This is a Journal Skin Skeleton

Preparation

Since this uses less and gives you the option to compile that to css I recommend you install a less compiler. Check the official website http://lesscss.org

How to use this

1. Edit the file skin.less
2. Compile it to css
3. open journal-skeleton.html in your browser
4. Looks good? Upload the content of skin.css to DeviantArt

Less sucks, I don't want to use it

You can simply use plain css by creating a skin.css file and edit that without touching skin.less But it also removes some of the predifined classes and mixins by me as well as the css reset for your journal to remove DA cluttering.

I've found some CSS examples on DeviantArt and they don't work with your skeleton, why?

My Skeleton uses the "new" Journal skin, and a lot of examples on the site are with the old Journal Markup like the popular Hero skin.

Click here to see it in Action

Why are there head.html and footer.html?

You can add a header and footer on DeviantArt to your Skin, you'll see those 2 fields when editing a skin on DA The 2 html files are automatically included in the journal-skeleton via ajax.