Feature of recent submissions to the DeviantArt Related > DeviantArt Skins & Scripts > Journal & Gallery Skins category. These were submitted since last week's feature. This feature is currently scheduled for every Thursday.
Actively searching through these has really shown me how many miscats are in our beloved dArelated category. Considering that we no longer have a CV, we should probably take it upon ourselves to make sure others know what goes where. A lot of people have mentioned not knowing where to post things such as Custom Box BGs. I think Journal Graphics or Devious Fun are the most popular sections for those. Where do you post yours?
Another thing I have found, quite often actually... Commissions being offered as Installables. If you are doing a skin request, that is okay as it will be something free-to-use for all deviants. But an exclusive, custom journal skin should be private to the commissioner unless they permit for it to be free for everyone. Now, there is a really easy solution if you need to make it installable for ease of use for your commission, Sta.sh it. GinkgoWerkstatt has a great tutorial for this very thing. It is to create a thumbnail of your own personal skin library, but it can be used for your commission as well. It's fairly easy to do, just don't fully submit it to deviantART. You pick out your preview and installation files and that is it.
Actively searching through these has really shown me how many miscats are in our beloved dArelated category. Considering that we no longer have a CV, we should probably take it upon ourselves to make sure others know what goes where. A lot of people have mentioned not knowing where to post things such as Custom Box BGs. I think Journal Graphics or Devious Fun are the most popular sections for those. Where do you post yours?
Another thing I have found, quite often actually... Commissions being offered as Installables. If you are doing a skin request, that is okay as it will be something free-to-use for all deviants. But an exclusive, custom journal skin should be private to the commissioner unless they permit for it to be free for everyone. Now, there is a really easy solution if you need to make it installable for ease of use for your commission, Sta.sh it. GinkgoWerkstatt has a great tutorial for this very thing. It is to create a thumbnail of your own personal skin library, but it can be used for your commission as well. It's fairly easy to do, just don't fully submit it to deviantART. You pick out your preview and installation files and that is it.
Below, I have the sections of the Journals and Gallery Skin category of deviantART Related.
Installables
These are CSS that have the easy install option. The txt file has deviantART's code structure parsed and all image files are packed into the installation hosted via dA. These can have Premium Content added if you wish to offer additional features for points
<da:thumb id="538467537"/><da:thumb id="537392629"/>
Designs
Designs would be any skin layout or commission that are not available for anyone to install where you are the designer of the layout. If the design belongs to the commission, then Complete CSS may be the proper category for your submission.Complete CSS
Complete CSS is a package of txt files, images, help documents, etc that the user will need to install, upload and manage files themselves. This category also includes gallery skins, which are also not installable. Package can also contain everything that is able to be customized on deviantART like the custom boxes and more.Graphics/Custom Box
Journal graphics would be the components of your skin. BGs, mouse cursors, Headers, Footers, dividers, etc. These are not necessarily stock, you may wish to add in your artist comments whether or not permissions is granted for free use. Custom Box BGs are commonly in this section as well. This category is similar to Resource & Stock Images>Designs & Patterns or Design & Interfaces>Web Interfaces except that it is for dA related only.<da:thumb id="537401309"/>
<da:thumb id="538457240"/><da:thumb id="538456478"/>
Journal Signature
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Journal Signature
If categorization is confusing, I suggest we brainstorm below clean up ideas for each section and what it includes. Then we can present the ideas to moonbeam13 ikazon who is the staff member who currently accepts DD suggestions for deviantART related .
This art feature is curated from the most recent contributions to the deviantART related CSS skins categories. I have not added ones with incomplete previews or fan skins with questionable image credits. Since it is hard to determine the permissions for those, I will not often be featuring such skins.
This art feature is curated from the most recent contributions to the deviantART related CSS skins categories. I have not added ones with incomplete previews or fan skins with questionable image credits. Since it is hard to determine the permissions for those, I will not often be featuring such skins.
CSS Trick
by CelvasZ-index Topper
The value of the z-index property controls the stacking order of images, text, everything. The deviantART selector .gr-top sports its own z-index value (20), which makes it easier to position other elements below it in order. Yet it's very simple to work around .gr-top's z-index value by setting your own z-index value higher, therefore positioning it above .gr-top. (You'll also need to define the position property of both your intended element and .gr-top as absolute.) You can then move the elements using the top property..above-gr-top {
position: absolute;
z-index: 30;
}
.gr-top {
position: absolute;
}