You can change your Kos experiece to a liquid layout in three easy steps...
[NEW!] Now with comment indentation greatly reduced!
Your experience will look like this:
How to after the click...
How To Install:
1. Install
Firefox 1.0.4
2. Install
GreaseMonkey into Firefox (clicking from Firefox will install)
3. Right click on
this link and select Install User Script (and click all the oks)
4. Reload DKos!
credits:
I had a lot of help from
this thread.
And of course from all the people who put together
GreaseMonkey and the Grease Monkey
How To Online Book final thoughts There is another layout that uses the new logo after the click. I took the ads out of these layouts because the site template is backward for good CSS layouts I think. It wasn't easy to just push that ad column off to the right, so following the course of many others I hid it. If the page layout structure had made more sense I would have left it in.
If you hate it!
"Yuck" you say, "what a stupid change!"
Ok, here is how to uninstall it...
1. Under
Tools select
Manage User Scripts
2. Select the "DailyKos Attention" script in the left hand list.
3. Click UNINSTALL
final thoughts:
This version is good for people with larger monitors. People with smaller monitors will not find the liquid layout as successful, and it probably isn't useful to them anyway.
I took the ads out because the site template is backward for good CSS layouts I think. It wasn't easy to just push that ad column off to the right, so following the course of many others I hid it. If the page layout structure had made more sense I would have left it in.
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The second version
Immediately below uses the New Logo and is also a Liquid Layout
features:
smaller right hand menu
menu is next to main text
main text is a liquid width
orange is toned down to ocher
Known problem: the comments still are not great. Not my fault!
Your DKos will look like this:
// DKosAttent
// version 0.2
// 2005-06-24
//
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//
// This is a Greasemonkey user script.
//
// To install, you need Greasemonkey: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
//
// To uninstall, go to Tools/Manage User Scripts,
// select "DailyKos Attention", and click Uninstall.
//
//
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//
// WHAT IT DOES:
//
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//
// ==UserScript==
// @name Dailykos Attention
// @description Makes a liquid layout
// @include http://www.dailykos.com/*
// @include http://dailykos.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
function addGlobalStyle(css) {
var head, style;
head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
if (!head) { return; }
style = document.createElement('style');
style.type = 'text/css';
style.innerHTML = css;
head.appendChild(style);
}
var mast = document.getElementsByTagName('img');
if( mast )
{
mast[0].src = "http://www.dailykos.com/images/admin/masthead_ads.gif";
mast[0].height = "123";
mast[0].width = "350";
}
addGlobalStyle('body {background:#fff url(); color: #000; padding: 0; margin: 0; font: 11px/1.6 Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height:1.45em ! important;}');
addGlobalStyle('#container {background: url(); width: 100%; height: 93px; margin: 0 auto; position: relative; background-color:white ! important;}');
addGlobalStyle('#main {position:relative; left:0px; padding:0px 168px 0px 12px; margin:0px; width:auto; background-color:white; z-index:1 ! important;}');
addGlobalStyle('#ads {display:none; ! important;}');
addGlobalStyle('#sidebar {position:absolute; right:0px; margin:0px; width: 160px; font-size: .9em; padding:10px 0px 30px 0px; margin-top:0px; border-left:solid 1px #ccc;
background-color:white; z-index:2 ! important;}');
addGlobalStyle(' #sidebar h3 {background:#e59044; font-weight:bolder; color: #FFF; padding: 0.25em 10px 0.15em 10px; ! important;}');
addGlobalStyle(' #sidebar a {border-bottom:solid 1px #ccc; ! important;}');
addGlobalStyle(' #sidebar li a {border-bottom:none; ! important;}');