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IJ_siteschemes is where everyone involved in designing site schemes for IJ can exchange notes, documents and ideas. Membership is currently moderated, so please leave a comment for branchandroot if you'd like to join in.

September 2015
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Branch [userpic]
Call for help

Okay, folks, here's where I get bogged down in page-specific css and beg for help.

The header/menu/footer is going well and getting debugged thanks to Snakeling's help. But I'm finding that a lot of the site pages have their own little style sheets attached. So I need to look at every single site page to check it for styles, copy the styles and revise them where needed.

Can I get some help looking at pages and copying?

If a few more people could go through the Manage Account pages and Support Area pages, and look at the source code to see if there are any style sheets or in-page styles attached, and make a copy of any that appear, that would really, really help. The sheets default.css and tweak.css do not need to be copied, those are for the old header.

Heck, if you know of anyone who might take a handful of pages to look at, please mention it to them!

I'm going through the Portal and Customize pages, and the various log-in/log-out and posting pages, but this will go a ton faster if I can get a little help checking the less heavily styled areas.

Thanks guys! Comment to this entry about any pages you take to look at so no one doubles up.

Comments

I'll see what I can do; I hope you don't mind if I mostly lurk for the time being? While I'm not unfamiliar with CSS, I am unfamiliar with what all goes into site schemes, and I'd like a chance to observe and keep my mouth shut and learn a bit more until I feel a bit more confident.

No problem at all. Certainly the site page code takes a while to get used to. *wry*

I can do one or the other, but you'll have to wait a couple of days, because Christmas :D

I think I love you. *laughing* No problem on waiting a few; I'm still slogging through the Customize page(s).

I'm here, I'm here! I mean a day late and a dollar short, but I can help.

Alright let's see...

Comment Settings, Edit Profile, and Viewing Options all have:
http://www.insanejournal.com/stc/lj_base.css
http://www.insanejournal.com/stc/lj_settings.css

Journal Display has:
http://www.insanejournal.com/stc/customize.css

Edit Pictures has:
http://www.insanejournal.com/stc/lj_base.css
http://www.insanejournal.com/stc/editpics.css

And finally!

Edit Entry and File Manager both have in-page styles. Do you want me to copy & paste them or is that enough?

Wonderful, thank you so much!

Nah, I can look at the in-page styles when I copy the page for testing. Mostly I just need to know which pages I have to do any restyling on and which I can leave as is! You're a life-saver.

No problem at all. Let me know if you have more parts of the site you need me to do the same with.

The pages that have their own stylesheets are included in the source of the page and can't be pulled out. So we are going to have to modify those individually if need be.

*nods* Figured they might be; I'm keeping track of which pages have extra attached or in-page styles and what they are, so you can find them to edit out. There will also be two or three background color specifications that I will need you to do a find-and-replace on throughout all the site page code, because they show up everywhere. Things written in at the html tag level, like those, can't be overridden, so I need to convert them to classes instead.

I should have an update for everyone later today!

Also, I'm clicking around in the code on svn, just to see what it looks like. Am I correct in thinking that this will call for a new file in cgi-bin/bml/scheme?

yes it will. That is where the actual template itself lives.