In an attempt to suppress the incessant need to spawn new layouts, as mentioned in my last post, I have decided to hell with it.. I’ll simply fall on to Phil’s advice and bring back a style-switcher and several older layouts along with it.
This idea was easier said than done, as I discovered the majority of my old website content, images etc are in folders called “old stuff”. Each zipped, and then added to another folder called “old stuff” as the years have gone on. Cue zip files 4-5 deep, filled with zips and more folders, with no labelling and no way of telling what everything is without manually going through each thing. Arse.
Nonetheless, patience prevailed. The layouts I’ve had chance to add so far are listed on the ol’ Style Override page and I’m willing to take suggestions as to other layouts you guys would like to see re-added. However, bear in mind that I’m working with the structure created specifically for the default layout, so anything too “exotic” will need to be hacked or boshed to make it work. Likewise, older layouts may need updated imagery or navigation placement to fit into what my site is today.
I think this is the longest post ever, just to tell you “I added new styles”. :S
11 Feb at 8:43 pm
pleeeeeaaaase grey and pastel rainbow. i know i’m like the only person who liked it, but PLEEEEAAAAASE. Hahaha.
11 Feb at 8:48 pm
On the ‘hues of blue’ your navigation (specifically the dotted underline) extends out of the sidebar. I’m so glad this one is back though. :)
11 Feb at 8:50 pm
Yay mint choc chip! *clicks*
11 Feb at 8:50 pm
Whooooo, this is fun. Ha ha. I like all of them, though, so now I don’t know which one to pick.
11 Feb at 8:51 pm
Ahhhh, cheers for that Amber. I made a change to the “base styles” spreadsheet and it cocked things up further down, oops. ;)
11 Feb at 8:59 pm
when i first found jemjabella a while back, you had this layout – http://tinyurl.com/2s49mq , please bring that back, that rocked ;]
11 Feb at 9:03 pm
I second Danny’s suggestion. I loved that layout!
11 Feb at 9:05 pm
*has chosen Mint Choc Chip* I love that one. My favorite layout of yours was a 3 column one… or well it had 3 columns on the main page… I think it was version11. It had some circles shape thingies as background.. and it was red and gray… I think… *has a sudden large memory gap*
11 Feb at 9:17 pm
I think I will be sticking with the default layout for now. Although, I do like the Mint Choc Chip layout very much, I like the default better. Can’t wait to see the other themes you decide to put up.
11 Feb at 9:27 pm
Mint choc chips :D This was very nice idea.
11 Feb at 9:33 pm
Yay! Rainbow! Old school! Too many exclamation marks! V xx
11 Feb at 9:39 pm
Oh yay, you brought back Rainbow!
11 Feb at 9:57 pm
I really like Hues of Blue.
11 Feb at 10:08 pm
its all about the mint choc chip :D I like having lots of different layouts – I get bored easily – I like listing the bestt of the old ones on one page or another :D
11 Feb at 10:20 pm
Ha! I knew you’d give into peer pressure in the end! On a serious note, cheers for the Style Sheet Switeroonie Thingamibob. Now I can read you stuff in style (sheet). :-)
11 Feb at 10:21 pm
I like this one the best out of all of the ones listed, I think :P The rainbow one’s very vibrant, isn’t it? :D
11 Feb at 10:29 pm
i’m a big fan of the hues of blue as well ~_~ but they’re all great. i’ve really enjoyed this current one tho. so i think i’ll stick with it for now XD
11 Feb at 10:34 pm
Good choice, excellent advice too, if I do say so myself. Mint Choc Chip it is for me too.
11 Feb at 10:35 pm
I think Vera and I are think of the same one… Which is nice, because now I don’t have to describe it. But I don’t know, because I remember it being from a LONG time ago. Hm.
11 Feb at 10:42 pm
ahhh Good ole hues of blue. *hugs his browser cookie*
11 Feb at 10:50 pm
*using Hues of Blue* You should add that last gray and green theme :3
11 Feb at 10:52 pm
Now you have me going crazy. I like them all except for the rainbow, but it isn’t the design that I don’t like it is the colors. But that is my problem, not yours, Jem. Love the choice.
