[DW-only] Help?

[thefourthvine]

I feel pathetic posting about this, but: you guys, my DW friends page (whatever, reading page, circle page, We're Happy and We Love Each Other and We Have Big Snuggles page - I am not up on the terminology, okay?) is so ugly I can't read it. I have tried and tried. (Because when something doesn't work, try again to make sure it doesn't work has always been my motto. Yes, this works fine. No, really. NO, REALLY.)

All that black behind all that white gives me a shrieking headache. And I have clicked around some, but I cannot figure out how to make it less painful. Are there simple steps I can take? Ideally that will only take a few minutes, because that's all the time I have right now? Ideally ones that will also put the names of the people posting back under the icons, where I am used to them being? (I need a big clear label, maybe on a t-shirt or something, that says: Does not handle change well. Or indeed at all. Still pretty upset about the transition to walking.)

*whines helplessly*

Dreamwidth, you are shiny and I want to love you, but right now we just can't see each other, okay? Or, to be more specific, I can't see you and still see.

Comments

[cimorene]

There IS a difference between importing an lj style like the ones linked by smallbeer and using the DW native styles: part of DW's awesomeness is updating the LJ style system with all kinds of cool functionality. Using an imported style means you don't get that functionality. However, if you want to do it, grrliz has a bunch of custom Mixit themes and instructions here for installing them on Dreamwidth.

However, to keep using DW's awesome functionality, you can select Transmogrified (see it at dw_styles) or Zesty (see it at danglypartsiple) on the Customize page. Click 'apply this theme' and you're done, but you can also change the colours manually now through the Customization wizard if you then click 'Customize your theme'.

But you aren't limited to the default colors of Transmogrified and Zesty, either. There's already an amateur free style community at dreamwidthlayouts, and there are a couple of DW-native layouts with instructions for installing them there.