Now that the style contest is done, I would be very interested in seeing some write-ups in lj_style about the new features that people have developed and displayed here, such as color-coded security or extensive use of palimg backgrounds.

I have code and explanation for my "sort comments chronologically" feature here, which I hope will interest some

According to my clock, it's now midnight PST, so we are no longer accepting submissions for the style contest. We're going to take a day or two in the office to pull together the submissions and discuss the best way to poll the userbase. Voting will be open soon ( Read more... )

Wide LinesThis style is built out of lines, not boxes: it uses the entire screen to display entries. The effect can be clean and efficient or sprawling and relaxed -- there are many options for customization available through the standard wizard interface, and even more open to users with a minimum of layer use. Focus is taken by the content of ( Read more... )

This is a CSS based layout. There are lots of options to fiddle around with in the wizard, which is both good and bad because it is kind of overwhelming. The components in the sidebar can be added, removed, and reordered as needed. One of the more interesting things about this layout is the sidebar. There is an option to remove the sidebar in the ( Read more... )

NegativesI create this style originally to use as a simple, black and white style that looked good without using images and loaded quickly on any connection. For this contest, I added colour and background customisation to it, and a great deal more. Negatives is an elegant, highly customisable, div-based style that can be given an individual look ( Read more... )

Nebula is now live
Nebula has been voted one of the top five styles in LiveJournal's second ever style contest, and is now available for use with your journal via the Customize Area. A big thank you to everyone who voted.

Now that Nebula is publically-available, I will no longer be accepting requests for help with this style, and comments to this ( Read more... )

Gradient StripThis style was inspired by the colorbar memes that have circulated on LiveJournal. I enjoy working with the palimg textures and was ready to move on to automated color palettes, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity to combine both ( Read more... )

Tranquility IITranquility II is a CSS based design with tons of customizations available. I have included a few themes as well as one 'Theme' which demonstrates the ability to override the CSS and create a new layout. Check out the 'Mobile' theme to see what I'm talking about. The style, also has a built in 'print' view through CSS ( Read more... )

DriftingA simple but classy CSS based design. I love CSS based designs because they tend to break much less often than table based designs ( Read more... )

Newsworthy
Here is a style I wrote this weekend because I wanted to create a style that really takes advantage of the fact that S2 is really a programming language. I also wanted to see if I could create something that took better advantage of the space available on the high-resolution displays I use most of the time. To those ends, I took ( Read more... )