EasyRead

[jeshyr]

Theme name/layout: EasyRead / Tabula Rasa
Author: rb
Layout info: CSS is available at http://notdoneliving.net/dw-easyread.css
Image info: Has no images

You can see this layout being used at my journal rb.

This very plain/simple layout is optimised for users who have low vision and use very large font sizes (think >36 pt, I usually use 128pt fonts) when reading long slabs of text. As you can imagine, most styles totally fail to be usable at these huge font sizes.

I have no knowledge of S2 or how to convert this theme into a "proper" DW style, and no spare energy/spoons/brain cells to learn how. afuna said to post it anyway and somebody else may do the converting for me so here you are! If anybody'd like to volunteer to help, please please please feel free :)

I set this up by choosing Tabula Rasa with no sidebars and pointing the CSS at the file above, I don't think there was anything else? I'd really like the stuff in .module-section-one to come out *above* the main content but I don't think this can be done with just CSS, I need the HTML output to be in a different order - hence the need (I think) for a patch.

Please somebody let me know if I have totally screwed this up! As you can see, I'm rather short on confidence here.

Ricky

Comments

[zvi]

Using this style on my own journal, it does a really funky thing with feed accounts that I'm trying to fix, but you've got a bunch of stuff that's been pulled to the bottom by 84px. Why that number and why is it defined in an absolute instead of a relative unit? Even for non-feed accounts, It starts overlaying the time and title when I set my minimum font to, say, 34 px.

Also, there was a typo in your css, and when I corrected it, the placement of the username in relation to the usericon changed. Is the new positioning what you intended, or should I rewrite so the username is next to the icon again?

You can see how the style is working at http://zvi.dreamwidth.org/?s2id=86436 and http://zvi.dreamwidth.org/read?s2id=86436 and http://zvi.dreamwidth.org/read?show=F&s2id=86436 (filtered to feeds, so you can see the overlap for yourself.)

[jeshyr]

Sorry for the slow reply.

The username should be next to the icon, yes.

Not sure what's up with the feeds - they look fine here in FF3.5. Whatever it is, if you can fix it please do!

The 84px had to do with making the user icon (and, necessarily, everything below it) bounce up so it's beside the title/etc of the entries. Try taking it out of .entry .contents and you should see why. If you know a better way to do it, I'd love to know - CSS isn't my strong point. I couldn't figure out how to make it pop up beside the usericon which is HTML-ly after the entry subject and such without doing that. I think it was 84px rather than relative because of being relative to the icon size? I honestly don't remember - I wrote that stuff months ago!

Cheers,
r

[zvi]

Oooh. I fixed the feed things and gave it to Afuna, since you didn't get back to me. I'll try to figure out the usernames issue and file a correction before next codepush.

84px is a weird amount. Most icon adjusting stuff is 100px or thereabouts. It's very useful, if you do something weird and particular, to make a comment saying why stuff is arranged that way, so people coming after you can figure it out. (Or you can figure it out months later. Hah!)

[jeshyr]

I totally should have commented it, yeah. *sighs* I originally just wrote it for myself and only months after went "ohh, this could be a system style!" so I didn't do it the way I normally would do stuff for public consumption :( Mea culpa!

Thanks for fixing the feeds up.

Cheers,
r