Can anyone recommend a good LJ layout?

[red_satin_doll]

ETA 11/18/12 :  I've decided to go with Blue Woodcut for now, although it doesn't use Ariel-style font (or have tags in a column.  I can deal.)  It's actually quite similar to the Weston series template gabrielleabelle used but is not completely identical, and rarely seen (at least in this corner of the Buffy-fandom sandbox I play around in.)  And: pretty.  Easy on the eyes counts for a lot. Thanks everyone for your suggestions. 

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Exactly what the title says: I chose this particular template because it had: black print on white ground (hey, I'm getting older, kids - readability?  It's an issue - and if it is for me, then....); color around the edges to catch the eye; fairly clean and simple graphic layout; and, the tags were visible.  (The template I originally chose was nice, but tags were not visible, so why even bother?)

But - now it's starting to irk me. It feels as though the text is squeezed in too narrowly, and thus my icon becomes more prominent right at the top of each post (or maybe I need to downsize my icons), which distracts my eyes visually when I put a photo at the top of the post.

So, if anyone can recommend another layout - and, oh yeah, it has to be one of the free ones. 

I'm not "fussy" - I prefer "particular", thanks muchly.

Comments

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Huh? I'll uncheck the filter spam box in my settings and see if that helps. (Although I can't imagine why it would do that, because that setting is still on.)

One thing I hate about LJ myself is how complicated it can be to format entries even in Rich Text. I had no such problem in Blogger; for instance if I have to edit that one fic I posted here (untitled), I have to add extra lines of space between all the paragraphs every single damn time. But not with metas. So again with the Huh?

[snowpuppies (from livejournal.com)]

That's a weird glitch. Did you write the story in the LJ entry box or did you write elsewhere and C&P?

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I wrote it on LJ directly: http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/3321.html

Do you recommend C&P instead? (I have been writing directly here because when I start drafts on my computer they tend to not ever get finished.) Or does that just create more headaches? I use Pages on my Apple computer, but I can convert to pdfs.

[snowpuppies (from livejournal.com)]

I almost always write fic in Word and then C&P. Of course, I do hand-code to a certain extent, so that might make things different.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I'll try that with my next fic, thanks.