Skip navigation.

My 0.02$ on Opera Community development

published by Ivan Minic

Posts tagged with "About blog"

How to make few basic changes to your Opera Space

, ,

So, few people have contacted me about this, and I promissed to explain at least the basic stuff, so here it is :smile:

Where do I start?

1. Go to Preferences (http://my.opera.com/Username/account/)
2. Then go to Web page layout (http://my.opera.com/Username/account/layout.dml)
3. Then go to custom style sheet (http://my.opera.com/Username/account/usercss.dml)

Ok, I'm there... Now?

In Enter CSS: field enter some of the values I will explain below, and make sure you select Use my custom style sheet together with the current theme before clicking Save

Now, few basic codes

Header image:

In Enter CSS: field enter:
#top2 {
background: [COLOR=red]#527fbf[/COLOR] url([COLOR=green]http://www.example.com/image.jpg[/COLOR]) top right;
}

Explanation:
#527fbf is Hex value of this color. This color would be shown under image. To change it pick your color
http://www.example.com/image.jpg is Header image. You can host it eather in your files or on some free image hosting, such as Imageshack

Title text

In Enter CSS: field enter:
#top h1 {
font-family: [COLOR=red]Georgia[/COLOR];
font-weight: [COLOR=deeppink]normal[/COLOR];
font-size: [COLOR=green]36px[/COLOR];
color: [COLOR=darkblue]#D8ECF5;[/COLOR]
}

Explanation:
Georgia - Font face is font type that would be used. For example here is used Georgia, and on my Opera Mini blog is Impact. My suggestions are to use some of these fonts since they are the ones that everyone has installed: Impact, Verdana, Trebuchet Ms, Comic Sans MS, Garamond, GothicE, GothicG, GothicI. You can see them in action here
normal - There you can select basic weight of the font which is "Normal" , "Bold" or "Italic.
36px - Font size in pixels, I don't think you need more info on this.
#D8ECF5; is Hex value of this color. This color would be the color of title text. To change it pick your color

Subititle

In Enter CSS: field enter:
#subtitle {
font-family: [COLOR=red]Georgia[/COLOR];
color: [COLOR=darkblue]#D8ECF5[/COLOR];
font-size: [COLOR=green]14px;[/COLOR];
}

Explanation:
Georgia - Font face is font type that would be used. For example here is used Georgia, and on my Opera Mini blog is Impact. My suggestions are to use some of these fonts since they are the ones that everyone has installed: Impact, Verdana, Trebuchet Ms, Comic Sans MS, Garamond, GothicE, GothicG, GothicI. You can see them in action here
14px; - Font size in pixels, I don't think you need more info on this.
#D8ECF5 is Hex value of this color. This color would be the color of title text. To change it pick your color

Blog post's titles

In Enter CSS: field enter:
.title, .title a:link, .title a:visited, .title a:active {
font-family: [COLOR=red]Georgia[/COLOR];
font-weight: [COLOR=deeppink]normal[/COLOR];
font-size: [COLOR=green]24px[/COLOR];
color: [COLOR=darkblue]#235E98[/COLOR];
}

Explanation:
Georgia - Font face is font type that would be used. For example here is used Georgia, and on my Opera Mini blog is Impact. My suggestions are to use some of these fonts since they are the ones that everyone has installed: Impact, Verdana, Trebuchet Ms, Comic Sans MS, Garamond, GothicE, GothicG, GothicI. You can see them in action here
normal - There you can select basic weight of the font which is "Normal" , "Bold" or "Italic.
24px - Font size in pixels, I don't think you need more info on this.
#235E98 is Hex value of this color. This color would be the color of title text. To change it pick your color

Want more?

Ok, these stuff I mentioned are basics, stuff most people wants and asks for. You, of course, can change much more stuff, and if you would like to see what that exactly means view and read Additional information on your custom style sheet page (http://my.opera.com/Username/account/usercss.dml).

Just to make one thing clear...

, ,


I hope you don't mind few minutes, but I would just like to clear things up..

I'm a guy from a country that has ~ 150-200k internet users in total, from which probably 10% know more than to click "send and receve" in their mail client, and in this kind of envoirment I have managed to create internet forum (and we all know how forums are inpopular with "normal people") that has 65k users and 15-20k unique visits daily, without spending a penny on commercials (I probably would if I had any... here average salary is ~200$ so even paying for a dedicated server is a pain in the.... )
So... I'm not a person you should ask about making a milions, but I do know a thing or two about promotion, especially the good old guerilla way :smile:

Just few small fast facts... I managed to persuade people to change from their "native" browser to Opera in quite a scale... I've been using it since 7.0 as my only browser, but have tried it before... Just to compare... Stats from last year on my forum show that 1.2% of users used Opera as their browser, today that number is about 8-11% from month to month :smile: I'm proud :smile: Though Firefox is still in front with ~15% :frown:
Enough about me ...

I love Opera and use it every day. I personaly find it the second most useful thing there is (after Google and before ICQ which I use since 98).
The point of this qroup and this blog is not to say that Opera Browser or Opera Community is bad, it is just my way of expressing ideas how to make it better.. If you like them, I'm glad, if not, feel free to post better idea..


I'm a guy that spends approx 15-18h online daily, so my wishes and suggestions might not be suggestion that "average Joe" would make, but if anyone actually find this usefull among Opera Developers, feel free do implement or contact me to get detailed info about my thoughts...

I'm writing this because in past I had few misunderstandings with people because of my me-tarzan-you-jane english.

Ivan Minic
Owner of Burek Forum
November 2009
S M T W T F S
October 2009December 2009
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30