Blog style

[lethargic_man]

Any S2 experts who can help me get my Dreamwidth blog looking like my LiveJournal one without having to spend ages learning S2 (as my LiveJournal blog uses S1)?

Comments

[liv]

You probably shouldn't need to learn S2; DW is set up so you can do nearly anything with CSS plus wizard options, unless you want to actually be able to program your style. I assume you were using CSS for your S1 style on LJ, right?

What I think will work:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/

Type Refried in the search box; that gives you the DW version of your LJ style. You probably want to choose the Classic theme. Then click the Customize your theme button. In the Images tab of the wizard, add your background texture to all the sections except Header. Save changes. In the Font tab, set the page font to 80% (or fiddle that number until it looks right to you.) You might want to faff with Colors a bit; I think your links are a non-default colour. But that gets you most of the way there; see livredor for an example).

If there's an effect you can't reproduce just by picking the right settings, try adding some CSS in the CSS tab. This sorts out most of it, but does leave some thicker black lines than the ones in the LJ version:
.body, .module {
border: solid 0.1em #000000;
}

#header h2.module-header {
border-bottom: solid 0.1em #000000;
}

[lethargic_man]

That (and a little more fiddling) did the job very nicely indeed. Thanks for helping me out.