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The thing about the new Core2 style is--this is so much fun to modify. It is.

However, I am going to destroy worlds or possibly pick up a small but terribly inconvenient addiction to sniffing paint thinner if I cannot figure out how to override my damn comment layout.

I tried to use the function I modified from negatives--no go. That literally killed the page horribly like a drunken girlfriend near leather seats. Is anyone out there using the new core and has modified theirs successfully, or heck, tell me why when I use my own classes, it suicides messily and unreadably?

Anyone who can also tell me how to get previous out of the middle of my page summary will be given eternal devotion as well.

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[aveleh]

I will walk you through it online, if you'll document it for other people.

Deal?

[seperis]

I will document anything you want for eternity. Tonight?

[aveleh]

Yeah, I'm online right now. Emailing folks tonight was on my list for before I have to leave my house, but I still need to get the list organized, so getting someone started will make me at least get something accomplished.

IRC, aim, yahoo, LJ jabber: all work.

[seperis]

I'm seperis on yahoo and JenntheMerry on AIM.

[jan]

This. Document and post? I would like to read. &hearts

(I've been having the same problem with my layout; I resorted to clicking Preview and typing in that window.)

[bead]

ME TOO, for I hate my layout and know next to nothing about what I'm doing.

[seperis]

what do you want?

[seperis]

Is there anything specific? I don't know a huge amount, but I can help.

[out_there]

Hmmm. It's kind of odd, but the thing that's bothering me the most is having the icons on the right side of the comments. It just... I keep not recognising posters.

[seperis]

I'm trying to decide if I like it or not. It would actually be about fifty times easier to move everything left then keep trying to move the universe to shift right. Plus, honestly, I liked how my lj comments looked. I kind of want to go back to that. *G*

[out_there]

*laughs* It's amazing how much we're simple creatures of habit.

For me? I can't stand the reading pages, and I'm trying to work out the least irritating one. I mean, my flist on LJ is all white background, black text, with occasional lemon strips to help me track seperate days. It's uber-simple and I love it.

And I want something mainly white and easy to read on DW too. Or, alternatively, a page that looks like a Word document so I can check on it from work.

[out_there]

Although, huh, whatever I just did made the icon appear on the left again. (Or did you do something to your account? I really can't tell.)

Well, if the ugly reading page gives a comment page that works for me, I may have to keep it.

[seperis]

Did you check mine? It's all white, but with a left strip. You're welcome to the code. It looks like maybe it's pretty much debugged, but I can alter it to suit you if you like.

And yes, I moved everything left after you commented and found my proper comment page again. *g*

[out_there]

Ooooh, that's a lot nicer. (I had an urge to pet my screen, but didn't. I did, of course, make grabby hands and call it "precious". But that's just mandatory.)

By "welcome to the code" how much knowledge do I need to make it work? I'm good at following step-by-step instructions, but a little timid when it comes to much more than that.

[seperis]

Not too hard, I think.

[out_there]

Awesome.

[loriel_eris]

I've forgotten any LJ-esque coding I ever knew (read: it's been so long since I changed my layout/style etc that LJ has completely and utterly changed how one does it. About 3 times. Why, no. I am not bitter.) so the thought of trying to change stuff here leaves me cowering in mortal terror. And this is from someone who thinks herself pretty competent with HTML and css.

I think mainly, I just haven't worked up the courage to play around yet, and thus familiarity...

[seperis]

This isn't that bad. I mean, there's several ways to go about it, from just picking a layout and then overriding bits of it to working from the ground up. And I say this still not knowing half of waht the thing does. *g* just make a copy of your layout and use the copy to play with. It's a lot of fun.

[azdaja_dafema]

Ooh it's been so long since I've coded things but I need to get back into the habit. You, my dear, have damned me to an evening (or several) of glorious unproductivity.