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yukiroo In reply to ??? [2015-10-07 19:48:58 +0000 UTC]

HEY thanks for answering! ACTUALLY

I did put all the options you gave me...what can It be?!

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Darqx In reply to yukiroo [2015-10-08 04:02:58 +0000 UTC]

Well if you did do all that then theoretically there shouldn't be a problem lol.
If you show me a journal where you tried to implement a scroll box i can have a look to see what's not working

The other thing to mention is that if you are using Chrome with some extensions installed for some reason it doesn't like to copy paste from the creator properly so it might be that.

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yukiroo In reply to Darqx [2015-10-10 01:39:53 +0000 UTC]

I tried it on opera and just doesn't work :c I dunno what to do!
I'm sending a note to you with the code, maybe it helps!

Thanks a lot, tho! I'm sorry to take your time aaa ;o;

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Darqx In reply to yukiroo [2015-10-10 04:08:24 +0000 UTC]

When i tested your code in FF it worked fine Though as it turned out i forgot to capitalise the B in the usage code i messaged you earlier |D If you want a scroll box in your journal you need to type this in your journal body:

<div class="infoBox">
YOUR INFO/SCROLL BOX CONTENT HERE
>

(You should actually type it in and not copy paste that as i had to fudge it a bit to get the code to show in this comment lol)

Scroll boxes are by default 100px in height (unless you set something different) and if they do not have a lot of info in them then the scroll bar wont show. It will appear the longer the scroll box content is though.

The other thing i did notice was you might like to set your .gr-top background to be repeat instead of repeat-x.

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yukiroo In reply to Darqx [2015-10-10 17:06:52 +0000 UTC]

REALLY?! Why is it happening just to meeee ;o; ? jkjk

The thing is, I still can't see the changes even using opera browser. Do you thing is some kinda program that's doing it?!

LIKE:  FEATURE TIME!! (COMMENT TO BE FEATURED!)AAAAAA AS this lovely human LenaZon tagged me
on her journal, here I go!
ALSO, I'm setting up a new kiriban at 2,000 pageviews! Get it and I'll draw one character for you :3
Please read!

•The first 10 people that comment on this journal will be featured below and I'll choose three deviations I like most from their gallery! 
•If you comment, you must to do the same in your journal, putting the tagger (me) and three pieces of my art on the first place. 
• The idea of this is not to get a free feature, it is to spread art around for everyone!
READY, GO!!
1. :iconlenazoni: 
First of all, thanks a lot for the feature, that was so nice ;o;
Well I must say you're SO GOOD with pixel Art, OMGl!! LOOK AT THESE SHADINGS ALSO!
MAKES ME WANNA HUG THEM ALL I look foward to see more from y
Still, no scrollboxes! This is weird, I don't know if anybody had the same problem, I trust your CSS creator so much!

I'm so sorry again, to bother you! 

AA when you speak of the Journal's body, you're saying that space when you write your actual journal, right? wrong?! D:

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Darqx In reply to yukiroo [2015-10-10 17:33:25 +0000 UTC]

Now the image for your journal header has disappeared XD;

Yes, the journal body is where you write your actual journal The problem you're having is because you are referring to "infobox", which is why it's not showing - you have typed the name wrong (it needs to be exactly right or it won't work). Change the word "infobox" to "infoBox" (capitilise that B).

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yukiroo In reply to Darqx [2015-10-10 17:51:22 +0000 UTC]

OMG

KNOW I GET IT

AND IT WORKED!! YAY! Thanks a lot, really!!

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Darqx In reply to yukiroo [2015-10-11 05:17:48 +0000 UTC]

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yukiroo In reply to Darqx [2015-10-11 05:44:27 +0000 UTC]

haha!!

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Veiaa In reply to ??? [2015-09-29 22:56:21 +0000 UTC]

This is amazing, thank you so much ;v ;

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Darqx In reply to Veiaa [2015-09-30 08:31:26 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome! Hope it came in handy!

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AspieArt In reply to ??? [2015-09-27 09:29:20 +0000 UTC]

thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111

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Darqx In reply to AspieArt [2015-09-27 16:55:10 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

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rose-lock In reply to ??? [2015-09-26 20:19:36 +0000 UTC]

i'm trying to fix the header size on "Footlose" to actually fit my journal D: any way how to fix that?

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Darqx In reply to rose-lock [2015-09-27 03:34:24 +0000 UTC]

If you're trying to give it a height; dont unless absolutely necessary, like if you have a large picture as the header bg image you want more of it to be seen
Without a height put in it will automatically size itself to accommodate all of the header and timestamp text

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rose-lock In reply to Darqx [2015-09-27 03:36:03 +0000 UTC]

alright! thank you!

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Yumarcs In reply to ??? [2015-09-19 11:10:41 +0000 UTC]

Question,what size is recommended for the picture for the Middle Part of the journal?

