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Some Things, Part 1
1. I am now declaring myself Officially Caught Up after those sixteen days I was offline for Pennsic! *whew*
2. I have started working on tidying up my last few loose ends on LJ. I finally imported my old LJ entries, and I'm planning tonight/tomorrow to reshuffle my filters and friends there and make one last sticky post. This seems like an apropos time, yeah?
But! As part of this, I decided to try to fix my ancient and deeply crufty and broken custom style by just switching over to one of the S2 site styles, since I never plan on having a paid account there.
There is only one thing I require of a journal style: I want the friends colors to stretch vertically down the height of every entry on my reading page. (see my current DW reading list for a demonstration of what I mean, although it doesn't have to be exactly like that as long as the color's some kind of vertical bar). I'm usually reading in a window that is very narrow due to having about fifty open tabs taking up screen estate, so having that visual cue of what entry I'm reading even if I can't see the top of the entry is very, very useful.
None of the public LJ styles seem to do this, unless I'm missing something. So, I thought, fine, I will switch to flexible squares, and I will teach myself just enough custom CSS to do this. Only, as far as I can tell, you can't do that with style sheets. What I need to be able to do, I think : specify the height of an element as a value relative to the height of its parent element. Does anybody know how to do that? The best advice I could get from Google was "um, I think you might have to use tables to do that", which was an excellent bit of schadenfreude but not helpful.
(And yes, the next step is fix my DW layout. And tags.)
3. I have posted fic ! And you can't see it!
Specifically, my let's-be-realistic goal for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
kink_bingo was to get one square filled by the points deadline. And I did! Just barely, but I posted James May/Oz Clarke Vampire AU RPS to topgearslash just before the deadline, thus filling my "bites/bruises" square, and crossposted to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
topgearslash the next day. Alas they're both locked communities, so unless you decide to join, you can't see my story until I decide to update my AO3 account.
And while I was glazed with victory from that, I started posting a story at the new Top Gear Anon Porn meme, but I'm so not brave enough to say which one. (you can probably guess, though. It's in my style: unfinished WIP. :P )
2. I have started working on tidying up my last few loose ends on LJ. I finally imported my old LJ entries, and I'm planning tonight/tomorrow to reshuffle my filters and friends there and make one last sticky post. This seems like an apropos time, yeah?
But! As part of this, I decided to try to fix my ancient and deeply crufty and broken custom style by just switching over to one of the S2 site styles, since I never plan on having a paid account there.
There is only one thing I require of a journal style: I want the friends colors to stretch vertically down the height of every entry on my reading page. (see my current DW reading list for a demonstration of what I mean, although it doesn't have to be exactly like that as long as the color's some kind of vertical bar). I'm usually reading in a window that is very narrow due to having about fifty open tabs taking up screen estate, so having that visual cue of what entry I'm reading even if I can't see the top of the entry is very, very useful.
None of the public LJ styles seem to do this, unless I'm missing something. So, I thought, fine, I will switch to flexible squares, and I will teach myself just enough custom CSS to do this. Only, as far as I can tell, you can't do that with style sheets. What I need to be able to do, I think : specify the height of an element as a value relative to the height of its parent element. Does anybody know how to do that? The best advice I could get from Google was "um, I think you might have to use tables to do that", which was an excellent bit of schadenfreude but not helpful.
(And yes, the next step is fix my DW layout. And tags.)
3. I have posted fic ! And you can't see it!
Specifically, my let's-be-realistic goal for
kink_bingo was to get one square filled by the points deadline. And I did! Just barely, but I posted James May/Oz Clarke Vampire AU RPS to topgearslash just before the deadline, thus filling my "bites/bruises" square, and crossposted to topgearslash the next day. Alas they're both locked communities, so unless you decide to join, you can't see my story until I decide to update my AO3 account.And while I was glazed with victory from that, I started posting a story at the new Top Gear Anon Porn meme, but I'm so not brave enough to say which one. (you can probably guess, though. It's in my style: unfinished WIP. :P )
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(HURRICANE!)
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Although I will note that the classic layout does it with tables rather than CSS. :D And tables are meant to be bad, these days.
(I am jealous!)
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(ETA: I should probably add "Be careful and don't get killed, we love you!" to that, shouldn't I?")