Mood theme help/question

[beck]

When making sizing images for a mood theme, they can't exceed over 100 with W & H correct? Or better yet, what is the best # to use for the W&H when making mood themes?

If anyone can answer this sometime today would be of great help!

Comments

[akuni.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, the images themselves can be any size. I've seen some annoyingly large ones. :S I like 60x40px just because it's small enough not to make a short post feel cluttered, but large enough to still see the image. I think it's just a coincidence that that adds up to 100 - your current mood theme is larger than that already.

I think it's just the URL for the pic can't exceed 100 characters. At least, that's the only thing I can find in the moodtheme FAQ.

[yankeerose69.livejournal.com]

I know I recall seeing a mood theme one time that they were nearly as huge as icons. It looked so ugly.

The 100 characters part is what confused me when I was checking out the FAQ before making my entry.

There are some that are sized 90x45 and they still look nice and clear. I can't do that with my images w/out looking too squished or blurred. So right now I've been having to make them 100x75.

[akuni.livejournal.com]

That seems fairly reasonable. I think you just have to keep the same ratio and they'll look ok. Not sure how they scale for people with funky resolutions, but that's not really our problem. ;)

When I made a moodtheme, I just picked out the base pics, I wasn't the one doing the crops, so we have now reached the extent of my knowledge. :D Hopefully yours will turn out ok!

[yankeerose69.livejournal.com]

While I think of it cause I was able to finally get my fanwork journal layout working again, but can you see my entries: http://community.livejournal.com/becks_closet/

I noticed that when I went to LJ on my laptop and wasn't signed in, I couldn't see the entries but once I logged in, I could.

I think ever since LJ messed around with the Basic and Plus accounts, it also screwed up layouts for S1, especially if you had a custom layout created. It also did that for my BECR comm and the entries would show up to non-members if I had a paid account. I'm not going to be wasting anymore money to LJ just for these accounts of mine. The person who told me about my BECR comm wasn't a LJ account holder at the time.

[akuni.livejournal.com]

Yup, I can still see the entries while logged in.

I just hang my head and sigh every time they start to make changes again. Not sure why they feel some stuff just doesn't need to be documented, argh! I don't ever want to change my layout, for fear it's precariously balanced, and any slight edit might send the whole thing toppling down. :P

[tsukasas-biatch.livejournal.com]

The 100x100px limit is only for the icons. Mood Themes can be as big or as small as you'd like them to be. As akuni pointed out, you could always reference to the mood them faq...

Hope this helps! ^_^y


--Lucky