Layout: Lists/Tabula Rasa

[branchandroot]

Theme name/layout: Lists
Author: Branchandroot
Layout info: layout layer
Image info: No images
Additional info (for layouts): child layout of Tabula Rasa, all columns

Grayscale Light layer | preview

Grayscale Dark layer | preview


This one should be good to go. Tabula Rasa needs to be stripped out of the layout layer, but I think everything else is good. (Except for the part about it winning Most Uninspired Name Ever. But I'm darn proud of that sidebar!)

ETA: Renamed: Librarian's Dream.

Comments

[musyc]

OH WOW. I really, really, really like this one. REALLY LIKE IT. I think I'll be sporting this by the weekend, oh yessssssssss.

[branchandroot]

Thank you! It was a pain in the butt to get the hover to act the same for all the sidebar stuff, but it was worth it.

[musyc]

Seriously, if I had sat myself down and said "okay, self, make a list of all the things you always consistently design in your own layouts", then you would have hit about 90% of them in this design. It's damn near perfect for my uses.

[haikitteh]

I love it. It's so clean and easy to read.

[dancing_serpent]

Oh, that one's nice!

[sergeyr]

It's great, perfect!

I spent the bulk of yesterday trying to pick a layout for my fastidious taste, but those all was faulty for me, and today I planned to learn how to build my own layout... and suddenly found this one at the very first post of this comunity! Unbelievable piece of luck!

Sorry for my lamerism (and my pure English), but how I can set it as my journal style? Is it need to test at first? I can participate at testing, if I can help.

[sergeyr]

Oh my god, I had to say poor, not pure. You see, I'm not a good at English.

[ninetydegrees]

So great!

[branchandroot]

I'm so glad it will work for you!

Until one of our volunteer coders makes a patch to add this to the site, you'll need to create a custom layer in order to use this layout. This page will tell you what a layer is, and how to create a custom one. Once you have a blank layout layer created (be sure you make it a child of Core 2) you just need to copy the page that's linked to "layout layer" in this entry and paste it into your blank layer. Then you'll be able to select and customize it through the Select Style page, just like any other layout.

If you do run into any bugs once you're using this, please do let me know on this entry.

[branchandroot]

Thanks!

[branchandroot]

^_^V It's a bit of a pain in the butt to theme, so I'm kind of happy we have so many theme designers around here! I only got up to two before I gave up.

[branchandroot]

Thanks!

[sergeyr]

Great, it works, thank you very much!

Now I try to set colors as your Grayscale Light scheme (copying blocks of "set" commands from your example), but I get a compilation error in block with "navigation_link" colors. I move this block after the "propgroup more_colors" block, and it works. Is it ok or I do something wrong from the beginning?

[laitaine]

This just beautiful! I love the hover in the sidebar, with that little flash of colour. Great job! ♥

[musyc]

Yeah, I'll be theming this one a lot. (Seriously, did I mention that I love it?) I've got a wine-purple theme on mine already, and I'm planning greens and blues at minimum. XD

[branchandroot]

That's just how it should work, yes! The "more colors" is full of things that don't exist in the parent layer, so you have to tell the layer they exist before you can set them.

[branchandroot]

Thank you! I got that idea from a Wordpress theme whose name I have never been able to find, and I loved it.

[branchandroot]

Fantastic! I felt a little guilty putting this up with a bare two themes, I have to admit.

[sergeyr]

Thanx!

[baggyeyes]

I love it! I wish I could help come up with a name for it, but my brain is fried. All I can get is something like Frame, or shelves, which aren't terribly cool names.

[branchandroot]

*wry* Yeah, I couldn't think of anything even vaguely descriptive that was also catchy. Oh well!

[musyc]

Noticed something on my droll just now that you might want to adjust in the layer. If a user makes an entry that is extremely short (in this case, nothing but a cut), then the link/comment bar gets shifted over to the left instead of remaining beneath the icon. Maybe a min-height on the entry container or a touch more margin on the comment bar? Not sure which would be more effective.

And a little personal niggle that it's entirely possible no one will ever notice but me, but thought it couldn't hurt to mention. The sidebar container and the header block have top edges that aren't precisely aligned. It's literally a single pixel difference, but it stuck out to me. (I adjusted it on my own page because I always display:none the header block in any case.)

[branchandroot]

Ack! I thought I had min-height on that. *goes to fix that* Thank you!

[erin_hartley]

Love the wine-purple one a lot!

[dancing_serpent]

*wince* Forgot to log out/into my main account. That was actually me, and of course I couldn't resist creating a theme with my favourite aqua colours already. *g*