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Darqx In reply to Yumarcs [2015-09-19 11:28:14 +0000 UTC]

If you mean for the circle of Picture Ribbon something 250 x 250px works best.

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Stalfrost In reply to ??? [2015-09-12 00:33:47 +0000 UTC]

Hey, this is really great and has saved me a a lot of grief over getting my head around codes, but I was wondering if you could help me with a CSS problem I have. I run quite a big group and do features every week, and I was wondering if you know of any CSS codes that can enhance the thumbnails in the feature. As is hovering over them creates a border or an overlay saying the title and artist who made the piece. Thanks in advance, and hope my question made some sense.

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Darqx In reply to Stalfrost [2015-09-12 07:36:34 +0000 UTC]

Glad it helped

There are ways to style thumbnails and embedded images; if you are looking for something simple such as a border on hover or a colour change (such as what i do with my journal thumbs here ) or something along those lines then that is easy enough.

Having an overlay with title and artist is harder, as far as i'm aware. You can get something like this (hover on the bottom images) with a combo of spans and classes, but they don't apply very well to DA's thumbs - they're better used with img srcs and links and it would be very time consuming if you were using that method for an art feature!

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Stalfrost In reply to Darqx [2015-09-12 10:03:47 +0000 UTC]

I see, thanks for your reply

Well lets just scrap the confusing and time consuming overlay idea.
The isolating lineart journal was exactly what I was looking for, if it's not
too much to ask for how would I go about putting that code into the journal?
Thanks so much again.

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Darqx In reply to Stalfrost [2015-09-12 12:10:22 +0000 UTC]

You need to style .shadow-holder which is DA's generic class for thumbnails (and a.embedded-deviation in case you are use the media pane to drop things in). There's a bunch of other classes associated with them but those are the main ones and the easiest one to change. Here's a chunk of example code you can use in you SKIN CSS to start off with:

.shadow-holder, a.embedded-deviation {
background-color: lightgrey;
border: 1px solid black;
margin: 10px;
padding: 5px;
}

What the above code does is target both thumbnails and embedded deviations at once, then:
1) gives them a background colour - in this example case grey
2) gives them a simple black border
3) makes spacing between adjacent thumbnails so they dont butt up right next to each other and
4) gives them some inside padding so that you can see some of the bg colour around the image

If you want to change something on hover, then you use this code after

.shadow-holder:hover, a.embedded-deviation:hover {
*INSERT YOUR BORDER OR BACKGROUND-COLOR CHANGE HERE*
}

Hope that helps and you're welcome

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Stalfrost In reply to Darqx [2015-09-12 14:28:17 +0000 UTC]

Thank you thank you thank you
You're the best, this is perfect and is amazing

Wasn't sure how to do the hover code at first but then I realised I just had to copy the same 
background/border code you showed me earlier on so everything is working.
I'll be sure to thank you in the feature journal when I make it and show some people to your page,
It's the least I could do for you helping me. And I've gotta admit you've kinda interested me into
learning some CSS coding, since it doesn't seem as complicated as it looks, so thanks for that.
Thank you so much again!

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Darqx In reply to Stalfrost [2015-09-12 16:05:41 +0000 UTC]

Ayyy thank you! ^^ Hope your feature journal comes out well.

I'm glad you've gotten a bit interested! HTML/CSS is one of the easier programming languages and imo it's pretty helpful to know even just a little bit There are quite a number of tutorials out there as well as CSS related groups on deviantart!

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drachenmagier In reply to ??? [2015-08-05 10:14:37 +0000 UTC]

I'm sorry to bother you with a question about CSS here. I was wondering: Is there a way to set the width of the text on a journal? Most text gets hard to read if the line is spread over the whole screen (and in the case of my new computer, that's a big screen). So, fixing the width at 15 cm or something like that (er... that would be... 500 points? I have no idea. ^^' ) would help with the reading. Is there any way to do that besides adding custom boxes to the journal itself?

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Darqx In reply to drachenmagier [2015-08-05 11:53:49 +0000 UTC]

Ayy no probs i don't mind helping out with CSS questions! (it's also good practice for me haha)

Yes you can set a width for your journal text - you do so by editing the .text selector. If you have a gruze journal you might put something like this into the Skin CSS editing section:

.text {
max-width: 600px;
}

Widths of about 600 - 700px seem to be ideal, or if you want something a bit more fluid width for larger screens you might like to set a percentage instead.
For example my current journal skin (the space one) has a journal text width of about 600px whilst for my tutorial journal i wrote the text width as 60%.

Hope that helps!

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drachenmagier In reply to Darqx [2015-08-06 09:23:53 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much. ^^ I barely get past the basic understanding of CSS and dA journaly are really not that easy to get right if you don't really want to learn that all. d: So, thanks for replying and answering my (most likely rather trivial) questions. And I will often not understand why a command does more than what it should. Like right now...

