Addicted!

By Lisa on February 6, 2003 10:06 PM | techie stuff | Permalink | Comments (11)

I'm having a great time making skins. I have s'more ideas but I have to find someone to make pretty pictures (or find pretty pictures somewhere).

Here's the latest:

As you can see, I managed to figure out the 3 column thing. Yay me! (It was really silly what I had wrong and just couldn't see, but that happens.)

Thanks go again to Robyn and Zalary!

I'm going to go back into the first pin up and work on the columns but not tonight. I also have to tweak the Books & Movies page because it has its own navigation.

11 Comments

kristine said:

Ohhh, I like this one a WHOLE lot. When I saw that pic at Robyn's place, I loved it -- she's got a big heart behind her! And I love that I can see more of your sidebar! You picked some great colors to go with it all.

If you need anybody to help make you pictures, or edit pictures for you to fit or whatever, just say the word

February 6, 2003 10:15 PM

Christine said:

I love this!!

February 6, 2003 10:34 PM

susan said:

Where did you learn to do the skins? I've seen some basic tutorials and I'm still lost as ever!

February 6, 2003 10:36 PM

Lisa said:

Susan: Statia wanted her blog skinned so the two of us spent a bunch of hours online together figuring it out.

Think of your front page as a sandwich:
layer 1 (bread): all the stuff at the top of the file down to [MTEntries] tag.
layer 2 (the "meat"): all the stuff between the [MTEntries] and [/MTEntries] tags (and the tags themselves)
layer 3 (bread): all the stuff after the [/MTEntries] tag to the end of the file.

Layers 1 & 3 are what gets skinned. Layer 2 never changes.

That's the basic idea.

February 7, 2003 5:58 AM

Melissa said:

Dayam girl! You go! This skin rocks! Flat out. I LOVE the colors. I think I just found a new permanent skin. Great job!!