Suzaku Kururugi (black_as_knight) wrote in marina_ooc, @ 2009-07-18 01:16:00 |
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Entry tags: | cool stuff, design and coding |
Making Your IJ Site Scheme Less Ugly
First, go here; Sherlock has it all very neatly laid out, IMHO. The steps we're most interested in at the moment are 6 and 8.
1. Replacing IJ's default icons
This is accomplished via step 8 on Sherlock's journal. If you've got Firefox, download Stylish, an add-on for it that makes editing your user stylesheet much easier. (Do a Google search for "firefox add-on stylish"; it should be the first match.) Otherwise, you'll have to locate your user stylesheet and paste it in there manually, preferably at the very end, so that it'll be easy for you to find if anything goes wrong. (You can also load the Greasemonkey version of her script by being sneaky in Opera.)
If you feel ambitious, you can make your own icons to replace hers -- or do a Google search for tiny LJ replacement icons, then do a find-and-replace with the links.
ETA: This fix very deliberately only changes the icons on pages using IJ's site scheme -- it does not change the icons you'll see if you look at a page of your own journal. This is so that you'll be able to see the custom icons that you or other users may have made to complement specific journal layouts.
If you don't care about layout-matching icons, you can replace all of the text in your "InsaneJournal Simple Icons/Images Skin" with the following:
#IJ-sitepage-tweak #tweak-pic {
background: none !important;
}/* removes tweak picture */
#IJ-sitepage-tweak #tweak-says {
display: none !important;
}/* removes quote (tweak says)*/