600px seems to be a perfect width for reading. That makes it a lot easier. Thanks again! Though out of some reason it seems that adding this command cuts the width of the background image too. O_o (the bg image is in two parts in my journal, to have a fixed header and then have parts of the drawing behind the text. I found no other way to prevent the header of the journal from overlapping with the drawing).



60% seems like a better option, simply because it's more flexible, but the problems stays the same: I got a gray box on the right side that does not want to go away. O_o

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Darqx In reply to drachenmagier [2015-08-06 10:07:47 +0000 UTC]

Haha it's quite fun to learn though, if you can find good tutorials! But yeah it makes it a bit harder if you're not so coding inclined i guess XD

Oh it shoves it to the left because that's a default setting - it doesn't know it has to center the .text selector. It's a simple fix by adding margin:auto; underneath the max-width. Basically what that does is tell the container "yo you should have the same spacing on either side of you."

The extra problem you are going to have is due to how you cut your picture - the image will not line up with your header anymore because it will be centered. There is a better way to achieve your header though and it only requires one full header image and an extra line of code. Here are the bits you will need to edit:

.journaltop
- change your background-image so that it's an uncut version of your image

.text
- add a line of code like margin-top: -50px;
- this will bump your text up into the header a little bit and thus have that little bit of header overlay you want

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drachenmagier In reply to Darqx [2015-08-06 10:55:51 +0000 UTC]

It's fascinating, but as I found out with html, almost impossible for me to learn when I can't ask anybody questions. Especially in case of "why does it do THAT NOW?" Though it is a typical computer thing: You can never blame the computer for mistakes, because you wrote them. So, I always knew I made a mistake, but never knew where to look for said mistake.

Putting the two separate images together is a lot easier than taking them apart anyway. That was one hell to get right initially. You were right with the shifted center of the image too, so thanks for telling me right away what the problem was.

With your input it now looks like this here:
Devious Journal Draft

Thank you very much again. ^^

I had to use this code to prevent the journal from swallowing up the header image:
background-image: url(headerimage);
background-position: top left;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: 375px;

Without that code, my header is just as big as the title, completely swallowing the header image up and showing only the top 1cm of it.

So, I don't think the magin-top: -Npx will work. At least not in combination with the code that forces the journal to have a 375px high header.

The header overlay was not really important anyway, though. It was fun to fiddle with it for a bit, but by now, I think a normal layer cake journal code would make maintenance easier. Plus, there was always the problem that some browsers separated the two images with a px of white or gray. Which was painfully visible and nearly impossible to get right, due to the coding of the different browsers. If it was invisible on one, the others showed the images overlap badly, if it was not overlapping, it was visible again. :'D A problem I will not encounter anymore now.

Talking with you here does show me that I most likely have a lot of rather useless junk in the CSS without knowing though. I will have to learn more about it, just to make it look a bit prettier and keep programmers from screaming when they see it.

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Darqx In reply to drachenmagier [2015-08-06 11:45:57 +0000 UTC]

The margin-top code in your .text will work, though you might have to amend it to something higher such as -100px to move it up more You can think of your header, journal content and footer as being on three separate sheets of paper, each lined up underneath each other like:

--- header
--- content
--- footer

When you add the negative margin-top (eg -100px) to the content, what it's basically doing is going "hey content paper, you gotta slide up and overlay the header paper by 100 pixels" (a positive margin-top would push the content down away from the header). So it doesn't really affect the actual height of the header that you set beforehand

I wouldn't be surprised haha! That's how a lot of my code was before too, so every time i made a new one i'd think about how i could amend or extend it Of course, you could always find a coder and ask them to do it for you, there's a lot of journal css commissionable folks around

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drachenmagier In reply to Darqx [2015-08-06 20:16:53 +0000 UTC]

Hm, then I will need to figure out where in the code I have to place it to get the right result and simply had not placed it in the right sector. In the worst case a simple matter of copy-pasting it till it works. My mistake, sorry about that! (and a pretty good example why learning such stuff alone is so darn hard ).

A surprising big amount of my friends work in the IT-sector, but sadly non of them works with CSS. I could most likely ask the one who made my HP... but I think I will wait with that till I need a major update again. That's always a tad expensive. d: Since you mention it: Do YOU take CSS-commissions? I always feel bad for taking up the time of people on dA with questions like that. ^^'

Thanks again for all the help though! I really have no idea how to thank you for this. ^^

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Darqx In reply to drachenmagier [2015-08-07 16:36:41 +0000 UTC]

That's the usual scenario with code - something's always in the wrong place XDD

Well it's not official yet but i was considering doing CSS code commissions Where people provide me with the images/colours for their design and i'd just code it up for them from the ground up and make everything work. They'd prob start from like $20 AUD or something and include: as much responsiveness as possible (so it resizes nicely), testing on diff browsers, styling for maybe 2 headings and a blockquote, a simple menu...the price would increase the harder a design would be haha. So if you think the price is decent and you got a journal design you want coded feel free to hit me up

Twas no problem!

