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Marin ([personal profile] baisemain) wrote2022-08-24 10:54 pm
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LAYOUT: Proof


[ PREVIEW ]

Featuring: Simple sidebar, everyone's display names beside their journal entries, optional matching splash page.

LAST UPDATE 10/07/2025: Fixed bug with empty entry poster names.
12/12/2023: Fixed how entry poster names display in communities.
07/03/2023: Adjusted sidebar title/image/links to sit 50px higher on the page.
05/19/2023: Fixed incorrect value for "page-recent" width on splash page code.
10/29/2022: Fixed font of header in day view. Fixed alignment issues for nav icons on mobile.


INSTALLING THE THEME
  • Go to Your Layers under Advanced Customization. Under "Create a style-specific layer", select Type: Theme and Style: Tabula Rasa. Click "Create."

  • Your new blank theme is under your layers list. Click "Edit" under Actions. Make sure you're clicking the right item (the Type should be "theme" and the Name is "(none)").

  • Delete everything in the main window (i.e. it has layerinfo "type" = "theme"; in it). Paste in the text below. Click "Save & Compile" on top. (If it doesn't compile, go back and make sure you picked type "theme.")


  • Go to Your Custom Layers under Select Style. Find the theme called "Proof" and click "Apply Theme." (Select/Customize Style is also where you can set your Journal Title and Journal Subtitle, if you haven't done that yet.)

CUSTOMIZING YOUR LAYOUT
  • To add the sidebar image: go to Text under Customize Style. Find Text for the 'Custom Text' box, paste in the text below, and click "Save Changes." You can edit the image by going to Custom CSS (see below).
  • To customize your layout, you can change the values in Custom CSS:
    • Find and replace SIDEBAR_IMAGE_URL with your sidebar image. The image height and width can adjusted below that line.

    • Every colour is named in the CSS, but if you're overwhelmed, here's the colours I used:
      • #FFF    - borders
      • #FFF3F7 - bg color of sidebar icons, blockquotes, entry poster names
      • #F5E6E8 - main bg, sidebar title
      • #AAA1C8 - main link color, date/time color
      • #967AA1 - sidebar color
      • #192A51 - main text color, icon colors, bg color of sidebar links & entry poster display names

    • By default, this layout uses "Homemade Apple" (script font) and "Nunito Sans" (sans-serif font) but you can swap those out in the Custom stylesheet URL.

  • To add sidebar links: go to Links List.

  • A few things you might also want to do:
    • Disable customized comment pages: Go to Display Settings, scroll down to Entry Page Default: Your Journal and uncheck the box. Then go to Entry Pages: Shown to You and swap that over to "Site skin."

    • Disable the contextual hover over icons: Go to Display Settings, scroll down to Hover Menu and change the dropdown to "Nothing."


OPTIONAL SPLASH PAGE
  • Go to Post an Entry. Click Edit Date. Check Don't show on Reading Pages.

  • Post the following into the entry. Edit the SPLASH_IMG_URL, SPLASH_TITLE, SPLASH_SUBTITLE and the links.
  • Post the entry and copy the URL of the entry. Go Display Settings and find IDs or URLs of Sticky Entries. Paste your entry URL into "Sticky 1" and click the "Save" button.

  • Go to Custom CSS and paste in the following at the bottom of Use embedded CSS:
  • You're done! Check your journal to see if the splash page is showing.

Please ask below if you have any questions! I'm always happy to help people customize this layout if they want something in particular.
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[personal profile] vriddy 2022-09-18 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
This looks great! (And loving the Gundam Wing refs :D)