LOL, CSS.

[eobanb]

So I changed my account mode from Free to "Sponsored+", the recently-introduced account option for one's Livejournal. It shows ads on one's Livejournal and friends page in exchange for providing some features usually reserved for Paid or Early Adopter accounts (e.g. more user pics, online storage space, etc.). Then 15 minutes later I killed the

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[eobanb]

Sure. Just have a look at my journal's CSS file (it works properly for both Free and Sponsored+ modes). Notice the body text colour (including links) matches the body background colour, and then also take notice of the end, which I tacked on extra and is for selectors not designed to be controlled by the Livejournal web interface:

#header{height:55px;margin-top:9px;background:#252c25 url(http://eoban.com/1.jpg)}
#header h1{color:#252c25;padding:3px}
#adframe{display:none}
div{z-index:0 !important}
.ind-entry h4{color:#d0ddd0 !important}
h4{color:#000 !important}The beginning just places the image at the top; the #header h1 sets the unavoidable title text to be the same colour as the background of the header image so that it's invisible, and then the rest deals with the ads. I collapse #adframe, set ALL div elements to have a z-index of 0 (this gets around not being able to directly manipulate the divs containing all of the ad content itself because of Livejournal's filtering

[eobanb]

Works in Firefox, Safari, IE, and Opera, too :)