11 Feb at 11:13 pm
Nice idea. Will you be adding new layouts to the style switcher as well? I’d like to let you know that there are some issues in “Mint Choc Chip” and “Rainbow”. The sidebar and content in MCC start just below the flower pattern, covering the website name and stuff. In Rainbow, the main content is fine but the sidebar starts about 25 pixels too high. I’m using Internet Explorer 7.
11 Feb at 11:21 pm
Oh, nifty. I did like the layout you had (the default one), but choco mint or whatever its name is just screamed of “Hey! I KNOW you MISSED me! CLICK ME! CLICK ME!”
11 Feb at 11:51 pm
Nice. :D Hues of blue, when’s the last time I’ve seen youuu? ::click::
12 Feb at 12:31 am
I loved the cloudy skys Pixel version :)
12 Feb at 12:38 am
Yay Mint Choc Chip FTW. This was (and is) my favourite layout of yours to date.
12 Feb at 2:19 am
Betcha can’t guess whicn theme I chose. ;) Although it (Rainbow) is kind of wonky in IE 7. One day I should really install Firefox on my latop.:P
12 Feb at 3:49 am
This is great! Now I get to use one of my favourite layouts of yours: Mint Chocolate Chip (or whatever you’ve called it).
12 Feb at 6:18 am
RAINBOW!! My life has just improved a little bit :D
12 Feb at 7:01 am
Nice idea :). Although, you’ve had so many layouts I can’t remember any specific ones :D. I chose the “Mint Choc Chip” :).
12 Feb at 9:23 am
@Shaun: thanks for that. Will take a look at them at some point today :)
12 Feb at 10:22 am
I vote for the lime green /gray you had a couple of months ago. That one was nice :) Using mint choc :)
12 Feb at 10:33 am
I absolutley adore your Mint Choc Chip layout!
12 Feb at 12:22 pm
I love the Mint Chocolate Chip one :D However, the rainbow one scares me..
12 Feb at 12:31 pm
Using ‘Hues of Blue’ for it’s unstated use of hot pink ;)
12 Feb at 12:52 pm
I love the rainbow one! As well as Mint Choc Chip…
12 Feb at 3:11 pm
I like the default version XD The mint chocolate one is really cute too!
12 Feb at 6:13 pm
Wow, I love the rainbow skin the colors are really… refreshing! Just so you know you’re having issues with the comments again though (I’m using IE 7).
12 Feb at 6:17 pm
Aaaahh shit. Thanks for the heads up Matt. I don’t have IE7 on me so I’m having to make it up as I’m going along here.. :(
12 Feb at 6:45 pm
No problem… the comments seem to be working fine again now but now your sidebar/content is overlapping your navigation :S
12 Feb at 6:46 pm
oh FUCK! I fucking fixed that earlier, and have only gone and bloody overwritten it with the updates to the comments. A pox on IE, a pox on it I tell ya!
12 Feb at 7:25 pm
Yeah for real IE is the effing devil. I hate getting certain elements to look perfect in Firefox and then having them jump all over the screen in *ANY* version of IE. Yay for “hues of blue”. :D
12 Feb at 10:49 pm
The one I really want you to add back is an older one from ’06 I believe. It was a dark scheme, and it had rainbow circles on the sidebar (left hand side.) If you know which one I’m talking about, then damnit, I want it added so I can use it! /demands
13 Feb at 3:36 am
I think the first layout I saw for Jemjabella was Hues of Blue. But I feel like sticking with the default one; I can’t explain why :P
13 Feb at 8:11 pm
Is this gray / blue / red one the one I loved so much and wanted you to bring back? Not sure if it was this one, or this is a new ‘un. Either way, me loves it! I’dv suggest you changed the visited links from black to something easier to spot…after I’d changed the style, the links I’d visited previously were almost hidden in the text.
15 Feb at 7:48 pm
OH MY GOD the pastel theme! So many memories
15 Feb at 7:50 pm
Ew my comment got cut off :( I was just asking, do you still have the green theme with the rainbow colored navigation links, the one inspired by that book thing, the beginners guide to the galaxy (or some such.. thing. My memory fails me!) The nav was so fun to play with :D
15 Feb at 7:53 pm
@Matt: That’s Rainbow on the list, but I couldn’t implement the navigation because the structure of my site is so different now :(
15 Feb at 7:55 pm
*DIES* … *STILL DEAD* I knew I’d seen the color scheme before, I thought maybe you’d revamped it a little but I was hoping… *sniff*