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Welcome to styles and design!

== Styles areas ==

* Designing system styles
* Designing styles to share with others
* Assisting others with their styles
* Creating public mood themes
* Converting submitted CSS styles to S2 themes
* Testing and revising draft styles in <dwcomm>dreamscapes</dwcomm>
* Developing S2's capabilities and backend work, like adding modules
* Documentation

== Places to collaborate or get help ==

* The official styles community, where you can read announcements from the team and ask questions, is <dwcomm>dw_styles</dwcomm>.
* The official community for submitting styles for consideration to be included in the system is <dwcomm>dreamscapes</dwcomm>.  You can go there and submit drafts of intended system styles you'd like help with, and you can also help out others with their styles.
* There are also some auxillary help communities: <dwcomm>style_system</dwcomm> and <dwcomm>layoutmakers</dwcomm>.  These are appropriate places to ask questions about the style system and share resources.
* You can find tools to help you develop Dreamwidth styles at <dwcomm>the_style_kit</dwcomm>
* We currently know of two established communities for sharing styles: <dwcomm>dreamwidthlayouts</dwcomm> and <dwcomm>mintyapple</dwcomm>.
* The IRC channel [irc://irc.dreamwidth.org/dw_styles #dw_styles] is available for real time communication; for more information on using IRC, see the [[IRC]] and [[IRC help]] wiki pages.
* [http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&component=Style+System&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= Here is a list of style bugs] on [[Bugzilla]]; you can read more on doing development in particular on [[Dev Getting Started]].

== Current documentation ==

=== S2 ===

Currently, the S2 documentation is kind of sad and out of shape.

* [http://www.livejournal.com/doc/s2/ LJ's old S2 docs] -- these have some useful information
* There is also an [[:Category: S2|S2 Category]] of pages, but not very comprehensive or enlightening.
* People already familiar with S2 might be able to glean things from the [http://hg.dwscoalition.org/dw-free/file/tip/bin/upgrading/s2layers/core2.s2 core2.s2] code.
* People familiar with S2 <i>and</i> Perl might be able to glean more from the [http://hg.dwscoalition.org/dw-free/file/tip/cgi-bin/LJ/S2.pm S2.pm] code.

=== CSS ===

* [[S2 CSS]] -- a listing of the current DW specific CSS classes for layouts

== Other resources ==

=== CSS ===

* [http://www.csszengarden.com/ CSS Zen Garden] has a [http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/resources/ resources list]
* [http://www.alistapart.com/topics/code/css/ A List Apart CSS articles]

=== Color scheming ===

* [http://www.colourlovers.com/ ColourLovers]'s [http://www.colourlovers.com/copaso Copaso]
* [http://colorschemedesigner.com/ Color Scheme Designer]
* [http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html 4096 Color Wheel]
* [http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/index.php Color Palette Generator]
* [http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html Color Schemer 2.0]
* [http://www.colr.org/ Colr]
* [http://kuler.adobe.com/ Kuler]

=== Stock photos ===

* [http://search.creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons image search]
* [http://www.sxc.hu/ Stock.XHNG]

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