Cimorene

Today is the last day Wax has to work before her vacation (the first of two shorter ones) starts as well. It's been a pretty long week waiting for that. We have several projects we want to start right away and I'm really excited about stripping and painting our front door.

I got a bee in my bonnet about modifying my dreamwidth layout, which I frequently use from my phone, and digging into css always puts me in a time-devouring vortex. I have made some progress, but I'm starting to think I took the wrong approach and I may need to start over.

So, I spent about 14 hours in the Dreamwidth Styles Vortex last night trying to:

1. Fix the flaws in the other themes of my style which I shared publicly a long time ago


2. Make a few new styles


3. Separate every theme out into two levels (fonts & sizes vs. colors & background images)


4. Migrate hard-coded CSS elements to DWS2C2 elements which can be customized by the end-user via the wizard


5. Take every single theme I separated out and put them all back together (because the wizard only allows 1 theme layer and the User layer is auto-generated, so the colors kinda have to go in the theme after all)

Well... on the minus side, I became glassy eyed, stayed up till 6am, and didn't finish. And didn't finish reading the bunch of open story tabs I meant to read either. On the plus side, I figured out how it worked and successfully got the wizard working, even though I didn't finish bringing the themes over, and it actually is pretty easy.

On the OTHER minus side, I then slept too late to go to the post office yet AGAIN (post office closes at 4, I think, until Christmas season starts. Or maybe it's 6? I can never make sense of these bizarre Finnish business hours). I have it on good authority that the package contains 3 separate pieces of Iittala china from my Wonderkilling Grandpa Bob and his wife, which is Wax's and my first wedding present of the traditional type.

I woke up today and hooked my mouse and monitor back to Six again (because a WinBorg machine will not boot up and run without interface devices - LAME), turned my computer on in server mode, and copied all the files I've accumulated there over, then turned them both off and switched back over, so I'm now booted up at home on Leia and with all the bookmarks and images I've saved in the past few weeks moved back over. Plus, like 12 hours ago Wax finally got Samba working on Kubuntu again. Apparently the problem is that it doesn't come built into KDE the way it does in Gnome. So our LAN is back at last.

6 more themes for my original dreamwidth layout, Paper Me, which I posted yesterday here (same instructions, 13 other themes). Despite being a brilliant-colored creature at heart, I added some slightly more dignified/soothing/low-contrast/neutral color schemes (and also some brilliant, one might say neon-colored ones). ( Read more... )

~♔ We have a new niece, currently 5 days old, born to Brother Linux and his wife. (They're both my age, he's 6½ ft tall, she's like 5'3" and a wholesome beauty-queen pocket Venus, they fight crime.) Sofia Lumi (the middle name means 'snow' in Finnish) is tinier and cuter than expected.

~♔ We wanted to move, but our potential housemate fell through and we are very disappointed.

~♔ I've been tweaking the innards of my layout with an eye to cleaning up the code and offering it to share on dreamwidthlayouts (non-official journal style community for DW-specific layouts only, which means that they, unlike the imported LJ styles, are fully compatible with all DW's awesome new functionality). I rearranged the entry and fixed the problem where floated images from my RSS feeds were overflowing their entries and messing up my reading page and FINALLY got the bottom page navigation (ie 'Previous 20 Entries') to display at the bottom of the page and not (a) in the middle of the sidebar like it was before or (b) under the last item on the sidebar (which was somewhere halfway down the page on my reading page because my reading page is usually kind of long). I don't know why applying clear:both to the page-bottom-navigation div didn't occur to me before, but it worked like a charm! Next step is to carefully remove the colors I hard-coded out of laziness from the CSS so they can be controlled completely with color properties.

Now that I've spent about 12 hours total css-styling my dreamwidth style (cimorene!), I like it much better than the lj style I based it on (cimness).

Except that I couldn't figure out why on earth the entry tags refuse to display inline, or why the currents are displaying with bullets (or more specifically, I can't find where the classes are to apply the style:none and display:inline to). I gave up temporarily. I'm sure I CAN find this information somewhere...