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[oyceter]

Whoo! After drooling over coffee_and_ink and double_helix and assorted other people's sidebars for forever, I finally figured out how to stick my own in without having to resort to S2. S2 frustrates me because while it's a lot easier to customize it in some ways, outside of those boundaries, you can't do anything. So I lose all the random changes I've already made to the Generator style. But then, if you really want control in S2, you have to learn an entire new language, or so it seems, which feels like too much work for me. So I am still in good old S1 (but now with a sidebar!).

Alas, the holy grail of LJ style changes continues to elude me in S1 -- I still can't figure out how to have my icon show up on every post in the "recent" view. Grrr.

The new and improved lj isn't actually that new and improved, but I'm too lazy to think of a new color scheme. Besides, I'm still rather fond of this one. I did, however, make a new banner and then realize that I have a really stupid journal title. Hee. Oh well. Maybe the pretty font will distract people ;).

And I have a sidebar! Whoo!

Comments

[rilina.livejournal.com]

The new banner is very nifty.

I'd recommend playing around with the S2 Variable Flow source code, since I found that very easy to modify, but that style hasn't implemented adding userpics to the recent view.

[oyceter]

Thanks ^_^.

Is it really very easy? I can't quite tell, and wading through all the documentation was starting to make my head hurt.

[rilina.livejournal.com]

Well, I had done a couple customized layouts before my current one, so I'm familiar with the S2 basics. But most of the changes that I made in my layout only required a working knowledge of CSS--I left the more complicated layout bits alone. The tricky bit was adding the sidebar, and someone had posted step by step instructions for that at s2variableflow, which simplified matters.

[oyceter]

*nods* Ooo, that's nice. I should try finding an S2 Generator community sometime and contemplate (for the six billionth time) making the switch.

[thinkum]

Wooo! Very nice! :-)

[oyceter]

Thanks!

[riemannia.livejournal.com]

Very nice! I'd love a sidebar but there doesn't seem to be a magic button anywhere. Is it horribly complicated?

[oyceter]

It got a bit complicated for the particular layout that I use. Mostly that's because it doesn't come with a sidebar originally, so I had to code the whole thing myself and decide what it should look like, etc.