electricjonny

Based on some feedback, I spaced out the journal a bit and darkened the text so as to not be so straining on the eye, and used a slightly different background image for the text with a bit more than just noise in it.  I also made the menu images slide instead of spin which is a bit less annoying  And I've noticed there's really no :hover kind of thing on mobile browsers  Or maybe I'm not used to phones and don't know what the equivelent is there.  Anyway, I might try to see if I can make the menu click activated, but really I don't even think it gets used at all, so who knows.  I'll play with it more later.

So I decided to redo my journal skin.  I'm much more a fan of dark skins and only made the other one lighter to blend in with all the other things on the page.  But I figured change is good (at least some times) and I wanted to start something new here, what with my life being a bit different now.  I plan to post more on that later, but first a new skin.

The skin is basically the same as my old one, just with some color changes.  But now I've added a share menu.  I've never been the biggest fan of idiot-proof share buttons plastered all over the internet and I block them—even this journal's share buttons—with uBlock Origin.  But it seems that the world loves its easy one-click sharing of shit, so might as well join the party, eh?  Mostly though, it was just fun to make and it provides a bit of flash to an otherwise boring skin (journals are for text, not flash).

Anywho, I'm sure I'll change the colors around slightly, but I think I have it mostly where I like it.  I'd love to get the menu to transition a bit more with fading or sliding menu windows, but I haven't spent much time on that yet.  And I still have to clean up the CSS and remove a ton of old stuff from my last skin.  Oh, and while I was making this skin, I also made a Greasemonkey script to simply add a button to the right of the zoom button up above when you're writing a journal.  Clicking it selects this skin and fills in all the HTML required to make it show right and also adds in the share links, since they change with each journal (here's hoping I got the right journal ID and it links to the right page )  So all in all, I had a fun time doing it.

For any of you journal skin creators or design people, I'd love to hear some ideas on what you'd change or how to improve it