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ninetydegrees (90d)☕ ([personal profile] ninetydegrees) wrote in [site community profile] dreamscapes2017-03-07 08:15 pm
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Requesting feedback and testing, please :)

Hi all! I'm working on a new style and I'm at a point where I want to show it to people and get some feedback. :) It has not been thoroughly tested --far less than usual actually-- so let me know if you spot some issues.

What is this? Medallion/Evergreens by ninetydegrees

Image sources:
* Medallion: painting by William Trost Richards - the Met museum - public domain (http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11910)
*Background: webtreats ETC - free for use in both personal and commercial projects, including web templates (http://webtreats.mysitemyway.com/terms-of-use/)
*Icons: The Noun Project - CC-BY-SA or public domain
*Dreamwidth logo - Dreamwidth wiki - I hope it can be used if the theme is in dw-nonfree.

Links:
*Style: https://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=822568&fmt=html
*Theme: https://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=823031&fmt=html
*Preview: http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/preview_redirect?themeid=823031

Improvements (11.03.2017):
*Print website in header menu if filled out
*Clarify some options
*Minor tweaks to Tags page
*Better Icons page

Improvements (12.03.2017):
*Tweak some names for clarity
*Add more colors for menu (hopefully they work)
*Alphabetize properties in themes

Improvements (13.03.2017):
*Clarify some options
*Simpler code for Menu

Improvements (16.03.2017):
*Move admin icon & sticky icons before datetime
*Bigger subject icons
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sporky_rat: It's a rat! With a spork! It's ME! (Default)

[personal profile] sporky_rat 2017-03-07 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
So all I did was a preview on it and ...

I LOVE IT AND IT IS GORGEOUS.

(Further information after finishing my fruit butter making?)
ninetydegrees: Art: heart (love)

[personal profile] ninetydegrees 2017-03-08 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I'm so glad you like it!

(Hope things went smoothly :)
sporky_rat: Jars of orange fruit, backlit (cooking)

[personal profile] sporky_rat 2017-03-08 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
The fruit butters went well. I poked at it a little bit more and I'm not seeing any buggy bits. (I am really really looking forward to this one.)
baggyeyes: Dr River Song, with text Deadly (Dr River Song)

[personal profile] baggyeyes 2017-03-08 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Hi,
I have just installed it. So far one thing has cropped up immediately, the images aren't loading. I'll use it and see what else, if any, pops up. Lovely layout.
Edited 2017-03-08 01:25 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ninetydegrees 2017-03-08 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks a lot for installing it. I'm super pumped you think it's lovely. The images are hosted on Dreamwidth and I can see them on your journal. The links are HTTPS ones. Do you think that could be the issue?
baggyeyes: Bugs Bunny and the Bull (Default)

[personal profile] baggyeyes 2017-03-08 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I figured out the problem. My connection is extremely slow, so the images loaded about half an hour later.
mark: A photo of Mark kneeling on top of the Taal Volcano in the Philippines. It was a long hike. (Default)

[staff profile] mark 2017-03-08 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Activated on my journal, will play around with it. It looks nice! :)
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[personal profile] ninetydegrees 2017-03-08 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome! Thank you! I'm super glad you think it's nice. :)
musyc: Silver flute resting diagonally across sheet music (Default)

[personal profile] musyc 2017-03-11 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, very pretty! I love round userpics. It's just a cool little touch.

I only have one tiny quibble, and it's probably a personal thing more than anything else. The tiny icon before a subject line, on skimming, I kept thinking that they were access-lock icons, which was weird to me because I don't lock anything. I would probably move them to the beginning of the line, before the date.

But other than that, looks nice!
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[personal profile] ninetydegrees 2017-03-11 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I'm super glad you like it, and the round icons in particular. I'm very fond of them too. :)

Good remark. I'll have to think about it as the NSFW and lock icons are displayed before the date so I think it could also be confusing for people who lock everything. Do you think that if the icon was less tiny, it would be less confusing? It's a 24px icon but maybe I should make it 32px?
musyc: Silver flute resting diagonally across sheet music (Default)

[personal profile] musyc 2017-03-14 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Hmmm. I took a second look at it, since I do have a couple of locked "note to self" entries hidden away. I see what you mean. That's not as confusing as it was at first to me. I think what threw me was that the "sticky entry" star appears just to the right of the little squirrel, so they blended together. :)
ninetydegrees: Art: face with a colored stripe over one eye (Default)

[personal profile] ninetydegrees 2017-03-14 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh I didn't think of sticky entries. You're right that this isn't ideal. I've floated the admin and sticky entry icons to the left so all metadata icons are at the beginning. What do you think?
musyc: Silver flute resting diagonally across sheet music (Default)

[personal profile] musyc 2017-03-14 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm, yeah, I like that a little better. It helps me 'read' the squirrel as a divider between site/system data and user-entered data, instead of as a system icon. That works!
ninetydegrees: Art: rainbow donkey piñata (piñata)

[personal profile] ninetydegrees 2017-03-16 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool! Thanks for working it out with me. :)
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