let's see how this works.

[kaigou]

okay, slightly less grumpy layout style, now. hrmmm. got to say, I really don't care for css where there's eighty freaking titles and embeds on every level. whatever happened to the notion of simple and elegant code?

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[girl-starfish.livejournal.com]

It looks good to me!

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Thanks! there's still some stuff to work on, on the comment pages, but it's getting there. needed mental break, wahhhh.

[girl-starfish.livejournal.com]

I believe you. That's the second reason my layout hasn't changed since ... 2003?

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

at least you know how to code. I need to learn that one of these days . . .

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

No no no. YOU WRITE. Do not deprive me of one of the few authors I still read, woman!

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

Course of late I don't even know if I like what I write . . .

I think I need to call crazy writers anonymous

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Uhm, let me charge the cellphone first, okay? I want extra insurance after YOU KILLED ME LAST ONE.

(heh, that still cracks me up.)

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

that reminds me: SEND ME HQ SCAN OF YOUR MAPS (erm when you wake up again that is). Will take a bit & play & see what I can come up with.

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting on the new crosspointe one now. I have jpegs and I have a pdf. Will one of those do?

I've also decided that as some point that I want to try making leather masks. I may suck at it, but I love the idea of masks. Enough that I'm sort of pondering a book in that direction (hence the need to try making them)

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

The jpgs would be perfect. Send!

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

Soon as I get back to MT. They are on my other puter, as it turns out.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

No problem -- just make note to yourself. ;-)

[branchandroot]

*tips head* What's your overflow setting? It looks a bit as though I'm getting the right side cropped off without getting a scroll bar at the bottom. Are the user pics supposed to be really hard up against the right side of the page? (I can't see the right side of their black border.)

That said, it's quite snazzy.

*amused* I used to think Expressive was /wildly/ over-divved, but I have since found a tendency in myself to at least do inner and outer on everything, and four layers on header and content, so I can do things like rounded corners in a completely liquid layout. I haven't gotten to Expressive's level, yet, but I've clearly been corrupted.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Hrm, no idea... which browser are you using? I've only the means to test in FFX2 & Safari, so if it's wonky in MSIE I'll never know unless I get off my duff & test it on CP's PC. (Bleah.)

Yeah, Exp/Mixit is totally overdivved, and I'm dubious as to whether it's really worth it. (Sometimes I think that's done solely to make it very very hard to rip CSS from an existing layout, damn those bastards.) When I'm coding from scratch for myself, I find myself narrowing it down more and more until I have the absolute minimum of classes, and reusing as much as I can. Unfortunately that's pretty impossible with LJ, it seems (and let's not even get started on the layouts still using tables, ugh).

Any chance you can throw a screenshot my way, so I can get an idea of how it looks -- and what are your browser dimensions? I ended up doing this one at 960px layout, which is definitely wider than I'm comfortable with, but on a iMac screen, 700px wide is a freaking single newspaper column AAAUUUGHHH.

[branchandroot]

I'm using Camino (Gecko kernal, Quartz rendering), and I do keep my browser pretty narrow. I'd guess it's about 800px wide. From what I can see, the content is trying to go all the way to the right edge, and nipping underneath the right scrollbar, so I lose about ten pixels or 1em. This could be a Camino quirk, Camino does throw some strange ones every now and then. My favorite is having to set any text field at width:100% in order to keep it from overrunning the right side of its container. Definite augh material.

*wry* When I was doing expressive, I finally gave up and just made an empty style sheet with every single div on it, to fill in. I usually only used a third of them.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

GUH. Okay, try now? Narrowed it up a little, but sadly it's never going to work as a flexible width (my preference). Eh, well, at least it's closer to 950 than 1000... although there's no code for overflow, nor is there a min width setting, and I'm not sure I'm up to messing with it, if it's at least legible. (Erm, is it? Oi, the whackiness...)

[branchandroot]

Ah, yes, that did it! Very nice indeed.

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

I like the new layout! It's immersive, without being intrusive -- a subtle balance you don't often find.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

I was aiming for legible, so it if it's not intrusive, then I'll settle for being happy with that. Wah!