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([personal profile] anolinde Jan. 31st, 2007 11:03 pm)
New layout!

[livejournal.com profile] anolinde

*does the new layout dance*

Okay, so, since I did this for [livejournal.com profile] the_lj_reboot, we're supposed to talk a little about the design process that went behind the making of the layout. I'll describe it as well as I can remember, because I made this layout back in October or November.

Originally, I saw the Clean Cut and Utopia designs for the Style (you can view them here and really wanted to do something that combined the two of them. Namely, I wanted to keep the sidebar of Clean Cut, but also the cool entry formatting of Utopia.

I originally tried to use the stylesheet for Clean Cut, but it was too hard to find and too complicated, so I decided to recreate it from scratch using Smooth Sailing (which I like, because it displays tags in the sidebar). I then spent the better part of a week fooling around on my journal [livejournal.com profile] testsforlayouts (can you guess what it's for?). A couple of times, I had to get help from [livejournal.com profile] s2smoothsailing, but that's okay. =)

The lyrics in the layout ("Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)" by Garbage) are in there simply because that song was on while I was thinking about what to put in a random textbox in the sidebar that I didn't even end up using. It kind of stuck, and so while I was trying to make the header I decided to use these pics of Evangeline Lilly, because they come off as very flirty and that (to me) is what the song's about.

Just a bit of trivia: the header was what finally switched me from Internet Explorer to Firefox, because Internet Explorer kept erasing the picture whenever I scrolled down.

So, yeah, that's basically what happened with my layout. =) I'm very happy with it, except now I'll have to get used to having the sidebar on the left as opposed to the right. To everyone who's never contemplated joining [livejournal.com profile] the_lj_reboot, I would highly recommend it, because they have a ton of tips about CSS and it's really easy to follow along!

What do you guys think?

From: [identity profile] elven-minority.livejournal.com


Your layout doesn't work for all screen resolutions, just so you know.

From: [identity profile] anolinde.livejournal.com


Yeah, it looks really screwy in Internet Explorer... what are you using/what does it look like?

From: [identity profile] padabee.livejournal.com


I like how clean it looks :) Is there supposed to be a header?

From: [identity profile] padabee.livejournal.com


A customized version of IE - and I see the header loading, it just doesn't show up, only the stripey background.

From: [identity profile] anolinde.livejournal.com


Yeah, for some reason the header refuses to show up in Internet Explorer, which is pretty much why I ended up switching to Firefox, because I got really annoyed with it after awhile. =)
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