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I'm going to release myself from the obligation to individually reply to everyone who congratulated me on the exams, but THANK YOU!

meanwhile, I got sucked into a massive lj layout redesign, which is the sort of thing that tends to happen to me when I don't have tons of homework to do. or when I DO have tons of homework to do (exhibit A: the LibraryThing incident and last week's massive drupal undertaking which started with setting up a web page for _plasticity_). my hands are somewhat tied due to a longstanding decision to make my lj more or less match my fic site, which I have no intention of redoing even though it's way retro (these internet fashions do change SO quickly) [uh, maybe someday (NOT TODAY) I should revamp the color scheme (even *I* am getting tired of all the pink]. but I had massive layout envy with all the new and shinies vomiting out of SixApart and was so tired of staring at the asceticism of Flexible Squares. so yeah, I lost about 24 hours of my life to this OCD moment, mostly because I don't know what I'm doing, but all in all it wasn't a bad 24 hours to lose. here's what happened:

I made a completely new Flexible Squares stylesheet with more whitespace, but was ultimately unsatisfied. *headdesk*

I started googling layout shit and browsing the MT style archive, but it quickly became clear to me that converting any of these to livejournal wasn't going to be a simple undertaking (too bad, because I totally covet TV Signal!). in the course of this, though, I learned some about the new layouts and the style contest.

I decided to work with the style contest style Fleur, which I downloaded the files for (you can also find URLs of your style sheet by viewing the source of your lj pages).

I attempted to put together an external stylesheet for lj, which was going really well until for some reason lj started spitting out "suspect CSS" errors. I still have no idea what broke it. I mean, there was a missing } but I fixed that and it still wasn't working hours later.

I gave up and pulled out the relevant bits for the CSS override box. you can find that by clicking on "Custom CSS" here. it's a clunky workaround but the results are effective.

I have a new Fleur-based layout! you can see (and share!) the overrides I used here.

p.s. last call for questions on that one meme on that one post.

eta: the tinyicons (pink and grey people) I'm using are by passing_girl (see my CSS for the code).

Tags: eljay