Three Weeks: layouts
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branchandrootI like this one.
Day 8: What is your philosophy on journal layouts?
I have a couple different ones for different purposes.
1) You can have as eye burning a layout as you like, just as long as I am not required to read in it! I will even make layouts in colors I would never, ever use myself, because it's only fair really, but I don't want it inflicted on my retina when I go to read your stuff. This is a big reason I less-than-three Dreamwidth forever. That setting that lets me view all cuts and links in my own style? Brilliant.
2) The geometry of layouts I design will always be fairly simple and have a fair bit of elbow room between components. This is just me, that's what triggers my "yes, that looks good" response, so that's what I create.
3) What I, personally, like includes: black on white reading space! I am really not good with even lightly tinted reading backgrounds or text. This is a text journal, not a photo journal, I want to be able to read walls o' text easily. This does not, however, mean that the frames and backgrounds and sidebars can't be colored, because I actually prefer that; it sets off the text space nicely and makes the whole thing pretty.
If you infer by all this design-thought that I am currently in the middle of a bout of design-madness, you would be right. It's /way/ more fun than grading the stack of papers that's due to land on my desk tonight.
Day 8: What is your philosophy on journal layouts?
I have a couple different ones for different purposes.
1) You can have as eye burning a layout as you like, just as long as I am not required to read in it! I will even make layouts in colors I would never, ever use myself, because it's only fair really, but I don't want it inflicted on my retina when I go to read your stuff. This is a big reason I less-than-three Dreamwidth forever. That setting that lets me view all cuts and links in my own style? Brilliant.
2) The geometry of layouts I design will always be fairly simple and have a fair bit of elbow room between components. This is just me, that's what triggers my "yes, that looks good" response, so that's what I create.
3) What I, personally, like includes: black on white reading space! I am really not good with even lightly tinted reading backgrounds or text. This is a text journal, not a photo journal, I want to be able to read walls o' text easily. This does not, however, mean that the frames and backgrounds and sidebars can't be colored, because I actually prefer that; it sets off the text space nicely and makes the whole thing pretty.
If you infer by all this design-thought that I am currently in the middle of a bout of design-madness, you would be right. It's /way/ more fun than grading the stack of papers that's due to land on my desk tonight.
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Date: 2011-05-02 06:15 pm (UTC)Is it wrong and bad of me that there's a part of my soul that sometimes wants to write the grad school AU for KHR, mostly so I can make Gokudera a tormented graduate student of some stripe? He's in physics and Mukuro's in philosophy and I think Hibari's in law, and Ryouhei and Yamamoto are both over in something Human Movement/Sport/Leisure Studies or something, and Chrome is in Psychology, and ... yeah, I'm probably overthinking this, given that I basically just want to write the one where Gokudera rants about the evils of grading and undergraduates.
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Date: 2011-05-02 06:23 pm (UTC)Okay, so what's Tsuna in? English? Tell me Tsuna is in English.
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Date: 2011-05-02 06:25 pm (UTC)And Lambo is their pet undergrad.
Tsuna and Gokudera commiserate a lot and Mukuro applies the stairs method to his grading and Hibari ignores them all because he doesn't have to worry about such nonsense and Ryouhei and Yamamoto are both kind of baffled by the whole thing.
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Date: 2011-05-02 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-02 06:28 pm (UTC)The arcobaleno are the faculty; Reborn is Tsuna's advisor and terrifies the everliving life out of him and Timoteo is, I dunno, a dean or something, and basically this would be deeply, deeply carthartic to write.
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Date: 2011-05-02 06:31 pm (UTC)Where are the Varia, I wonder?
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Date: 2011-05-02 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-02 06:36 pm (UTC)Except Lussuria; he's in Theater.
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Date: 2011-05-02 06:52 pm (UTC)*eyes the muses* Chrome is already musing on student evaluations and Dino and Bianchi are lobbying for office sex. I think I may be doomed.
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Date: 2011-05-03 02:38 am (UTC)Ahaha, you give us the nicest things. *hearts*
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Date: 2011-05-02 06:32 pm (UTC)someall cases.no subject
Date: 2011-05-06 01:53 am (UTC)-A happy user of one of your designs
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Date: 2011-05-06 02:06 am (UTC)