take my picture.

this skin took me far, far too long. sometimes i have an idea though, and i just have to see it all the way through to the end, even if it takes forever.

the idea came from seeing this skin, which i thought was super cool because it has moveable elements! then i thought, wouldn't it be cool to have each entry like a polaroid, and they create a pile that you can shuffle and move? when i realized that was way more of an investment than i wanted to make, i decided on the desk thing because that's always neat.

so here's what it does:
- you can pick up and move the post-it notes and the polaroid
- comments enabled
- post titles are permalinks
- will look and function identically in all major browsers EXCEPT IE, which doesn't show the shadow on the polaroid and has a small glitch with the positioning of the sideways text. (tested in ie8, mff, chrome, safari, and opera)
- will look fine in the most common screen resolutions
- code is commented pretty clearly (i think!) so you can easily find and change whatever you're looking for.
- ** the special font is loaded via an external stylesheet, so you can use it ANYWHERE on the page just by calling it, just like you would any other font! your computer doesn't actually have to download it - it's loaded IN the stylesheet - so it shouldn't take long to load and should show up for ALL browsers since it's only text.

TO USE THIS SKIN:
1. set your template style to old/classic, obviously
2. set your comments to popup
3. in settings ... formatting, set your posts to "1 post" on the main page
4. avoid using labels if you can
5. avoid long titles if you can
6. when writing a new post, place the code for your picture FIRST, then the words. pictures should be 500px by about 375px. smaller, it will look awkward. larger, it will scroll, which is super ugly.

ETA: totally forgot about the previews! since there's a preview error, here is the permanent live preview, and this is the temp live preview on blogspot.

this skin is totally experimental and by no means meant to be a work of art. i simply wanted to see if my idea was possible to execute! if you're interested in using the basecode, or if you think you can improve it or build on it, please please email me or message me to ask! i'm honestly really interested in what someone else might come up with. also, leave me comments, whatever they may be, so i can work on this and fix anything that may be broken. ♥