Tabula Rasa: Bases

[sven]

Theme name/layout: Bases in Tabula Rasa
Author: Malionette
Layout info: see the layer?
Image info: no img

I've finished converting into em and variables. (:

Note: The footer is disabled and this layout only functions in two-columns-right and one-column.

Comments

[afuna]

I see the layer!

Fantastic conversion; it's going to be very very (and did I say very?) easy to make this an official layer.

[sven]

Yay, I hope to see it up soon! (:

[baggyeyes]

It looks...quite skinny in Safari 4.0.3. Skinny in Flock 2.5.2 (Based on Firefox 3.5) on a Mac. I'll post screen caps when I can.

[baggyeyes]

Safari 4.0.3 screen cap.





Flock 2.5.2 (Mac version, based on Firefox 3.5)

[sven]

Hi (: I'm wondering if you had any mods on (another layer or custom css) because it looks normal on windows flock 2.5 and windows safari 4.0

I appreciate it if you could check my page and see if the same is occuring. (: sven

[turlough]

I like this! I used it in my testing journal and it looks alright in both Firefox 3.5.2 and Safari 4.0.3 on my Mac (OS X 10.5.8).

[baggyeyes]

Yours looks perfect.

Hrm. :-/

I'll try again, and see what it is that I've caused it to go wrong.

[baggyeyes]

Aha! I found the problem....

I didn't go into customize theme the first time. If I had, I would have found that there was a style sheet still in the CSS box. That style sheet messed up the layout.

[sven]

Phew! Problem solved! (:

[afuna]

In converting it, I made it a toplayer layout, not a theme of Tabula Rasa, so I edited the note to just say "Bases" instead.

I also removed the invisible separator hack div, and the #tertiary div (carry overs from Tabula Rasa).

Also removed the footer from the HTML altogether *g*

Just very tiny tweaks to get rid of stuff that wasn't being used

One suggestion, how about we make the blockquote background color a slightly lighter color of the page background? $*color_page_background->lighter() lightens it just a tidge. I noticed it was something like that in your original previews, and that could be useful for color themes of your layout with slightly darker backgrounds.

And speaking of color themes, I was showing off your layout in IRC, and someone in there liked it so much they went ahead and submitted a color tweak on the spot (which set a record for how quickly someone-not-the-author submitted a theme after a layout was made official). I mean, the layout hasn't even been committed yet *g*!

I have the color shift here right now:

http://afuna.afuna.dreamhack.afunamatata.com/?s2id=132



So, FYI: I've named the current theme "Tropical", of the layout "Bases", and the color shift is "Summer Holiday. Do tell me if you have something different in mind!

[sven]

I'm not sure where I should go to find the finished product of this layout... It's not in the public layers or Select Journal Style page when I checked.

I like those tweaks! And about the blockquote, that sounds like a good idea. ( I wish I knew lighter() existed when I was converting this! )

The colour shift looks nice! I think they forgot to change the hover colours though.

I'm fine with the names! (:

[afuna]

It's not yet live, since I just finished the tweaks; for now it's only visible on my test server (http://www.afuna.dreamhack.afunamatata.com/customize/advanced/layerbrowse)

It should be out by next code push though!

ETA: And it's not too light to add darker/lighter stuff, if you find anything you wish to do that to, right now *g*

[sven]

Oh, I get it! I can't wait to see it live on DW!!

I think it's fine since I've managed to link everything to comments title background.

Oh and could you do a small change for me? Could you make the layout credit Malionette into a link to the user Malionette?

[afuna]

No problem! I just updated the code, but it won't show up as the user on my dev environment, since there's no user malionette on my server. It will show up properly on Dreamwidth proper, though!

[sven]

That sounds wonderful, thank you! (:

[afuna]

Oh! Also one tiny thing: the layout credit module, the user name, etc, shows up below the layout, because it's a dd/dl combination. Any preference for how you want that to show, or does that look good to you now? :)

[sven]

Could you add this line of CSS so there'd be space between the border and the credit line:

.module-credit .module-content {padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; }

I think that's all, it looks good to me. Good job and thank you! (:

[afuna]

Just finished all the tweaks you suggested, and fudged about a hover color, and then I realized that I hadn't shown you your own layout layer (though I am pretty sure you know what it looks like!)

Here's the two themes:

http://afuna.afuna.dreamhack.afunamatata.com/?s2id=131
http://afuna.afuna.dreamhack.afunamatata.com/?s2id=132

And thank you for this layout! I'm really looking forward to having it go live :)

[afuna]

Oh hey, you have a couple of months of paid time coming to you. Which account do you want them to be credited to?

[sven]

do you think you could switch the paid time with a name switch instead?

[afuna]

I will ask!

[sven]

thanks

[afuna]

We can do a rename in addition to the paid time and invites -- so which username do you have in mind? :-)

[sven]

can you switch sven with malionette?

and could you send any paid time to fruitstyle? I don't need any invite codes, thanks (:

[afuna]

Oops, jumped the gun; the paid time was already applied to sven by the time I got this comment. Perhaps the next layout...? :-)


Will do with the renaming! It'll take a bit, though; we just found out that the tool we need to use to do the switch is broken. I'll message you when we get that fixed.

[sven]

Ok (:

It's ok, i'll wait.