Hi,
Just a quickie for all those who have more experience than little me, is there anywhere apart from the MT site where you can get templates/stylesheet templates for MT?

Cheers
Cathy

I have quite a few stylesheet based layouts up on blogstyles, and then there are graphics-based layouts at love-productions and in the blogplates ring

Hope that helps!
Kristine

Yeah, Blogstyles is top!!
That is one top notch site there, and I love some of the designs going on!!!

Thanks very much for that, I have now blogrolled Blogstyles to my blog!!

Cathy

I gathered quite a few links regarding web journal templates and put it together on a separate page on my blogsite.  

Go here for the discussion about templates....
http://www.jonielectric.com/blogging.html#templates

Graphic Goo also offers a monthly column featuring new linkware designs.  :)

thanks for all the links and resources. they have been very helpful, although they haven't given me the exact kind of template I wish to use they have filled my littl ebrain with plenty f ideas!!!!  :p  ;)

Most of these websites are very girly templates.  Any more masculine out there?

So far, I haven't found a lot of guys who design MT templates.  And I've looked, because I'd love to have some good alternatives in the Blogplates ring, and right now, there's a lot of girls!!!  I have a feeling that some of that comes from the fact that the people who have linkware available on their sites are more likely to be women, and men tend to create things by request, in my experience.  

The best I can offer right now is that some of the stylesheet-based designs at blogstyles are a bit more unisex.  And if you find a set that's not specifically made for a blog, I know I've written up posts about using normal graphics sets as blog templates in the past, and could probably find that for you!

If you do find any other designers that would be a good addition to the blogplates ring, send the info my way!  I'd love to contact them about joining!

Kristine

Kristine
That 3 column temple is pretty damned cool and it is the format I am looking for but I don't know how to make it a color other than purple.  How do I choose from the different colors?

LOL.  Never mind I scrolled down the page and found it.  :)
Thanks!

Glad that helped you out!  There are several other sets of 3 column stylesheets that work with that template, too, so if you want, you can check them out too

Kristine

I have a question maybe you can help me with.  I am using the 3 column template with the orange style css.  When I include a link in my text it is basically the same color as the text next to it.  I want the link colors to stand out and maybe be a different color, how do I do that?
thanks

You can change the a and a:link sections in the stylesheet - look for this:

and change the color number to a color you like

Kristine

I found those, made changes and republished but I don't see a color change.  I want the link to stand out so maybe a green shade what would the code be for that?

Ok after further investigation here is what I found:  I was looking for the A: link entries you told me about in the styles.css file.  The only ones I found were at the very top



If I change the a:link here it only modifies the link on the "recent entries" area.
I need to make the links I am putting in the posts stand out.

The spot that you changed actually changes the colors for the whole document.  I tried this:
and that gave me green links everywhere but the posts, which had red links.  

Does that help?
Kristine

Ahh but it is inside the posts that I am wanting to change the colors.  Where is that stored?

you want the links in the posts to stand out?  That was the 2nd half of that last post.  add this to your stylesheet:
.blogbody a, .blogbody a:link {color: red;}
and only the links that are inside the post will be red.

Kristine

That is strange it only made some of them red.

I'm starting over with the original style sheet because I have made too many changes and didn't track them.  I will add this change after I reset the style sheet and see what happens.  :)

When you are playing with it, you may also want to add a different color for the visited links and/or the hovered links.  



That might have been why you were only seeing some of the links in the body change colors because the visited ones were still getting the old color

Kristine

Is there any particular place I need to put that code in the stylesheet?

That did it.  Great!  Thanks so much!