Can anyone recommend a good LJ layout?
Nov. 11th, 2012 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
red_satin_dollETA 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 ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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. *****************************************
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.
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Date: 2012-11-11 09:28 pm (UTC)I do like the templates used by stormwreath and 2maggie2, but the contrast between the colored background and text is not enough for me - and it's weird, but at first I had been trying to avoid a template I associated too much with another person's LJ (which is ridiculous, right? there's no way for every one of us to have our own template.)
That said, I like the look of gabrielleabelle's LJ quite a lot - it was probably the first one I happened upon this year, when discovering Buffy fandom - but I suspect it's only available to paid accounts?