Because apparently I can have angst about ANYTHING.

[randomling]

Not cross-posting this, as it's Dreamwidth-specific.

I am having angst about journal styles. Which is ridiculous because there are only three to choose from. My current feeling is this:

1. Negative black is nice, but a bit... yeah, black. It tends to be what I use.
2. Zesty white is also nice, and feels a lot more spacious, but it's a bit... white!
3. Transmogrified - I quite like the layout but it won't display my subtitle and I hate-hate-hate the colour scheme. (Orange. Ugh!) And I look at the colour customization page and go, OMG FLAIL. It's so hard!

I know it should not be hard to change a few damn colours... but I have to choose what they should BE and I can't find any combinations that I like! Have tried focusing more on pinks and purples and blues but nothing works. It just feels like too much work!

I am not really looking for anything here, just - meep! I realize this is me whining about unimportant stuff, I do. But. Oh, I dunno. The style I use on LJ is not open source. Sigh!

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[revolutions]

Yep, I'm in Manchester! :)

I managed to get it set up as follows:

1. Go to the "Developer Area" in the Customize Journal Style section.

2. Click on "Your Layers" and create a new top-level layout layer using "Core 1".

3. Copy-paste the text here into it.

4. Go back to the "customize journal style" section, click on "select a new theme", click "your custom layers" in the style-selector thing, and select the "Flexible Squares" one that appears. You can then customize colours etc in the normal way, using the wizard.

... It worked ok for me, but I seem to have an odd glitch: on my friends page, I see the icons of people who've posted but not their usernames - I have to hover over the icon to see the username. Not sure what that's about.

[revolutions]

Never mind, a friend helped me out with the username glitch - the code that's up at linked above should work now, I changed it. :)

[turlough]

I snagged the FS code, I hope you don't mind? I was thinking of porting my FS layout to DW and now I don't have to hunt for the base layer before I do, thank you!