Snowflake Challenge - Day Seven

[ithildin]

Fandom is filled to the brim with all kinds of talented people. From writers of both stories and meta to reccers to artists who have some awesome skills. Some of us have a blast creating, but might not be as vocal about wanting fannish things.

Today’s the day to say “You know what would be greatness? If someone made (blank) for me.”

I have a hard time asking for stuff, which is probably why I've only participated in this sort of thing a total of once before. But I'll screw myself up to do it today.


I'm not an artist, or good enough at graphics, and one of the things I've wanted for a while would require me being. [points to icon] My character, Charlotte Sparrow, is based visually on a nineteenth century opera singer, Lina Cavalieri. There's a fair amount of photos of her in period opera costumes, which is terrific for historic images of Charlotte, but I have nothing for modern day. Okay, so this is farfetched, but doesn't hurt to ask, right?

An Avengers fan mix - if everyone had a most played song on their MP3 player, what would it be? And speaking of Avengers, someone with mad banner making skilz making a banner for avengersblend. That would be awesome!

Last, I think would be cool to read what happened when Loki joined the Halloween party after my story, Variations On A Theme For Cowboys, ends. I'm pretty sure others could come up with much more fun scenarios than I could. Female!Loki and Natasha perhaps? They'd sure be pretty together!

Okay, I did it. Now to hit post....

Comments

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I've tried a half dozen so far - see how you like the one up currently.

I will ponder :)

[valiha.livejournal.com]

It's this image that's creating problems for my eyes: http://l-stat.livejournal.com/voxhtml/weston-blue/bg-body-shadow.gif?v=1. When you scroll, it kind of starts... flashing? I guess.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. [curses the free LJ themes!] I shall tinker some more [g]

[valiha.livejournal.com]

you can simply do a search for the image and just delete it from the css style. the background-color of your #container is background-color: transparent; so that should probably be changed to a color (e.g. background-color: #000000; will give you a black background).

You can choose a color and copy the hex code from http://genopal.com/ which I find very useful.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Errr.... okay? Well, I've changed it another six times and not sure I remember where I was LOL

[valiha.livejournal.com]

Well, in any case, just let me know which theme you used, and I will figure out the css necessary to add a header.

(It just occurred to me that you probably didn't go to the edit css tab but used the stock layouts; that's fine too - I'll check a few design comms I frequent and see what the appropriate codes are for the layout.)

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I'll try and tinker with the code tomorrow and see what I can do.

Thanks again!

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Okay, looks like you don't have access to the CSS if you have an unpaid account. You go to the CSS tab and there's nothing there.

Later: now I'm wondering if we can even use a banner on an unpaid account. Well, foo! Maybe will have to start paying for it to get it like I want :)

[valiha.livejournal.com]

No, you have nothing there because you haven't made any changes to it. Mine is a free account, and I am constantly tinkering with my layout. I go to a design comm, look at all the wonderful user made themes, choose one, and maybe tinker with it, then paste the css inside the box, an I have a layout based on, say default Flexible Squares, but looks completely different from it.

It's when it comes to custom layers that free users can't make any changes, but they involve a special LJ language called S2. I only dealt with it once, long ago, when someone gifted me with some paid time.

Design comms will usually spell out all the instructions to you, e.g 1. copy this code, 2. go to your edit css tab, 3. uncheck use layout's stylesheets (or leave as is) 4. paste the code. thefulcrum by grrliz is an excellent comm for very customizable thems, where you can search layouts according tp style, color, flexibility, images etc.

(I'm probably overwhelming you; sorry, that wasn't my intention!)

((And I should probably get to bed since it's already well past midnight here. i might have some banner ideas for you later today.))

ETA "Later: now I'm wondering if we can even use a banner on an unpaid account. Well, foo! Maybe will have to start paying for it to get it like I want :)"

Absolutely no need. Have a look at one of thefulcrum layouts, let me know which one you think might work and I'll edit it for you. There's no reason why you should limit yourself to stock LJ offers. :)

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I'm actually watching that comm, but thought it was only useable if you had a paid account. I did see some there that looked really nice. I'll poke around tomorrow and see what's there.

Thanks for all the trouble :) I did settle on a theme for now - no patterns!

[valiha.livejournal.com]

Usually I have no problem with patterns, but that one was really giving me headaches. Maybe it's because it's getting time for me to go on a check up to see if I need another pair of glasses. I'm so sorry for putting you through all this trouble!

Oh no, paid accounts can edit custom layers by using the S2 LJ programming language, and free accounts can edit the CSS to their hearts' content. Sometimes that results in unrecognizable differences between the LJ stock and the CSS layout.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry for putting you through all this trouble!

Hey, once you've had to try and help me install a custom theme, I'll have more than paid you back [snicker]

I don't know why I thought free accounts were unchangeable. I think I misinterpreted something I read on a theme community.

I messaged dragonsinger to let her know I'm planning on demolishing the comm. She isn't around it much, but wanted to give her a head's up. Would it be okay if I moved this to email? Probably more efficient means of communication :) My address is ithildin at ondragonswing.com