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I’ve been working on a skin/theme for my favourite online bookmarker, del.icio.us. It’s based off of something the brilliant Jon Hicks did a while back (though I can’t find his original post now), and essentially preserves the layout of the site while giving it a less plain look reminiscent of Safari’s RSS view header.

The CSS file is downloadable here.

To use in Safari, use some kind of site alteration plugin like SafariStand or PithHelmet, and select “custom CSS file” for del.icio.us, then point it to the downloaded file.

To use in Firefox (untested!), try loading it in greasemonkey. I’ve hacked together a quick user.js script with the above CSS (adpated from here), but I’ve been unable to get greasemonkey working with Firefox 1.5 on my Mac, so I’m not sure if it works.

Note: The CSS links to the background image tiger stripe (again, based off of Hicks’ work) that’s hosted on my own server, which you might want to download and put on your own server in case mine goes down (or to adjust for height).

Your mileage may vary, and all that. Let me know if there’s anything worth fixing.

Tags: del.icio.us, skins, themes

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