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ajnabi ([personal profile] ajnabi) wrote in [site community profile] dreamscapes2009-08-11 12:55 pm

Snakes & Boxes

Posting this at [personal profile] afuna's request :)

Theme name/layout: Snakes & Boxes / Tabula Rasa
Author: [profile] aqrima
Image Info: None
Layout info:

color scheme 1: pinked out


color scheme 2: newspaper


color scheme 3: glitter grass


color scheme 4: bluesy


color scheme 5: midnight


color scheme 6: wild thing



NOTES:

1. At [personal profile] afuna's request, I converted this layout to relative width measurements. I will have more color schemes up and ready soon!

2. I have tested the layout quite a bit in Firefox (my default browser) and Safari -- let me know if it doesn't work in your particular browser of choice. Little things matter, too! [Sorry, I'm a bit of a perfectionist..]
baggyeyes: Bugs Bunny and the Bull (Bronze Angel)

[personal profile] baggyeyes 2009-08-12 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm trying this out right now. My resolution is 1600 x 1200, and my monitor and card won't really let me change it (old card, new monitor setup).

So the 8pt text makes it hard to read. Can you change the font-sizes to something that might scale better?

I know there's a PXtoEM site, but I also found a downloadable EMChart.

I look forward to the other iterations of your layout. Will you make more Tabula Rasa layouts?? (Nudge nudge) :D
baggyeyes: Bugs Bunny and the Bull (30DaysofNight: Stranger)

[personal profile] baggyeyes 2009-08-13 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, yes...Very nice. It looks very smooth. I'm using Flock 2.5, on a Mac.
baggyeyes: Bugs Bunny and the Bull (Default)

[personal profile] baggyeyes 2009-08-13 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
There is a problem - I opened an entry, and the sidebar covers part of the contents. This happens with all of the entries.
baggyeyes: Bugs Bunny and the Bull (Default)

[personal profile] baggyeyes 2009-08-13 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
*facepalm* never mind. I just realized - I turned on the base style sheet. I'm testing a couple of sheets at the same time. Hard to do with a free account. :-| Hee.
denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (Default)

[staff profile] denise 2009-08-23 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
These are all so awesome-looking.
denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (Default)

[staff profile] denise 2009-08-23 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
I saw them go into Bugzilla and came to look, and omg they're great!
denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (Default)

[staff profile] denise 2009-08-23 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! You can see the official bug for adding it to the code here -- that means it should be available by the next code push, assuming that we don't find any major CSS problems with it that need tweaking. :)
denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (Default)

[staff profile] denise 2009-08-23 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
And we will eagerly take any other designs you happen to come up with!
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)

[personal profile] afuna 2009-08-23 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been playing with the layout (the effect of the separated boxes scrolling up and down the screen is pretty nifty, heehee), and I've been thinking a bit, and I think that the fixed width (850px) of the center column could be problematic, especially for smaller screen sizes (e.g., netbooks, crappy phone browsers).

I'm thinking we could give #canvas/entries a fluid width, set in percentages, so that they can shrink and grow, to a certain extent. The entry content could be shifted away from the userpics with a margin-right -- what do you think, does that sound doable?
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)

[personal profile] afuna 2009-08-24 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Entirely okay! I'm excited to hear that you're converting it to fluid width; looking forward to the results :)
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)

[personal profile] afuna 2009-08-24 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! In regard to ems versus percentages, I thought you might find this information useful (from an email conversation with a friend of mine, who's done a lot of work with fluid layouts):

"Ems are good for sizes and margins in relation to text, for example if you want to raise the userpic up one line, giving it a top margin of -1.5em is good. They're also good for widths of small text boxes, like the sidebar, which should accommodate about the same number of lines for larger and smaller fonts. Percentages are good for page margins and large blocks, for example if you want to make the content 80% of the page width or if you want to give the inner header a margin of 10% within the outer header box."
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)

[personal profile] afuna 2009-08-27 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, yes. Thank you for the reminder!
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)

