Feeling a bit out of place in this
monstrosity we call
Everything? Longing for that touch of home that you find in other
web sites? Well, long no more! Thanks to the
delectable properties of that customizable theme they call
ekw, Everything2 can be
tweaked to look similar to whatever your favorite
online oasis may be.
Although it's near impossible to emulate the look and feel of another web site in its entirety, most of the time the text and colors of a web site can be implemented in ekw. Most well-designed web sites follow the same kinds of consistencies that ekw demands (for example, all text is the same color, all headlines on sidebars/nodelets are the same color), so the transition isn't entirely brutal. Below I have some examples of popular web sites (at least, ones that I frequent) "translated" into canned ekw schemes, implementable using the ekw Scheme Cannery.
MetaFilter:
ekw_alinkcolor="#ffffff";
ekw_bgcolor="#00639b";
ekw_headingfont="Georgia,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial";
ekw_linkcolor="#cece00";
ekw_logoaccenttext="#cece00";
ekw_logobackground="#ffffff";
ekw_logoborder="#000000";
ekw_logofont="Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Tahoma,Verdana";
ekw_logofontsize="17pt";
ekw_logomaintext="#00639b";
ekw_monofontsize="10pt";
ekw_oddrowcolor="#004a73";
ekw_textcolor="#ffffff";
ekw_textfont="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif";
ekw_textfontsize="12px";
ekw_vlinkcolor="#cccc98";
(N.B. The logo font isn't nearly right; it looks to me more like Helvetica Neue Bold Condensed Oblique, although I have no idea if that's possible to encode in ekw—or if anyone even has that font.)
Kuro5hin (which looks a lot like ekw default, although I like the grayer text):
ekw_alinkcolor="#c0c0c0";
ekw_bgcolor="#ffffff";
ekw_headingfont="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica";
ekw_linkcolor="#003767";
ekw_logoaccenttext="#ffffff";
ekw_logobackground="#00639c";
ekw_logoborder="#000000";
ekw_logofont="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica,Arial";
ekw_logofontsize="50px";
ekw_logomaintext="#ffffff";
ekw_monofontsize="10pt";
ekw_oddrowcolor="#efefef";
ekw_textcolor="#222222";
ekw_textfont="Verdana,Arial,sans-serif";
ekw_textfontsize="12px";
ekw_vlinkcolor="#4185aa";
Slashdot:
ekw_alinkcolor="#000000";
ekw_bgcolor="#ffffff";
ekw_headingfont="Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica";
ekw_linkcolor="#006363";
ekw_logoaccenttext="#ffffff";
ekw_logobackground="#006363";
ekw_logoborder="#000000";
ekw_logofont="Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial";
ekw_logofontsize="17pt";
ekw_logomaintext="#ffffff";
ekw_monofontsize="10pt";
ekw_oddrowcolor="#cecece";
ekw_textcolor="#000000";
ekw_textfont="Times New Roman,Times,serif";
ekw_textfontsize="12px";
ekw_vlinkcolor="#000000";
Update August 27, 2002: TallRoo has informed me of his canned scheme which emulates the look and feel of BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/), as follows:
ekw_alinkcolor="#CC3300";
ekw_bgcolor="#FFFFFF";
ekw_headingfont="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial";
ekw_linkcolor="#333366";
ekw_logoaccenttext="#FFFFCE";
ekw_logobackground="#9C0000";
ekw_logoborder="#000000";
ekw_logofont="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial";
ekw_logofontsize="17pt";
ekw_logomaintext="#FFFFFF";
ekw_monofontsize="9pt";
ekw_oddrowcolor="#FFFFCE";
ekw_textcolor="#000000";
ekw_textfont="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif";
ekw_textfontsize="11px";
ekw_vlinkcolor="#002244";
Additions, requests, corrections, and other ideas are welcome. /msg me at will.