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drachenmagier In reply to Darqx [2015-08-08 08:14:22 +0000 UTC]

I will so bookmark you for the moment when I finally redraw the header of the journal (that drawing is really old and I should replace it eventually with something new). For the moment, I would mostly need the code of the journal cleaned up, unnecessary parts removed and maybe bit of extra tweaking of the colours and spacing. I'm not sure how long such a thing would take for you, so can you give me quote for that? Though... you will most likely need to see the code to know how long it will take you and with that how much it will cost. ^^

And would paypal be ok? Though I have to warn you: You will most likely facepalm a few times when you see the code. XD Happens when someone like me tried that. d:

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Darqx In reply to drachenmagier [2015-08-08 16:09:32 +0000 UTC]

Yea it would be good to see the code first so i know what i'd be working with and whether it would be better to just rewrite it or not haha! You can note me your journal code (or a link to all the code written somewhere) so i can have a look and then give you a quote Your current journal design is pretty simple though so i doubt it would go over $20 even if i rewrote it and everything.

Paypal is fine! I haven't used it in a while though, so i'll just have to check into it because i think i read somewhere there was some specific way to pay for digital stuff (otherwise they'll auto put down that you need to put in a shipping addy or something).

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drachenmagier In reply to Darqx [2015-08-08 21:00:37 +0000 UTC]

I'm someone who loves simple lines. d: So, yeah, there is not too much code around, I think. Just wrote and sent the note too. ^^

I normally send invoices with paypal, because there I can separately list shipping costs or - if those are not needed - leave them out and add the "no shipping of physical item" to the item description. Gives you the most control over it, if you ask me. Including the information the buyer sees from you. Though even if you prefer to simply let me send money, it's pretty clear that a CSS-rewrite won't need shipping.

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eggceIIent In reply to ??? [2015-08-03 19:04:29 +0000 UTC]

thankyou for making this! i finally made a journal skin for myself |D

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Darqx In reply to eggceIIent [2015-08-04 16:40:38 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome! I hope you had fun creating it!

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Sotkettu In reply to ??? [2015-07-30 13:51:25 +0000 UTC]

Is it possible to make this creator in html5 or other? Just asking because I don't want to install a Flash plugin anymore because there is really often news how you will get viruses from it.

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Darqx In reply to Sotkettu [2015-07-31 13:59:54 +0000 UTC]

There is a possibility for a website version of a v2 Creator but when that will be is debatable as i have to look into how to create/code it

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Sivsi In reply to ??? [2015-07-29 00:29:52 +0000 UTC]

Is the mood box necessary? c:

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Darqx In reply to Sivsi [2015-07-29 12:43:39 +0000 UTC]

Nope! If you don't want any mood stuff just make sure you dont have anything filled in in your journal's "more options" section

If you do want mood box stuff there i'd recommend setting both a row and alternate row colour in the creator's "misc" tab, otherwise it won't have any padding and the text will be squished against the side of your journal.

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Sivsi In reply to Darqx [2015-07-29 20:56:46 +0000 UTC]

Ah, for some reason it still shows up D:

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Darqx In reply to Sivsi [2015-07-30 08:04:47 +0000 UTC]

I havent used the mood boxes in a long time, sorry XD;
Is everything your journal's mood box section empty, including the mood emoticon?

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Sivsi In reply to Darqx [2015-07-29 16:36:31 +0000 UTC]

Alrighty, thank you very much! c:

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SimplySilent In reply to ??? [2015-07-09 01:05:45 +0000 UTC]

This is awesome! I'm glad there are so many resources for journal skins now.

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Darqx In reply to SimplySilent [2015-07-09 10:41:14 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I really like all the resources you've made handy for people too, they're very helpful (i just found your sneaky invisible buttons code yesterday, came in handy to spruce up the image "buttons" i had in my Yo box!)

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Shinhoyo In reply to ??? [2015-07-01 16:02:58 +0000 UTC]

Nice! Thank you, I have no idea of coding, and I don't have premium yet, but I will make already some for later!   for this

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Darqx In reply to Shinhoyo [2015-07-02 15:11:10 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome! ^^ Have fun for when you get premium

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KuumiArt In reply to ??? [2015-06-30 22:37:28 +0000 UTC]

omg, I adore this!!! Thank you so much for sharing!! I'm absolutely in love wit the simple, and clean layouts! xDD (my favorite kind lol)  ♥♥♥

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Darqx In reply to KuumiArt [2015-07-02 14:36:02 +0000 UTC]

Inorite! There's just something about simple and clean layouts that's just so satisfying

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