"I'm thinking." "Pastels!"

[sepdet]

Hm. Not entirely happy with this wimpy color set (except I had fun making leaves). However, LJ customization is not something I feel like learning right now. (Although if anyone feels like telling me how exactly you all got your pretty LJs to work, that would be much appreciated!)

I want something striking and clean and a little dramatic, not kleenex box.
Mainly, I want:
~ userpics
~ clearly defined breaks between entries
~ maximum use of screen space (no calendar)
~ background image or at least a top border
~ clean fonts

However, I tried all the other themes and all of them seemed to be missing one or another of these elements.

The main reason was that I know how many people hate the invisible cursor problem which crops up with the black-background LJ layouts that I prefer!

[[ EDIT: Ah, there, nevermind, I've taught myself enough to make a more comfortable-looking interface. ]]

Comments

[riumplus.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to copy the design I made for my LiveJournal (http://riumplus.livejournal.com/) and use it for your own... Although it shows up best in Firefox, it can be tweaked to appear acceptable by other browsers, just without as many fancy parts. It's nice and minimalistic, nice well-defined edges to the posts, customizable colours/fonts/positions/styles, loads slightly faster than a lot of the other default styles (I tried to minimize database reads and keep the character count as low as I could), and I tried hard to manually override parts of the journal to help it produce more-valid-than-usual HTML (there's some errors in the HTML that make it not validate which I tried hard to remove through overrides, but I couldn't get all of 'em).

Oh, and it also is usable by a free account, since that's all I had when I designed it. You need to use S1 and basically just copy/paste segments into the manual overrides section. You lose tagging support because you're using an S1 style, however.

So, yeah. Feel free to use my design or something, if you want :P

[sepdet.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you, RIUM+! Longtime no see.

Well, that would be because I wandered off into LOTR land, now wouldn't it? Bah. Anyway, thankye!