I want a customized profile

April 30, 2002 6:18 PM

[From the really small bugs dept.]:I was on my way to iconomy's blog and came across her user profile. It's all grey and faded. What's happened - and can I have one like it too?
posted by MiguelCardoso to bugs at 6:18 PM (6 comments total)

Boy, talk about your grey areas, too.
posted by y2karl at 6:21 PM on April 30, 2002

That's on purpose miguel, the iconatrix likes to fiddle around with css and other design tools.
posted by jonmc at 6:23 PM on April 30, 2002

iconomy used some tags to make Matt's top menu invisible. everything's there, she just hid half of it.
posted by eyeballkid at 6:25 PM on April 30, 2002

It's a CSS style that overrides the default MeFi look. sawks' started it, I copied it, I think iconomy picked it up from one of us. I changed mine back to normal because hiding a span also hides the information with the dark blue background.
posted by riffola at 7:09 PM on April 30, 2002

sure, miguel. you have to know some html, though. try this:

[div style="color: blue; background: red"] (replacing the brackets with angle brackets)

this should give your user profile a professional feel with bright-blue letters cast upon a bright-red background.
posted by moz at 7:20 PM on April 30, 2002

She uses <style type="text/css">*{background-color: #808080;}img,table,span{display: none;}</style>, sawks uses <style type="text/css">*{background-color: #000;}img,table,span{display: none;}body{margin-top: 20px;}</style>, and I used <style type="text/css">*{filter:gray;}span{display: none;}</style>. I just wanted to get rid of the nickname story question, and the colour was desaturated in IE 5.x and above.
posted by riffola at 7:20 PM on April 30, 2002