I guess I just resent having to fiddle with stuff because I shouldn't have to I think you can make the vast majority of their layouts 100% better by reducing the base font size and the margin widths--like, yeah, a lot of them are a bit plain, but they are totally serviceable if you do just those two things. It's not like 'flexible squares' is a masterpiece of graphic design. TBH, it does annoy me that the defaults on DW are so huge and boxy, 'cause I like pretty things, but they do it in the name of accessibility, so . . .
I even made an icon! The keywords are 'Change is bad'. Tanya <3 Genuine lol.
Well I've got the Librarian one you pointed me towards, and it's not terrible. I'll let you know when I've got a list together. ;) You know where to find me!
Right, I shall bookmark that, since LJ did something REALLY AWKWARD when I tried to check a banner. Maybe still just server weirdness?
(I thought I had avoided that by keeping the old style BUT APPARENTLY NOT. I hope it's just a glitch.) Are they letting people keep that in perpetuity, or were there plans to phase it out? I'll admit I didn't pay much attention since I didn't have a paid account and I actually liked the new site skin (I even changed my flist over to it as soon as they gave you the option.)
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I think you can make the vast majority of their layouts 100% better by reducing the base font size and the margin widths--like, yeah, a lot of them are a bit plain, but they are totally serviceable if you do just those two things. It's not like 'flexible squares' is a masterpiece of graphic design. TBH, it does annoy me that the defaults on DW are so huge and boxy, 'cause I like pretty things, but they do it in the name of accessibility, so . . .
although what I'm really grumpy about is LJ making itself continually more problematic.
Genuine, non-sarcastic question: people understand that it's not going to get better, right? LIke, I totally get not wanting to leave your people and I get having invested in the place and not wanting to give that up and I get not wanting to have to take the time and effort to move. All totally valid reasons. I even get feeling like nothing bad has happened to you personally so you don't want to care about it, though that is not a good reason. But . . . bad things are just going to keep happening. There is no scenario in which this don't end badly. Do people get that, or are they just blasé because they feel like they've put up with so much already?
I even made an icon! The keywords are 'Change is bad'. Tanya <3
Genuine lol.
Well I've got the Librarian one you pointed me towards, and it's not terrible. I'll let you know when I've got a list together. ;)
You know where to find me!
Right, I shall bookmark that, since LJ did something REALLY AWKWARD when I tried to check a banner.
Maybe still just server weirdness?
(I thought I had avoided that by keeping the old style BUT APPARENTLY NOT. I hope it's just a glitch.)
Are they letting people keep that in perpetuity, or were there plans to phase it out? I'll admit I didn't pay much attention since I didn't have a paid account and I actually liked the new site skin (I even changed my flist over to it as soon as they gave you the option.)