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New color scheme again. I may be changing the layout too, if I can find another layout that includes the links and doesn't plaster my icon all over the page.

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dewhitton posted a bit on these custom lj user icons for links to journals. Since there was a lack of raptors there I made one for hafoc. With only 17x17 pixels to work with that was a bit of a challenge. Not bad for a first attempt though.

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Well it looks like I'll be keeping this layout, boring as I'm finding it to be by this time. I tried several (as anyone checking my journal for the last couple hours probably noticed) but the few that I could tolerate (Generator, Classic, Clean and Simple, and Unearthed) each has some problem that just tweaked the heck out of me.

Generator doesn't allow free accounts to change the box width (and even if it did it seems to require a pixel width rather than a percentage). It also lacks a separate box border color (making it the same as the box header color) and forces an outline on the user icon. As it should be obvious, my latest icon was designed to blend into the box content, the outline makes that impossible.

Classic was okay I suppose but it ran the links list into the "Below are the 20 most recent journal entries..." line. It also didn't allow a different color for the entry text making for the heck of a lot of icy blue.

Clean and Simple forced a user icon outline on me. It also could have used a box outline color to make it pop from the page background more.

Unearthed is just insanely complicated. Which if I could actually look at the code and play with it wouldn't bother me but the assorted dialogs approach makes me twitch.It also suffers from the bug that makes for a irritating display foible in Firefox. If I ignore the scrollbar that shows up on the bottom of the page because of it I guess I could deal, but that sort of thing just tweaks me.

So for now, expect either A Sturdy Gesture or some mutant version of Unearthed here, if the latter I apologize for burnt retinas (some of the themes are garish to say the least) and other disturbing side effects while I'm bashing about.

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I reached the limit of what a free account could do with the Unearthed layout. I can either not have a user icon or I can have it appear on every single entry. Neither option appeals. If it were possible to swap the calendar for a user image with a free account I'd switch to Unearthed, even with the fat sidebar on the entries that remains even with the icons turned off. Though the lack of friends colors on the friends page and the inability to turn off the user icon on the recent entries page and leave them in the friends page would require me to retrain myself. I browse my friends page by color.

All moot though, back to A Sturdy Gesture.