oh and. lj style customization question.

[cimorene]

so my little sister is out of town for the week, but i'm thinking i'm going to create a livejournal layout for her--and a journal, obviously--while she's gone. can someone tell me how to make the boxes in the 'generator' style narrow and on the right side of the screen? like, do you alter them up in the 'event' boxes, or down in the one that has the html for the page at once? and how do you make them over on the right side of the screen but still with a border on the outside--is that called a 'cushion'? if you can't explain that in a few sentences, don't bother, 'cause if i can't understand it that fast it's probably not worth it. i can make her a layout without an image in the background.

[edit: thanks to loreleif and uluviel. i figured it out. who'd've thought there's a howto journal?]

Comments

[loreleif.livejournal.com]

What the heck, I was bored. -g-

Is this (http://www.livejournal.com/customview.cgi?user=loreleif&styleid=117193) what you meant? (Ignore the eye-bleeding colours; what works on my page really doesn't with this layout!)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i'm not sure if that would work or not, because then the image would go behind the words themselves, wouldn't it? well, that might, actually... if i tweaked it to make the background inside the 'event' box the page background color too, and then just the box outlines would float over the image. anyway. so how did you do it?

[loreleif.livejournal.com]

No, the way I did it uses two table cells; one is blank, one holds the event, so you could easily put the picture in the blank cell on the left. When you said you wanted the border still on the outside, I thought that was the look you were going for. If you just want boxes with borders on the right side of the screen and the background everywhere else, that's different, and just as easy. I made the code public; it's #117193, if you want to take it and tweak it. Or tweak Uluviel's, if that's what you were looking for.

Best of luck!