Heh. To practice CSS and learn more about S2 I set myself a challenge: make an LJ layout that looks like Facebook. I did this in just under a week’s time and 85% was written from scratch.
Name: FaceJournal
In use: At my journal
Code: Public
To use: You need a paid account. Go to Your Styles and scroll to the bottom. Under Create Style choose a name, any name, and click create. On the next page choose your language (whatever you pick won’t make a difference) and choose other under the Layout dropdown. In the LayerID box that pops up put 27035570. You’ve now created a style using this custom layout as it’s base layer, so go back to the Style page, find your new style in the list, and select Use.
Features:
Logged in top navigation bar has a search bar
Logged-out top navigation bar includes links to log in
Calendar view includes links to all years of the calendar
Includes security icon on entry linkbar
Comment on an entry by clicking “like”
Recognizes if an entry was posted today, in the past, or is future-dated
Perma-link by clicking on the date
Includes space for one vertical ad on the right. If no ads displayed entries will spread to nearly the full width.
Different background color for screened comments
Mimics the Facebook layout as much as possible while still including all of LJ’s features.
English only – there’s currently no internationalization and no options for choosing your own text.
All styling is done with CSS so it should be pretty simple to change colors if you want to.
Current Mood: accomplished