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[lina_trinch]

Requests & Commissions

Requests ❖ Requests are free! ❖ A request is anything that's kinda vague, like asking for more thread trackers or a muselist with dropdown elements. Something that you want made publicly available and wouldn't be a big project for me. ❖ Requests are prioritized beneath something I'm already working on and commissions. Essentially, I'll get to it when I can, but I will get to it. ❖ If you want a biosheet, layout, something personalized, or something only you can use, then it would be a commission. Commissions ❖ I take all commission payments through my PayPal. You can also consider joining the Patreon for exclusive content or checking out my Ko-Fi Shop for previously exclusive codes! ❖ General Codes $3: Navigations, muselists, playlists, etc. ❖ Personalized Biosheets $15: Images of your character/PB will be included. ❖ Extras: Text (history, personality, etc.) Playlist Songs Visual Images +$3 each Meaning if you want me to come up with songs for a playlist on your biosheet, the whole thing would be $18. ❖ Journal Layouts $45: Includes icon page, tag page, archive, and mobile friendliness. ❖ Editing Existing Layouts $30: If you want something that's already around personalized for your purposes. ❖ Plurk Layouts $50: Can include animated effects, specialized dash, dark mode appearance, etc. The Chrome extension Plurk Jailbreak is recommended to make the layout look as intended but is not necessary. ❖ Game Info Pages $80: Includes navigation, premise, rules/faq, applications, reserves, hiatus/drop, event templates, mod comment templates, taken, player contact, locations/businesses/employment, abilities/traits, profiles, advertisements, and anything else that your game may need. If you only need certain pages overhauled and not the whole package, we can work out a price on a case-by-case basis. ❖ Larger Commissions $90+: Game apps, websites, front-end UI/UX design, back-end database setups, etc etc. Price varies based on a case by case basis and I give no guarantees that I'll take your commission. But if you have an idea of something you want to get done beyond the scope of DreamWidth, I can probably help you. Largely depends on my skillset and free time. If you want examples of the things I do, check out my GitHub.

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[lina_trinch]

Hi there!

I should totally be able to adjust the widths of the boxes for your sticky entry. I can make them dynamic so that they'll adjust to the screen width instead of static the way they are now. It should look nicer on mobile, too.

(Thanks for the tip about discord images! I had no idea about that lol)

I'll make the finishing touches to the sticky entry code and send it to you when I can. I'm a bit under the weather atm, so it'll take a couple of days.

Now, I believe we were working on a journal layout in addition to the website itself, if I remember correctly? I'm going to dig through my files, look through our previous conversations, and get back to work on all of those. I should have more progress by the time I have that code ready for you.

Thanks!

[bluedreaming]

Dynamic width sounds great!

(Glad to hopefully help with that!)

I'm sorry to hear you're under the weather; I hope you feel better soon! I'm very happy to wait for the schedule that works for you (and especially after my tardiness).

The website example/conversation mostly starts in this comment, so I hope that helps! The layout is done except for the sticky post & the related sticky entry code (in use here at writetomyheart) so hopefully that's good news <3

[lina_trinch]

Hi! Thanks for the little catch-up. It was really helpful to remember where we were on all this. ♥

I've got the codes together for the sticky entry (both for the code itself and the little add-on for your layout). I'll DM them to you in just a moment.

A note about the code, though, I wasn't able to make the margins any smaller. I actually ended up having to increase them. This is because they're going into such a narrow post on your journal, to make them all fit in-line on as many screens as possible. It's still dynamic so they'll be larger (and the margins smaller) when viewed on the entry page itself, though.

Feel free to take the codes for a whirl and let me know what you think of them. We can still tweak them here and there once we see how they work in practice.

About the website! I'm going to jump back on that horse as soon as possible and have more results for you very soon. Thank you! ♥

[bluedreaming]

I'm glad that helped!

Codes received! I ran out of time to fully do the sticky post again today, but I have it set up and started. My laptop screen being a strange width struck again:

But if it's most likely just my weird screen dimensions being an exception then I can totally live with it.

As I mentioned, I didn't have a chance to properly fill them out yet, which is why the post isn't public, but it's looking really great!

And re the website; please take your time! I know that was a whole other area.

[lina_trinch]

Hi! This is good timing, because I just uploaded a new preview for the neocities site. (You may have to do a hard refresh to see the changes if you've viewed this page recently.) It's basically just my progress so far on the overall design, but do let me know if you want some particular additions to the entries, like the option to add a user icon or even a user's name or something. The border around each entry is a new addition from the dreamwidth layout, so let me know what you think of those, too.

But anyway! Back to the code. It's definitely screen dimensions, but I also want it to look as good as possible for you. We can try making the boxes themselves smaller or even going the (maybe overboard?) route of just widening the entire primary section of the layout. Going in either direction, we shouldn't have to adjust it by much if you wanna try those things. Otherwise, I like the images you're using for it. The whole thing's looking good so far. :)

[bluedreaming]

I'm going to be out of town and offline until Sunday/Monday, so I'm sorry about the late response; been running about a bit ^^;
The site looks really great! I like the clean lines and simplicty and how it's harmonious with the DW layout.
- I don't think we'll need to add an icon or username since it will be more of an admin/info page.
- The border looks great!
- On mobile it might be helpful to not show any of the grey background (is that a viewport override?) because it's a little narrow - I know the whole design is still in progress though! (How the dw layout works on mobile is really nice width-wise.)


