Kittens!

[tsukinofaerii]

This makes me feel so special. ^^ I've finished my first real S2 layout for general download. (All the other ones I've done were pretty basic). It's Firefox-only. In IE it looks strange, and I can't figure out how to fix it. (sweatdrop) I blame nyreak for this, by the way. She's one one responsible for introducing me to flexible squares.

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Because this took some much effort and is so dear to me as a first, I'm going to have to ask for credit on this one. ^^ If you'd like to see it in action, it's up at tsukino_tester at the moment, but I can't be sure for how long.

In other news, I'm going to be in Kissimee for the weekend, so I'll be out of touch for the most part. Sorry guys - father calls, and we're not so estranged that I'll say "no" when he asks me to visit and we haven't seen each other in more than a year.

Comments

[nyreak.livejournal.com]

Ah ha ha! That's Flexible Squares, isn't it? See, I told you it's a good layout. :D

How did you do the whole background around the entires thing? I like that. I don't think it would work with my current layout, but could be handy to know in the future.

It's lovely, by the way.

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

Lol Thank you. Yes, you did tell me so. :D It's also a pain, just so you know. It took tags in a couple of places. There's got to be a thousand different classes and IDs for each tiny bit, and there seems to be no master list of which does what. As someone with a basic grasp of CSS... ouch.

On the plus side, I've learned a LOT more about CSS from this project...

The tags I used for the background were:

#maincontent {
background-image: url(IMAGE URL);
}
.datesubject {
background-image: url(IMAGE URL);
}


And the sidebar (in case you're curious) was:

#sidebar {
background-image: url(IMAGE URL);
}

[nyreak.livejournal.com]

I really like how easy it is to do extra boxes of stuff in the sidebar, I think that's what I like about it the most.

Did you look at s2flexisquares? They have a loads of step by step tutorials and such, which is what I use most of the time.

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

Er- I'll look at them next time? ^^; I pretty much just opened the source file and went, "What happens if I do this to that... oops." for about a three days until it worked.

[nyreak.livejournal.com]

oh, I only really go there if I want to do something in particular. They have things tagged well for that.

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the resource. ^^ (bookmarks it)