. Apparently the Advanced Styles page is buggy atm and drops the layout layerid when you press "change", so after you hit change, you have to go back and re-enter the layout layerid, then put the theme layerid in. Now it works fine :)

[wyntarvox]

D'oh, meant to grab you in IRC before you left. I'm doing a run through dreamscapes to pick up themes etc. to turn in to patches. I saw you were working on making the patch for Easyread; are you planning to do the same for the other themes you've posted here? No worries if not, I just don't want to step on toes and start doing ones you want to do yourself. :)

[zvi]

I'm going to do the Refried Tablet layout and the themes I write going forward, but anything currently here, you can pick up.

Thanks.

[zvi]

Someone noticed a problem with the Idolatry theme. I didn't see a bug report for it, so I don't know where you are in the patching process, but I thought I'd let you know that I changed it.

[testicle]

in drifting / idolatry, the "powered by" is so dark that it's not readable on the background.

[zvi]

Fixed.