I didn't have time to fill out the code on the live site ;; I do think that widening the entire primary section of the layout might be a bit overboard, though perhaps widening it a little might be generally helpful regardless? Or maybe, perhaps more usefully, it could flip from desktop view to mobile view sooner?
On mobile, the blocks are still a little narrow; I'm not sure if it's possible to let them fill the whole width (to a max so that on desktop it stops at the set width):

These are all small things though! I am really liking how this looks a lot :D

[lina_trinch]

For the site: I'll make a note about mobile viewing removing the gray background. I think that's a good idea. Usually, adjusting for mobile view is my last step in the process, but I've still got it jotted down.

For dreamwidth: I can change it to mobile view quicker, yes. Thinking about it, I should be able to also add some code to the layout's CSS that'll just change your sticky entry code and make it single column/wider. I'm surprised I didn't think of it before now, but I can get on that and send it to you soon, probably by tomorrow.

Thanks for the response! And for the heads up that you're heading out for a bit. I hope it's for good things and you have a good time, lol. ♥

[lina_trinch]

Hello! I know you're away but I'm still sorry this took me a minute to get to. Here's a solution (or at least the start of a solution) to the sticky entry problem.

First thing, go into the sticky entry's code itself and add this in to the very first line of code: class="stickyCustom"

It'll look like:
div class="stickyCustom" style="...

Then you go into your layout's CSS and add this bit to the bottom:
@media (max-width: 1000px) { .stickyCustom { flex-direction: column; } .stickyCustom > div { margin: 15px auto !important; min-width: 250px !important; } }

If you feel like it's adjusting to a single column style too soon, you can change the "1000px" down to something like "800px" or so. Anyway, give that a whirl when you can and let me know how it goes!

[bluedreaming]

I'm sorry about the late response again! I got back and right into four deadlines TT But I did have a good time!

Anyway, I have now tested the class and CSS and they're working great! I ended up switching the 1000px to 1330px actually, since on my desktop at least, that's when it switches from three columns side by side to two columns, so I redirected that to single column. I'll have to check with others what their screens do though. But I think that it's sorted! (just a matter of tweaking that pixel width if needed)

And adjusting for mobile as the last step makes sense!

[lina_trinch]

Glad you had a good time! And glad we got that working for you.

I'm working on some deadlines myself, at the moment, but I'll be back to touch base about updates on the site sometime next week. :) Just letting you know!

[bluedreaming]

Sounds good; good luck with the deadlines!

[lina_trinch]

Hello! Just sending a quick update since the start of the month has come and gone. I have been working on the site, just getting more together before I show another preview. But I wanted to send an update now because we're about to have a hurricane come in and it's possible I may be without the internet for a while (never know how these things are going to go lol). So yeah, I just wanted to send a heads up! Everything's going to be fine irl-wise, but I'll get back to you soon as I can with a new update on the site. ♥

[lina_trinch]

Okay, hello! So, the storm wasn't nearly as bad as we prepared for, yay, lol. I have a (slightly) new preview for you over here. There's only three major changes.

1. The tab name has changed to "writetomyheart - Shiratori." I'm going to eventually include an image, as well. If you have a small image, emoji, or letters (like initials) to use, let me know! I could also just do a gradient of colors or something like that.

2. The navigation exists! The pages don't go anywhere yet, but I added "Participation" to take the place of "Instructions/Rules" just because it... flows better? But let me know what you think about that. You know your userbase better than me, so I don't want to put something in that'll confuse them.

3. The time sink, lmao. The footer! I was able to add SVG icons for your socials. The issue was the Dreamwidth logo. I eventually gave up and just made my own. It wasn't too difficult, and I'd like to think it came out looking like the real thing. (I even considered joining the Dreamwidth dev's Discord server that I happened across on my search but I was like "no, let's not ask for help, let's do the most difficult option on the table instead" but anyway.)

I have some time to focus on your site fully, so I'm going to start on the rules page very soon. The text will (for now, unless you want changes) be a carbon copy of your current rules page, but I'll include a small navigation near the top with anchor links, allowing your users to jump around easily to different sections. I'm going to want to get the formatting right on this section, so it's going to take me a moment to complete, lol. But do let me know if you want to rewrite these or something.

Anyway, thank you!! ♥

[lina_trinch]

Hello! I finished the redesign on the rules page! From the main navigation, this can be accessed from the "Participation" link for now. Let me know what you think of the general styling. I also included anchor links so you can jump around the page.

Also! The site is mobile-friendly now! It's not super perfect, but it's much better than it was.

Let me know what you think whenever you can. My next hurdle is probably going to be designing the dark mode of this site. After that, I'm not sure where to go. I think the sign up/log in portions are supposed to be outside of this main site? Perhaps the fanlore/history page should be next?

Anyway, let me know! Thank you!

[lina_trinch]

Hi! No rush. Just pinging to check in with you to see how things are going since it's been awhile. ♥

[bluedreaming]

I’m so sorry! I must have snoozed your original comment to reply to when I got home (or whatever schedule) and then my email ate it (because I saw it do the same thing today). I’ll reply tomorrow

[lina_trinch]

That's okay! Take your time. With the holidays coming up, I'm going to be quite busy, which is why I wanted to check in now, lol. I just wanted to see how you were and give a heads up about my upcoming schedule.

[bluedreaming]

That’s totally fair and very understandable!

[lina_trinch]

Hi! My schedule is more or less free once again. Just checking in to see if you're still interested and, if you are, if you have thoughts on the earlier things I sent along.