Description: This will display the members skin choice in their member profile as a template variable, {userskin}.

Requirements: eFiction 2.0

Difficulty: Very easy

Mod History:
- November 12, 2005 — Released to public

Modification & Support: eFiction.org

Files Involved:

• viewuser.php

Instructions:

Skin Name: Zenlike

Version: eFiction 2.0

Developer: Sally Anderson (Lazuli)

License: Free to use, so long as the credit in the footer remains intact.

Feel free to edit, modify, or alter this skin in any way. Doing so will not offend, upset, or bother me in any way. All I ask is that you please keep the footer crediting the photographer and brush artist intact unless you completely remove that part of the header graphic.

Description: Zenlike is a slightly oriental themed skin colored white and pale green. This is a very lightweight skin that uses NO custom header graphics. Everything is based on CSS text, font, and background effects.

Demo: Demo @ eFiction.org

Download: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26126583/

NOTICE: I am no longer interested in continuing to support Marauders. It’s old, uses techniques I’d never use today, and contains copyrighted images. There will be no further updates made to this skin.

Skin Name: Marauders

eFiction Version: 2.0

Developer: Lazuli

License: GPL

Feel free to edit, modify, or alter my skins. Doing so will not offend, upset, or bother me in any way. In fact, all I care about is that you correctly credit the people whose material I may have used (if applicable). I, myself, don’t need any credit.

Description: Old world looking skin featuring artwork from the Marauders Map from the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Notes: This is a very old skin and may not be 100% up to date with the current requirements of eFiction.

Demo: Demo: Screenshot @ deviantArt

Download: marauders.zip (Updated 08 July 2006)

Description: This mod will place a link to your user’s Deviant Art Account in their author bio.

Requirements: eFiction 2.0

Difficulty: Easy

Mod History:
- November 02, 2005, 10:14:45 PM — Mod released to public

Files Involved:

• Database alteration
• user.php
• viewuser.php
• language/en.php

Modification & Support Link: eFiction.org

Instructions:

My new layout is giving me all kinds of fits.

LOL Yes, another. XD This layout was just temporary until my photos came back.

Anyroad, I’m attempting to pull of a really cool CSS trick where I make it look like I’m using frames when I’m not. The middle area is supposed to scroll while the area outside is supposed to remain static. I even created a nice mouse-over navigation… though I couldn’t make it anywhere as sophisticated as the first time I saw one like it.

I have the layout working. In Firefox at least. I found out only after I’d lost my temper that IE doesn’t support fixed positioning. >_>

I searched through Google and found a few different work-arounds and I managed to get it looking a little better. Not great, but a little. The whole thing came together just as fast as my old Poison Paradise layout and I love it just as much. Which grates at me because Poison Paradise worked on everything, this thing won’t work on IE.

…. and I just realized that I really need to get working on my homework, but this is far more interesting. ^^;;

Well, the mess with Mesopia went easier than I thought it would. Still no word back on my domain, well, unless you just count the receipt of them charging us $12 for the domain. *sighs*

Today was a massive grocery getting day, a quick attempt to fill up the pantry until we can get another chance to catch out breath.

Well, it didn’t last long. Apparently, mom didn’t think for the last rent check she wrote and it bounced. All of five days before she cashed her next paycheck. Since I’ll be the only one home tomorrow, I suppose it’s up to me to go talk to the landlords and beg forgiveness for the check. I don’t remember for sure, but I seem to recall seeing a note in the rules we agreed to that says we now have to pay via money order. Oh well, that’s for tomorrow.

(Waiiit… wasn’t I avoiding money matters?)

First week of college went okay, I’m pretty sure I can do this. The group project they want for this next week is a little scary, but everyone seems pretty nice. I really didn’t do anything today with it, so tomorrow I have to check the class message boards again and make myself known.

It’s hilarious, Jass and I have become lurkers on every MB on the planet… with the exception of the school boards. Thing is, since we’re not appearing in person, we have to make significant posts in order to be considered “participating.” But it’s not that hard, the instructors give you essay questions you have to answer almost every day and since everyone is so nice; chit-chat is easy too.

The academic advisors already have my summer classes picked out. I get to take Composition II, Human Relations, File Management, and Internet and the WWW. Composition II sounds okay, I’ve needed it for a while and I’m not sure what to make of Human Relations. But taking me through Files and a introduction to the internet is just, well…. funny?

Yeah, my blog isn’t pretty anymore. I HAD to upgrade wordpress. So tomorrow, after the walk to the office and then school, I’ll settle down and rework my poison layout to work with the new version. I tried to get the LiveJournal auto-update program to work with WordPress, but it’s not compatable. So, I’m still crossposting.

Much love to everyone