watervole | (no subject)

I'm still trying to find the perfect journal layout.

I've a preference for Bloggish and Expressive because of the tag lists. Bloggish Powell St is nice and straightforward and uncluttered. In fact, the only thing I don't like about it is that there is no clear visual break between difference people's comments.

A lot of the Expressive options are far too fussy. The default isn't too bad, though I'm not madly keen on the font. Again, there's no clear breaks between comments. However, I quite like the three column layout of Expressive.

Expressive - Book - has a better font, but the tag cloud looks a bit odd and hard to read.

Expressive - Autumn theme cherry - much easier to read and good handling of tags, but I don't like the header.

Expressive Butterflies grey - underlining the orange tags is not a good idea.

Expressive - CAlifornia Poppy - tag cloud has font problems

Expressive - Carson - not too bad. Tag cloud is mostly readable and comments by the owner of a journal are boxed when you read the comments.

Expressive - Cityscape London - messy tag cloud with some font sizes.

Aargh! This is killing my wrists. What I want is some version of Expressive that has a readable tag cloud and is reasonably plain in general look. I can't tell what they look like well enough from the theme preview page, so I have to keep viewing my journal through them on another tab and it's not good for me.

I'm going to stick with Bloggish Powell St for today.

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Why don't you just change the default font to one you prefer?

Because I don't know how to.

It's in the FAQ.

I think one can still "disable customized comments" -- which means that when people are viewing the entry itself, and adding comments, it uses the default livejournal style, which means that different people's comments are easily distinguished.

Ah yes. That does the trick. Thanks. Much easier to read. (though it's a very wide screen which is a little annoying)

Nice, apropriate icon!

8-)

I went for Bloggish Folio, which has a lot of features that I like, but is a pig to customise. I still haven't managed to change the minimum width of the main text box.

I find that one very hard to read. The white on black isn't too bad, but the links in grey are almost impossible to read on my screen.

I tend to prefer white on black (less glare), at least for short text. (I read stories in format=light.) The grey links were a custom colour; they show bright on my laptop, but are a bit dingy on my desktop. I might change the colour, but I can never come up with one I like.