Dreamwidth Layouts

bzzinglikeneon gave me permission to post a reminder here: if you're posting your awesome new style or theme to dreamwidthlayouts, please also consider submitting it to dreamscapes, which is the community for submitting layout layers and theme layers to Dreamwidth for conversion and addition to the available system choices at the Select Journal Style area. You can submit either new styles or themes for existing styles.

The submission guidelines go into detail about what we need for a system style in terms of browser compatability, design guidelines, etc. You can submit new styles as either S2 layers, or as a CSS stylesheet to be applied against an existing style. (For best and fastest results in getting a whole new style added to the site, S2 layer submission is easiest for us; second easiest is a CSS stylesheet to be applied against the Tabula Rasa style, which is designed to have no real styling itself but serves as a CSS-classed "blank slate" like the CSS Zen Garden project.)

When submitting a style to us for inclusion on the site, we ask that you send us a Contributor Licensing Agreement, or CLA. This agreement explicitly gives us a non-exclusive license to redistribute your work (both on dreamwidth.org itself and as part of our open source codebase) and protects you by explicitly stating that you keep all the intellectual property inherent in your design: you aren't signing over your work, you're just letting us use it.

Things get a little more complex if you're including any images that you didn't make yourself; any images you use in a design you submit for official use need to be licensed under terms that allow us to use and redistribute it. If you aren't sure, we'll do the checking on that for you: just be sure to include information on where you got the image when you make the submission.

To help reward people who contribute styles and themes, we have a Dreamwidth Points bounty on all submissons: when a style or theme you create is added to the site, you'll receive 30 points per theme, and 90 points per style.

Right now we're particularly looking for holiday themes of all types -- secular, religious, national, seasonal, etc. But we'd love to see anything you come up with!

If you've got any questions, feel free to ask me! I really love a lot of the creative themes and styles we've been seeing here in dreamwidthlayouts, and I'd love to be able to add them as system styles.