sneakers of the day

Vans watermelon sneakers in two styles, the classic slip-on and the basic tennis shoe that looks like a Keds knock-off (or it would if not watermelon coloured) called "Authentic".

styling dw

I read a couple of people's tutorials about how to copy and paste the code wholesale from public lj layers and styles, but the thing is that most of those styles are either rejects because they're unwieldy and ugly, or because they have, like, zero functionality. For me, a full tag list is a must in a journal style, which left very few options. I decided to see what I could do with Negatives, the current dw default style, since it's already up to date with the updated core2 version of S2 (thread-expanding functionality, tracking, hover menus, etc). (I'm posting this here because I honestly have no idea where you'd put such things on DW. I get the idea that there might not be any amateur style communities yet.)

First, without any knowledge of CSS, ( here is how you can theoretically change the colors and font in Negatives )

( How to get at the CSS of Negatives, if you know some CSS )