Modular with nine themes

[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.

Comments

[foxfirefey]

I really like the Amber and Green one! When this gets in, I'll probably make it the theme for command_liners.

[branchandroot]

Lovely! I've been meaning for a while to make a theme that's like the old amber or green screens, since I know some people really prefer them.

[dancing_serpent]

Oooh! ♥ the Distinct Blue.

[branchandroot]

*grins* Thought you'd like that one.

[dancing_serpent]

*snicker* Yeah, I'm predictable like that.

[turlough]

Very pretty!! I especially like Olive Tree, such a restful colour combination.

The only problem I noticed was the lack of padding on the right side in the sidebar calendar, it looks kind of awkward with the dates all squished up against the frame on that side but not on the other.

[branchandroot]

Can you give me a screenshot? None of my test computers have shown that, and the padding is equal all over the module-content. If content is sliding over, there's something else going on.

[turlough]

It looks worse in Firefox (v3.5.6 on Mac OSX 10.5.8) than in Safari (v4.0.4 ditto) but to me at least it's still notable in Safari.

[branchandroot]

Ah, that. That's not a padding issue, that's a width issue. Content will overflow, if it's block (like that table) and wider than the container. Such is life. *frowns* Odd that it should happen when the default sidebar width is set to 15em, though. Normally that's enough to give the calendar more room.

[turlough]

Aha! I didn't even think of that because when the same thing happened to me it was usually far more pronounced, but that might just be peculiar to Flexible Squares. (These days I always end up making the calendar font much smaller than the others, it's not as if it's text you need to read after all.)

[owl]

Nice! It reminds me of the old Component on LJ (hacking about with transparent gifs for the corners, how I don't miss that).

[branchandroot]

Thanks! And, seriously, you and me both. *loves on CSS 3*

[mark]

Ooh, I like!

[branchandroot]

Thanks! This was a fun one; easy css once the corners are out of the way.

[owl]

I'm not sure if this was intentional, but none of the other styles do it: Multi-level tags in the sidebar module are not indented or marked in any way; they look like one long list.

[branchandroot]

Ah! No that was not intentional, thank you for catching that. *goes to fix it*

[jenny_sparrow]

I really liked the Coffee and Cream one! When will we be able to use these nice themes? %))

[ninetydegrees]

Hi branchandroot,

I'm thinking of patching this because you made it so easy to do so (thank you!) and I was wondering which theme you'd like to be the default.

[branchandroot]

Oh, goodness, I didn't say, did I? Ummmm... We already have a lot of cool colors in the defaults, so how about Mediterranean Peach. That should also make a good, strong contrast for the preview image. Thanks for taking this one!

[septentrion]

This lay-out is splendid. I'll keep it in mind for when I want a change.

Do you think it'd work on livejournal and/or insanejournal?

[branchandroot]

Thanks!

It would probably work, but you'd have to reproduce the base layer, Tabula Rasa. That's based on the version 2 S2 layer here, so it would take a certain amount of jiggering around and figuring out what functions were changed and what can just be left as is.

On the other hand, if Squeaky does switch over to the forked code once DW is out of beta, maybe this version will be coming soon!