#theme advice

As RPers, it’s frustrating when people don’t read our rules, which is why it makes sense to make the page as accessible as possible. One thing that we can do is to make the page links viewable from the mobile browser. Lots of RPers search and interact with other blogs exclusively on mobile (or else they spend a lot of time on mobile). I personally do the latter, sending in ask memes and following on mobile, and then I write on desktop. Sometimes it’s easy to find the rules page because it’s linked, or the page url makes sense (e.g. ‘/rules’, ‘/r’, ‘/guidelines’, ‘/g’, etc)

But other times, I cannot find the page on my own at all. I have to jump through hoops in order to access it. I believe that rules should always be read regardless of how hard it is to find it, but it’s only beneficial for RPers to make the rules as easy to find as possible, including on mobile. There’s a couple ways that we can do this.

Method #1: Provide a ‘Navigation page’, which you link in your blog descriptions. Pretty easy. But even easier is...

Method #2: Make the links viewable in the browser, with the simple toggle of a switch. All your important pages viewable right at the top of the browser, with no additional effort from you!

Steps for it below the cut:

oh you didn’t bother! let me go see if i saved it and i’ll toss over the link jejdjsj

oh you aren’t bothering me!!

oh! yes i create all my themes by myself and it can take a hot minute too, so if you’re wanting to make them be prepared!! this one for instance took me like a full day because i was color matching and everything had to be the same size within other size capabilities, i had to decide what colors to use exactly before doing it, and overall it was a lot!!

i don’t really have a tutorial per se bc im a dumb and dont know how, but i can give like advice? figure out a set them first (like my current one is submission and my next one is going to be primal play i believe ). once you’ve decided ( it doesn’t have to be kink themed btw ), figure out what color you want ( red, blue yellow, etc. ) and smack yourself down in front of a color wheel ( i think that’s it?? ) and slide around until you find a desireable color!! write down the hex code bc you’ll need it later!!

next, find images from manga or so, color them how you want ( or don’t if you want black and white, my last theme was all eren and it was black and white!! loved it sm andhshjs ), make sure they’re all the same size and crop them accordingly if not. if you cant crop them without cutting off part that you want, i’d avise that you unfortunately find a new photo because i’ve personally found that i can never get it right or like it if i take some away. color them with the hex code you saved if you so choose to color them and make sure each panel matches in color strength, otherwise your theme will be off!!

As I’m totally new to making themes, does anybody have any advice or links to good tutorials?