I was just thinking about changing mine too, but don't know what I want to do yet. About the most I can do with coding is take the layout I have now, make a new header, and change the colours lol
I change my layout usually at least once a month. I procrastinate a lot, and when I do, I usually at some point end up writing a new layout, lol. I have them all saved on my homepage, it's an embarrassingly great amount. xD
But yay for new layouts! Idk how people stand having the same one for years; I'd get bored.
Aww ♥♥ thank you! :D I'm glad you like it so much, lol. And no, don't change your layout - I love that Doctor & Donna header! He's all, IZ MY DONNA. NO U CANT HAS. :D
It's gorgeous, absolutely! (Though my one complaint is that it took and age and a half to fully load on my slow connection, but the view was well worth it in the end. :-) )
Hee, yeah, my excuse for going wild with graphics in my layouts is that I always have the custom comment page turned off - so when people come here from their f-lists, they won't have to load all my twenty-seven graphics plus the icons, lol.
Yay for custom comment pages being turned off - personally, I *adore* you and anyone who has a fancy layout if they do this. I've typed ?format=light so many times these past few weeks that I'm starting to wear out the question mark key on keyboard.
I generally don't like journals that don't have the custom comment page turned off. Fancy layouts are awesome, but if you're accessing the comment page, that means you actually want to read the entry, not be awed by the layout. Custom layouts are prone to having tiny or really light fonts and quite narrow entry boxes - that's just not eye-friendly if you're really interested in what the journal is saying. And it's not like the default comment page is hideously ugly - it's functional and bug-free.
This is, of course, my opinion. I have heard a lot of varying opinions on journal layout dos and don'ts; I think every user sets up their own rules if they've been around for a while.
And it's not like the default comment page is hideously ugly
Hey, I think it's absolutely swell, considering everything else that can be mocked about lj. (I'm guilty of having mine on custom but only because it's the simplest layout there is and the fonts should be pretty basic on any browser - though I've seen the sizes sometimes change even on my own for no reason. @#$%^& lj @#$% )
Well, you've got, like, the most basic of basic layouts, lol, so having the custom comment page turned off wouldn't really make a lot of a difference. I was more talking about people who either have a really pretty layout that's completely illegible, or a customized standard layout - usually Flexible Squares - which they've either set to clashing colors or to colors that are just really hard on the eye if you're trying to actually read what's in the journal.
Random font size changes. Oh how I hate those. There should be a lock-down on the internet that doesn't allow anyone to use anything but 10pt default plus varying percentages thereof. Nghn.
There should be a lock-down on the internet that doesn't allow anyone to use anything but 10pt default plus varying percentages thereof. Nghn.
Word. Also, any and all fonts used for actual text that is longer than, say, 50 characters, should be either in the Serif or Times family. I can stomach Arial, but some of the other fonts newbie bloggers seem to be so keen on? My eyes, my eyes!
I do have a fondness for Trebuchet MS, but that sans-serif, so it's not too fancy. Other than that, I use Verdana or Arial. Sometimes Georgia, although only if it really fits with the layout. I have a distinct dislike for Times New Roman and will only use it on request in layouts I'm writing for other people. ;)
Using anything else is silly anyway. You could use Courier or Tahoma as well, but who would want to? Anything else is not guaranteed to be installed on every computer, and your pretty layout that you've coded completely in BeneventoTM shows up in boring old TNR for 9 out of 10 people.
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I was just thinking about changing mine too, but don't know what I want to do yet. About the most I can do with coding is take the layout I have now, make a new header, and change the colours lol
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I change my layout usually at least once a month. I procrastinate a lot, and when I do, I usually at some point end up writing a new layout, lol. I have them all saved on my homepage, it's an embarrassingly great amount. xD
But yay for new layouts! Idk how people stand having the same one for years; I'd get bored.
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CAN'T STOP CAPSLOCKING. CAN YOU TELL THAT I LIKE IT?!?!
A++
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Anyway, thanks again! :)
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Anyway, I'm glad you like it! ♥
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This is, of course, my opinion. I have heard a lot of varying opinions on journal layout dos and don'ts; I think every user sets up their own rules if they've been around for a while.
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Hey, I think it's absolutely swell, considering everything else that can be mocked about lj. (I'm guilty of having mine on custom but only because it's the simplest layout there is and the fonts should be pretty basic on any browser - though I've seen the sizes sometimes change even on my own for no reason. @#$%^& lj @#$% )
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Random font size changes. Oh how I hate those. There should be a lock-down on the internet that doesn't allow anyone to use anything but 10pt default plus varying percentages thereof. Nghn.
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Word. Also, any and all fonts used for actual text that is longer than, say, 50 characters, should be either in the Serif or Times family. I can stomach Arial, but some of the other fonts newbie bloggers seem to be so keen on? My eyes, my eyes!
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Using anything else is silly anyway. You could use Courier or Tahoma as well, but who would want to? Anything else is not guaranteed to be installed on every computer, and your pretty layout that you've coded completely in BeneventoTM shows up in boring old TNR for 9 out of 10 people.
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