New Style Draft - Heads Up

[momijizukamori]

So it seemed from some of the discussion on other layout comms that users wanted something like LJ's Expressive/Mixit styles, which for those unfamiliar with them, are fixed width and have pretty header images.

Now, I know we don't do fixed-width-by-default here, but I decided I'd try my hand at something that could be set between fluid and fixed width very easily, and supported header images above the header text, as well as behind it. The base once again is branchandroot's Paletteable because apparently it's my go-to for a clean starter code *g*

Source is here, and you can see it live here, though the back-end stuff is where the magic (and thus the feedback-needed is).

Stuff I plan to do for sure:
-make the sidebar background extend the length of the page (and in fact thought I had, up until, uh, right now)
-Style the month headers on archive-page-by-year to look like the subject headers on entries.

Stuff I am waffling about:
-right now the image input for the header is the same as the background header-image, with a toggle between the two. I'm not sure if it should stay like that, or if there should be an option to have header background /and/ a banner-header.
-Not sure what other CSS tweaks I should make because... I am not always an ideas person *g*

core2 variables!

[momijizukamori]

So there are lots of nice pre-defined variables in core2 for us to use in coding themes, but you kind of have to dig into the core2 code (or see what other people have done) to find what's available. I figured I'd pull out the font and color ones (which I think are what come up the most for just-CSS styling) so they'd be a little more accessible.

Keep in mind that if there isn't a specific font or color property that you want, you're better off making a new one one, rather than doubling up or using a variable for a use other than what it was defined for. Moving them around ends up with confusion and frustration for end-users in the wizard, as it means what the description says the color does doesn't end up being what it actually does.

( fonts )

( colors )

Post-push Stats

[ninetydegrees]

So many good news, guys, because you've been amazing!

Let's start with styles: 54 ones have been submitted and 31 are live (57%). There are two new styles, Abstractia and Marginless, both of which could use more themes. Five other styles have been claimed and are being actively worked on so there's a good chance there will be more new styles in upcoming months. \o/

And now themes: over 1,000 have been submitted --yeah, you read that right!-- and 877 are live (87%). With this push, we get 73 new themes in 11 different styles (including Abstractia and Marginless).

Many thanks to Chiming, Delladea and Momijizukamori for all the work they did patching new styles and themes.