The Blog is Dead, Long Live the LiveJournal

[rj_anderson]

And to celebrate the change, I've treated myself to a nice new color scheme for my LJ front page. Yay!

Can anyone tell me how to put a vertical line between the content and sidebar areas, and (thanks, sreya!) make the date headers more closely resemble the ones on the old blog (which I really liked)? I know not the mysterious ways of S2.

Now I must go forth and do Christmas shopping.

Comments

[kerravonsen]

Oooh, pretty!

[gamiila.livejournal.com]

Lovely!...but sorry, can't help, havingno design abilities whatsoever. :(

[http://users.livejournal.com/shing_/]

Niiiiice. I like the colour.

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

Lovely color scheme! Unfortunately when it comes to anything graphic-y, I'm a net.idiot.

I'm also glad that you're posting everything over here, because it's easier to comment. :)

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

If you mean my mood theme, that's the Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Doctor).

[kizmet-42.livejournal.com]

No it's not, it's Tristan Farnon!

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Nah, Tristan had a better haircut.

*is still bitter about how sloppy they let the Fifth Doctor's hair get for 2/3rds of the run*

[sreya.livejournal.com]

Try creating a layer with this code in it:

layerinfo "type" = "theme";
layerinfo "name" = "Parabolic";

function custom_styles() {
"""
#main {
float:left;
}
#paraphernalia {
float:right;
border-left: solid 1px #000000;
}

""";
}

Just change the 000000 to the color you want it to be. And I love the new look, very classy!

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Cool! Only I created a layout-specific layer of the "theme" type and pasted the above code into it, and it compiled OK, but it didn't seem to make any difference in my layout.

Wah?

[sreya.livejournal.com]

Did you select the layer in your customize area?

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

It took me a while to find it, but I've got it now. Thanks so much!

Now I just have to figure out how to make the date headers like the old blog...

[jamesbow.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you combined your two blogs. An eclectic mix is an interesting mmix.