Guidelines & Info

[alchemy]

Need a pre-made Dreamwidth-specific layout for your brand new Dreamwidth journal? Look no further! dreamwidthlayouts is your one stop shop for posting and/or discovering new layouts for use on your Dreamwidth Journal.

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[ RULES | POST FORMAT | TAGS | CONTACT ]

Rules

1. All posts must contain a layout or tutorial. No text-only posts unless pre-approved by the maintainers/moderators. Code snippets are okay, provided they are for use with Dreamwidth layouts.


2. Layouts must be Dreamwidth-specific. Please do not re-post old LJ layouts unless you have specifically adapted them for Dreamwidth use. (E.g. posting an old Mixit layout for use with Core 1 would not be acceptable.) "Prêt-à-porter" is the community motto.


3. Layouts must be accessible to all account levels, paid or otherwise. Money should not be a requirement for good design!


4. Layouts must be posted in a public post, either here or in your own journal. No posting in locked posts and forcing people to add you / join your community, etc. [It is okay to post your layout in an LJ journal/community.]


5. The "NO" list: no requests, no hotlinking, no images larger than 300px outside of a cut, no profile codes.


6. Layout makers: Please use the form below to format your posts, and apply all applicable tags.


7. Please respect requests for credit on behalf of the creators.


8. This is not a help community. Individual layout makers may be able to assist you with things related to their layouts, but this community is not a place to ask for generic help on Dreamwidth layouts in general. If you need general help, try the friendly folks at style_system.


9. Be nice.

Post Format

As mentioned above, do not post images larger than 300px outside of a cut! Use the following template to post your layouts or snippets. You may add any additional information/instructions, but please include the following basic info and use common sense when applying cuts. (The only exception to this rule is tutorials, in which case please just use your best judgment. Tutorials should apply to Dreamwidth layouts only.)

<strong>Title:</strong> <strong>Credit to:</strong> <strong>Base style:</strong> <strong>Type:</strong> <strong>Best resolution:</strong> <strong>Tested in:</strong> <strong>Features:</strong>

Key

Title: What you call your layout/snippet
Credit to: Who users should credit for use
Base style: Tabula Rasa, Transmogrified, etc.
Type: Full layout in layers, full layout in CSS, code snippet, etc.
Best resolution: 800x600, 1024x768, etc.
Tested in: Browsers you've tested the layout/code in
Features: Any special features

Remember that the "Preview" button is your friend!

Tags

Please apply tags liberally! All community members may add tags to posts, so if you notice a tag missing on a post, please do everyone the favor of adding it. If we are lacking a tag you think we need in the list, please comment to this post.

STYLES style: bases style: basic boxes style: blanket style: boxes and borders style: brittle style: colorside style: core1 style: crisped style: crossroads style: drifting style: easyread style: five am style: fluid measure style: funky circles style: modish style: modular style: negatives style: nouveau oleanders style: refried tablet style: skittlish dreams style: stepping stones style: sunday morning style: tabula rasa style: tranquility iii style: transmogrified	THEMES theme: bright theme: dark on light theme: fannish theme: light on dark theme: muted theme: nature theme: neutrals theme: pastel theme: retro theme: seasonal theme: simple	COLORS color: aqua color: black color: blue color: bright color: brown color: gray color: green color: orange color: pink color: purple color: tan color: teal color: red color: white color: yellow
FEATURES feature: 1 column feature: 2 columns feature: 3 columns feature: comment pages feature: customizable feature: fixed width feature: fluid width feature: header feature: no header	TYPE type: layers type: css type: code snippet type: full layout type: tutorial	BROWSERS tested in: camino tested in: chrome tested in: firefox tested in: flock tested in: internet explorer tested in: netscape tested in: opera tested in: safari

Contact

Maintainer: alchemy
If you need to contact me about the community, please comment here or send me a PM. Please do not leave random comments in my personal journal. Thank you!

Comments

[songfire]

Thank you!

It would be great if you could cross-post this to lj_refugees - I'm sure it would be much appreciated!

[timeasmymeasure]

These are great, thanks so much =D

[foxfirefey]

If you like, you can point people to style_system for rule #8.

[falena]

I just wanted to thank you for all the effort you're putting into making this comm more functional. Having a place where you can find pretty and easy-to-install layouts was one of the few 'missing things' here on DW. So, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

[lilmoka]

That's just amazing! *hearts the whole entry*

[chimney]

requesting the addition of style: crisped to the tag list!

[witchka]

I was wondering if you could please add style: compartmentalize to the tags?

I started going through the posts and trying to tag them correctly as much as one can. There are a lot of posts that have dead links, would you like those reported? Or some help somehow?

eta: actually most of the styles of missing. We could also use style: practicality, style: mobility, style: venture, style: neutral good, style: trifecta, style: tectonic, style: patsy, style: planet caravan I went pretty much all the way back and I think these are all the style tags we are missing but have layouts for. Thank you.

[sireesanwar]

Can we add the style: bannering? I've done two layouts in Bannering and working on more.