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Α Λ Ε Ξ ([personal profile] terra) wrote in [community profile] vigils2018-05-23 05:48 pm
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Plurk Layout: “Galaxias”

Many years ago there were several stylesheets available for customizing plurk layouts. That all changed when plurk upgraded and broke everything. Galaxias is a layout that will work with plurk that is, instead of plurk that was.

The code

Instructions

First, to make this layout work as pictured, you need to install plurk jailbreak. This lets custom CSS apply to more things. It's optional, but recommended.

These are the plurk layout settings I used:

Customizations

Galaxias is designed as sort of a “blank slate” layout— it's very easy to change the background image and accent color.

#timeline_holder { background:url(https://valiantknife.org/plurk/galacta.png) #444; background-size: cover; }

The accent color used throughout this layout is #eee. If you'd like to change it, just find and replace.

Finally, the fonts used are Spectral and Cutive Mono, two great free typefaces. If you'd like to replace them, look for these font stacks: Spectral, Georgia, serif; & Cutive Mono, Courier New, monospace;. Be sure not to change anything in the section of the code labelled "Fonts" unless you know what you're doing.

Galaxias 2

To demonstrate what the layout looks like with the images and colors slightly switched, I made a variant layout, Galaxias 2. If you like this version better, you're welcome to take that code instead:

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[personal profile] hext 2018-12-29 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
hey alex! would you be able to advise me how to finish turning the rest of my dashboard a very light gray as i've attempted to do so far here using galaxias 2? i got the main body somehow but can't seem to hone in on the panels: https://www.plurk.com/aescapes

and here is the altered code i've currently got (includes altered image, rounded corners, removed italics, just a heads up):
https://paste.plurk.com/show/2693311/

eta: the color change request is not because i don't love your code, it's fabulous, my eyes/head just have a difficult time with a lot of white space on the screen so i'm hoping a light grey will be less triggering <3
Edited 2018-12-29 07:03 (UTC)
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[personal profile] hext 2018-12-29 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
i think that was from me setting the plurk dashboard theme, if you're viewing the page source code - i'll see if i can get them to line up

thank you so much!!

eta: ok, didn't work after pasting that code into the dashboard section. any idea what i should try next?
Edited 2018-12-29 07:29 (UTC)
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[personal profile] hext 2018-12-29 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
thanks, it def went transparent this time! \o/

i wish i could figure out a way to override the "set your plurk theme" so i could have more freedom in the color (shade of gray) i'm using but i've looked at all the plurk fix resources that i know of and none seem to address that particular mandate in the settings > layout box. that's where that #eee showed up and so i'm kind of stuck with it to make the bottom half/the entirety of the dashboard all one color. if you think of something, will you holler at me sometime? i'm at least good for now with less white, and the layout is so beautiful, thank you!
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[personal profile] plentyofwords 2019-02-12 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi!

I was wondering how to change the font style for the plurk usernames to something not italicized? I am using Galaxia one

Thanks! The layout is fabulous!
Edited 2019-02-12 16:44 (UTC)
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[personal profile] quadrille 2019-03-25 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not the layout-maker, but since I just did the same edit when taking this layout, it's this bit:

.name { font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none !important; font-style: italic; }

Just remove font-style:italic; and you're set!
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[personal profile] plentyofwords 2019-03-26 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much!
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[personal profile] crysta0917 2022-11-30 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
I'm using Galaxias 2 for my recently revived plurk acct. Thank you for these! :)