help with switching to S2

[erilyn]

Ok, I'm a lazy idiot. After years and years of the same S1 layout to my lj, it's time to embrace S2 and start using various features that I like in other peoples' journals, but have never got around to using here.

I can find various styles/layouts I kind of like, but have no idea how to customise it to what I want (mostly - simple, uncluttered, fairly uncolourful, with useful things down the side), and I'm so intimidated and overwhelmed by what I'm reading.

Help? Is there an S2 expert who could hold my hand and walk me through this?

Comments

[turlough]

Well, it depends on how much in a hurry you are :-) If you can wait until after Christmas I can make you a layout exactly the way you want it but I don't have the time this week. What colour scheme do you want and do you want to stick with the default comment pages, like this one, or the fancy ones like I have?

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

After Christmas became two months later, whoops...are you still able to make me a layout? :D

I prefer the default comment page (I'm a big user of style=mine and format=light on other peoples layouts to be honest). I like black text on white background, though a border around the outside could be nice.

I like blues, aqua and royal and navy, but am happy to experiment :)

[turlough]

Of course I am! I'll see what I can come up with and get back to you in a few days. It shouldn't take to long, you don't wanting customised entry pages eliminates some of the most time consuming colour code fiddling :-) Do you want me to make you a header too and in that case do you have a picture in mind?

Btw, are you going to use multi-level tags (like I do), or just ordinary plain tags?