Coding help?

[fignewton]

sg1genrecs is my little baby here at Dreamwidth, and I'm kinda proud of it. :) We don't get more than four or five recs a month, but we've got a pretty respectable number of people subscribed, and and I'm always delighted when we get new reccers. In fact, the theme right now is your favorite fic - why not go post something?

The comm's layout was set up before DW went into open beta, when there were very few layouts available, and I used a Core 1 Mixit layout that has worked out very nicely. But there's one thing I'd really love to add, and that's multilevel tagging. That means that instead of looking like this:

friendship: daniel and cameron - 5 uses

friendship: jack and daniel - 100 uses

friendship: jack and janet - 3 uses

friendship: jack and sam - 16 uses

friendship: sam and daniel - 64 uses

friendship: sam and sha're - 4 uses

friendship: sam and teal'c - 20 uses

friendship: teal'c and daniel - 42 uses

friendship: teal'c and jack - 19 uses

friendship: teal'c and vala - 1 use

It would look like this:

friendship

• daniel and cameron [5]


• jack and daniel [100]


• jack and janet [3]


• jack and sam [16]


• sam and daniel [64]


• sam and sha're [4]


• sam and teal'c [20]


• teal'c and daniel [42]


• teal'c and jack [19]


• teal'c and vala [1]

I really like the look of the multilevel tagging. It's neater, easier to navigate, and makes a lot of sense for a comm with over 60 tags. Unfortunately, multilevel tags aren't supported by the Mixit layout, which is Core 1 - although it is available for Core 2.

So. I asked over at style_system and got some very helpful advice from foxfirefey which I tried to follow and, well, couldn't. Sigh. How badly am I dating myself if I mention that I first learned programming with Basic? I can follow the coding of the layout - mostly - but when it comes to tweaking, I'm apparently pretty hopeless.

I did a little poking around and found Dignified Transmogrified, which supports multilevel tags and is at least a color scheme that I like. But I really enjoy the look of the current layout, and I'd hate to lose it.

So, bottom line: is there someone out there who is familiar enough with the S1 and S2 layout codes to help me with this? I don't want to lose the very pretty layout we have right now, especially with sg_betty's lovely matching banner. If anyone can advise me, or would even be willing to dive into the layout code and wrestle it with themselves, I'd be very grateful.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

i am totally daunted by anything resembling programming or coding, so i'm no help to you there (plus I'm looking at having to have to learn a whole bunch of new stuff in a work related vein that will soak up the little technical type energy i have), but i just wanted to pipe up and say that i do very much enjoy the recs and i am so glad you have chosen to create the comm.

thank you!

[fignewton]

Thanks! It's great to know the comm is helping spread gen squee. :)

[sixbeforelunch]

I was almost going to say that you'd be better off changing your layout, but then I looked at the layout and it's very pretty and I can see why you want to keep it.

*peers at code*

*scratches head*

Unfortunately, I think this is over my head. I've never been good with S2 stuff. Sorry. :-/

[fignewton]

It's funny - I never cared about layouts before DW. I still use Smooth Sailing over at LJ. But I really do like the pretty layout we have at sg1genrecs.

Thanks for the moral support, anyway. :)

[afuna]

Probably easiest is to copy-paste the S2 code from here:

http://community.livejournal.com/s2expressive/54163.html#cutid1

If you're interested in any of the other features available to core2 layouts, I'd be happy to do it the other way around and take a look at converting the CSS to work with one of the core2 layouts :)

[fignewton]

Oh, thank you! That's just fantastic, assuming I can do it properly. :D

And I see that the comments include instructions on how to do it for the tag page, too, not just the sidebar. Wonderful! Let's hope it works... :)

[fignewton]

Just wanted to thank you again. :)

It turns out that multilevel is pretty unwieldy in the sidebar, but it looks just gorgeous on the tags page and I'm very happy with it. I removed the tag sidebar and added a link to the tags page instead - much neater that way.

If I have any more troubles in the future, I'll know where to wave frantically for help!

[afuna]

Awesome, glad it worked out for you! (I came in via rydra_wong's entry, btw! But I keep an eye on style_system as well. :-))