dreamwidthlayouts | Ch-ch-changes

Hi guys! I'm Anita, and I'm your new maintainer here at

dreamwidthlayouts. I inherited this responsibility from the ever-fabulous

grrliz, who wasn't able to keep up with the community anymore.

I'm going to be making some minor changes to the community just to ensure it's more functional for both layout makers and layout users. On the agenda:

Establish a list of standard tags to make browsing easier. I'm thinking tags for style (Tabula Rasa, etc) as well as type (Simple, etc.), feature (# of columns, custom header, etc) and color. Are there any other kind of tags you would find useful? (I see that Liz took a survey about tags last year, but I'd like to ask again since it's been so long.)

Establish a standard format for posting layouts to the community so that users can see at a glance what sort of layout it is. What information would you guys like included on the form?

A custom layout for the community. If I were to have a contest, would any of you actually submit designs?

Your feedback on the above and the community is GREATLY appreciated. While we do have several folks posting fairly frequently (And we LOVE them ♥), I think it's fair to say that if we're members of this community, we agree that it's past time for us to get a lot more custom layouts available for DW. I want to encourage that in any way I can.

Thanks!

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I'll note that usernames here can be 10 characters longer than on LJ, which can make underneath strategies a bit more difficult to accomplish gracefully.

That is a good point which had not occurred to me. Nevertheless, I would still like to put in a vote for screenshots of the Reading Page. Some of the layouts put the username in places I find much more problematic than others, and I will generally skip a layout entirely rather than going to the trouble of setting it up to see which kind it will be.