After struggling with cascading style sheets for way too long, I think I finally have one up to a reasonable enough standard to try out in the journal. I've only tested this under Windows, but it looks pretty good under Firefox. Opera seems to screw up the digits in my adapted Comic Sans font for some reason, and my copy of Internet Explorer has a few seams with the tables, but they're not too bad. I'll see how this looks under Debian tomorrow; unfornuately I can't test under Mac OS.

It was a pain to try and see if this works under both the light and dark GDNet skins. I probably should have just started off with the existing theme as a template rather than starting from scratch, as eventually I had to copy and paste bits in. And I must have been insane to try for a mix of a dark back border with a light message body. That required a whole bunch of hackery to get right.

It's not quite finished; there's a few little flaws I'll fix up, and I need to redo some of the images. Plus I want a header table for progress, a footer and a couple of pictures in there too. But it's looking pretty slick so far.

I'll finish off with a few tests:

void CodeTest(double magicNumber){   doSomething(magicNumber);}

This should be as normal; I haven't changed the code tags

Quote:After struggling with cascading style sheets for way too long, I think I finally have one up to a reasonable enough standard to try out in the journal. I've only tested this under Windows, but it looks pretty good under Firefox. Opera seems to screw up the digits for some reason, and my copy of Internet Explorer has a few seams, but they're not too bad.

Quote:It was a pain to try and see if this works under both the light and dark GDNet skins. I probably should have just started off with the existing theme as a template rather than starting from scratch, as eventually I had to copy and paste bits in. And I must have been insane to try for a mix of a dark back border with a light message body. That required a whole bunch of hackery to get right.

Quote:It's not quite finished; there's a few little flaws I'll fix up, and I need to redo some of the images. Plus I want a header table for progress, a footer and a couple of pictures in there too. But it's looking pretty slick so far.

Quote:I'll finish off with a few tests:

These should be comicky. I might change the quotes in a while if it gets too annoying [grin].

Bwahaahaahahaha!!!

Okay, the background seems to work now. I'll patch the other problems when they surface.

I've also reinstated the images in the comments; that was a pretty stupid case of leaving some references with relative path names in there. I often view the journals with images turned off so I didn't spot that one. The font size in the footer is still a little too large in the comments though; I'll put that on the list of things to fix.