[personal profile] afuna 2009-08-23 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
OH! Also, from our last conversation, without the icons / as text, the entry interaction links look like this:

http://afuna.afuna.dreamhack.afunamatata.com/?s2id=111

ETA

Last of the comment spam, hehe

And you can't see this because of the being locked thing, but here is how the status of a private, NSFw entry shows when I switch the icons to text:

http://www.afunamatata.com/screenshots/snakesandboxes-securityprivacy.png



I did both of these by adding this code to my theme layer:

set entry_management_links = "text";
set comment_management_links = "text";

function Entry::print_metatypes() {
$this->print_metatypes(false, true);
}
Edited 2009-08-23 18:00 (UTC)
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)

[personal profile] afuna 2009-08-24 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
OH! hehe I bet they're not showing up because you're not logged in.


Anyway here is one screenshot with no comments:

http://www.afunamatata.com/screenshots/snakesandboxes-nocomments.png

And here is one with comments:

http://www.afunamatata.com/screenshots/snakesandboxes-wholeentry.png
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)

[personal profile] afuna 2009-08-26 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Easily done! Do you need a screenshot as well, or is that all right now? *G*
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)

[personal profile] afuna 2009-09-17 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
I was hoping to get the time to work on it, and we could have it by next code push. I want it in really soon! (Just that life hasn't been cooperating with me lately *rueful*)

I'm sorry for disappearing on you :)
baggyeyes: Bugs Bunny and the Bull (Default)

Giving this theme another go!

[personal profile] baggyeyes 2010-03-16 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
I think I'll try another turn with this theme. I have a different setup this time, so, maybe I can see stuff I didn't the first time.

I have discovered that Active Entries, a Paid User feature, does not have the same background color as the rest of the modules. I know why this is; just adding it here for reference.

The part that I added was .module-active to the list of modules on line 696 (in Smultron, anyway).

Edited 2010-03-16 00:56 (UTC)
baggyeyes: Bugs Bunny and the Bull (Default)

Re: Giving this theme another go!

[personal profile] baggyeyes 2010-03-16 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry for the multiple edits...that must have been a bit annoying. :-/

baggyeyes: Bugs Bunny and the Bull (Default)

Re: Giving this theme another go!

[personal profile] baggyeyes 2010-03-16 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I did notice this problem:


It's caused by this line of css:



So anytime someone includes a user name within the body of the entry, this will occur.
baggyeyes: Bugs Bunny and the Bull (Default)

Re: Giving this theme another go!

[personal profile] baggyeyes 2010-03-16 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Then again, it's weird that a comment poster element was used in the body of an entry. Why was that?

You know what? I think this is entirely an isolated thing. I tried to duplicate it, and couldn't. I think the OP may have done that.
Edited 2010-03-16 14:53 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ninetydegrees 2013-07-26 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey ajnabi,

I've been working on converting your style in the last few months and while I still have a few things to fix it's pretty much done. I sincerely apologize for the very long time it took to do this BTW. That being said I have two questions for you:
1) Do you still want credit to go to aqrima seeing as the journal no longer exists? Or do you prefer ajnabi? Or something else?
2) Would you mind looking at http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/preview_redirect?themeid=501185 and telling me what you think. I've had to change some things so it looks a bit different but are there things which seem completely wrong to you?
ninetydegrees: Art: heart (love)

[personal profile] ninetydegrees 2013-07-27 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
I'm so glad to hear from you! And np I'll go change the name right away. Thank you so much for your kind words. I'm really happy you think it looks great. I'm currently doing some tests to see if it looks good in all sorts of mode.
ninetydegrees: Text: thank you! (thanks)

Good news!

[personal profile] ninetydegrees 2013-07-29 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
Your lovely style and its themes have just been committed. It'll go live during the next code push. Congrats on officially becoming a Dreamwidth contributor!
Edited (oh grammar!) 2013-07-29 11:48 (UTC)
pari: a bird-seahorse painting (Default)

Re: Good news!

[personal profile] pari 2013-07-29 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much! And also, again, for all your hard work. I really appreciate it <3 <3