Rp Tutorials

This is a quick basic tutorial that I put together for a friend who just recently joined IJ. It just covers a few things like editing font size, color, family, letter spacing, line height, linking, etc. Just some really basic things and nothing all that fancy.

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I really like the layout of geek's journal, and I'd like to contact the person to ask their permission to use the base layout and tweak the colors. However, the problem I run into is the most recent journal entry is dated in May, 2009 and there doesn't seem to be any other way to get in contact with the person in question. Should I just go ahead and comment on the recent entry, making sure that said comment has some OOC indication, and ask them about the layout on the chance it gets to the person's current email? Or should I go ahead and use the layout, but credit the person in my userinfo for the base layout?

If I go forward in using the layout, the other problem I run into is, I haven't the fainest idea how to manipulate the links (i.e. the profile, friends, etc.) to display the way they do. Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction toward a tutorial that could produce similar results?

UPDATE: Since the raw code didn't quite pan out like I thought it would, I went searching through ~rp_tutorial's resource directory for CSS/HTML help and came across the original source for the layout. If you're interested, you can find the code for it here.