Hooky for Crossroads

[itsanooray]

Title: Hooky Credit to: betterdolphin Base style: Crossroads (specifically "Lettuce") Type: CSS Best resolution: Made on 1280 x 1024 Tested in: IE7-9, Firefox, Chrome (see post for notes on IE) Features: Fixed/scrolling sidebar, fixed navigation, icons, many variations Find it all here!

NOTE: My first Dreamwidth layout converting a LJ layout for a DW format. If I've missed anything, please feel free to tell me.

Comments

[itsanooray]

I'm incredibly new, so this is news to me. You can submit layouts to dreamwidth itself in hopes they'll use it?

[ninetydegrees]

Absolutely! The vast majority of styles and themes have been made by 'ordinary' users. As a thank you, you get points when the style becomes official. If you'd like to submit yours, here's the entry explaining how it all works and what you need to do: http://dreamscapes.dreamwidth.org/2447.html (which, to sum up, is post your style, finished or not, and send/mail a Contributor License Agreement to Denise :).

[itsanooray]

Intriguing! I probably wouldn't submit this layout because there's a few flaws (ie: the layout won't work on comment pages), but I'll keep it in mind for any future layouts I'll make! :3

[ninetydegrees]

I probably wouldn't submit this layout because there's a few flaws (ie: the layout won't work on comment pages)

It would be ok anyway. I don't know why it won't work but someone may have a solution for that, maybe using S2 instead of CSS. If you submitted it would probably get converted to a Tabula Rasa layout instead of a Crossroads one because TR is so much more flexible (and Crossroads is based on Tabula Rasa already). The only potential problem I see here is the images as I don't know if they're yours or licensed in such a way that the site could use them but that can be solved one way or another (by getting permission, using other similar images or using an image-free version). But it's up to you, of course. :)

[itsanooray]

I could do it with CSS, but if I did it that way I would have to restructure it all so it's similar to the layout but not exact (assuming of course DW has unique classes in the body tag for those pages, but I believe they do). I may do it when I next have free time for it and then think about submitting it.

I'll look into using Tabula Rasa as a base for any new layouts, I was wondering what the best base layout to use would be.

All the icons I used on there are from here which is free to use for commercial and free projects, so I imagine it could be used, but it'd be easy to email the iconmakers.