User Friendly ‘Stylish’ Scripts

Posted on 19 February 2010 by Tina Brunner

I recently wrote about the top Stylish scripts which pertain to Google site settings. Todays, article will be about a variety of scripts for other sites that I use. Some of them have minor tweaks, others add more significant changes to the site. To learn more about Stylish, please see the article “Top 15 Stylish Google Scripts” NOTE: The thumbnail to the left is a screenshot of some of my Stylish scripts I have installed. Also, to give you an idea of where to find your scripts once they are installed. Click on it to view larger.

The following scripts change the site significantly:

CRAIGSLIST

Craigslist Comprehensive Clean-Up

This is a full-site user style that aims to pretty up all sections of Craigslist. 
* Default font is changed from the browser-default of Times New Roman to Helvetica Neue/Arial.
* Extra spacing and a greater leading has been added for better legibility.
* Front landing pages have been tidied up and is now presented in three columns. All those tiny blocks are gone.
* Perhaps the biggest difference is the Table-of-Contents and Listing pages are now only 700px wide. This setting greatly improves legibility for long blocks of text.
http://userstyles.org/styles/12729

DEVIANT ART

deviantART – Appbar – Icons Only

This script modifies deviantART’s “Appbar” (the customizable set of links next to the search box) to show only icons, allowing many more links to fit (eleven, on a 1024×768 screen without additional customizations).
http://userstyles.org/styles/15670

Website: cleaner – DeviantART V6

Updated to V6.
http://userstyles.org/styles/906

FEEDBURNER

Feedburner quick update

This script makes Feedburner clearer and more open. White background (slight sky gradient) and no borders.
http://userstyles.org/styles/14803

GROOVESHARK

Grooveshark – Remove Ad

Removes the ad on right-side of Grooveshark and expands whole site to full browser width.
http://userstyles.org/styles/16382

IMDB

IMDb – Hide left-hand side buttons & Pro link

Hides the IMDbPro link and the left-hand side buttons (“action box”) from title/name pages.
http://userstyles.org/styles/10635

IMDb [new design] [minimalistic] [no ads]

This style modifies the design creating fixed width for all pages and no advertisements.  Other modifications include: the index, movie, profile, gallery, videos, news, top movies, registration, and login.
http://userstyles.org/styles/19751

LAST.FM

Last.fm – Transparent Navigation Menus

This script makes the lastFM user navigation menus transparent.
This style improves page visibility, allowing you to see all the web content behind the transparency. The affected menus are the User Name selection menus, Home, Profile, Recommended, Library, Events, and Settings also transparent.
Menus are more opaque when hovered over with your mouse cursor.
Ability to see images and text behind the header menu (transparent) until hovered over.
Works on both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3
Delicious – Transparent Navigation Menus
http://userstyles.org/styles/11998

Last.fm Paint It Black Improved

Gives the Paint It Black style on Last.fm some nice roundups (vertical menu and background).
http://userstyles.org/styles/21584

LIFEHACKER

Perfect Gawker blogs (Lifehacker, Gizmodo, etc)

This script replaces the ad sidebar by the splash news bar originally in the header, moves the logo to the right and makes small fixes, removes the tag function in the header, and allows full view when browsing a tag.
Works with Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Deadspin, Kotaku, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Gawker
http://userstyles.org/styles/24821

MYSPACE

Myspace Scrollable Stream

This script helps save space on your home page by creating a scrollable stream.
http://userstyles.org/styles/23336

Myspace.com – Remove IM Bar

This script removes the Myspace Instant Messenger (IM) bar from the bottom of the page
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http://userstyles.org/styles/19506

USERSTYLES.ORG (FOR STYLISH)

Userstyles.org ‘Super Style’

My version of Complete Redesign of Userstyles.org – Super Style by drake.
Optimized for 1280×800 resolution & for Chrome/Chromium users using ChromeStylist.
http://userstyles.org/styles/23360

UserStyles.org – Make Obsolete Styles Disappear

This is a very simple cleanup of userstyles.org hiding the bullets and the obsolete styles.
Added the ‘Edit’ link next to obsolete styles.
http://userstyles.org/styles/2924

userstyles.org – Rating Stars for all pages

This style adds a new rating system stars to search results.
http://userstyles.org/styles/21210

userstyles.org – Show Install Count & Rating

This style adds Total and Weekly Install Counts to search results.
http://userstyles.org/styles/21187

userstyles.org banner remover

This style removes google ads and other banners from userstyles.org web site.
http://userstyles.org/styles/21985
These scripts have minor tweaks:

Bing/MSN Live Maps

This script hides the new logo and moves the search bar to the left along with a trip background adjustment.
http://userstyles.org/styles/16131

Bing: no ad + numbered results + better rendering

This script adds numbers to search results, makes the input form round, highlights the top result if it’s a special bing result (like biographies, definitions, etc.), and enlarges the result display to fit bigger screens. It attempts to remove advertisements but if you have the Firefox extension AdBlock Plus, it is done automatically.
http://userstyles.org/styles/18615

Scannably Delicious

This script repositions and recolors elements in the delicious.com design to line everything up and make it more scannable.  It lines everything up by removing the gray bar & lock icon from private links and gives them a light blue background instead. It also removes the background images on the tags and makes those links blue. In addition, it bolds the link titles.
http://userstyles.org/styles/11344

Digg AdBlock Fix – No More Gaps

When you have AdBlock enabled, it does get rid of the Ads but then there’s ugly big gaps on every page.
http://userstyles.org/styles/12597

Digg Wide

This script expands content to full screen width, uses serif font for content and other tweaks for readibility adding a taller textarea for adding comments. Also makes links inline instead of block and removes ‘Related by Keyword’ links.
http://userstyles.org/styles/13132

Reddit – Reader-Friendly

This script tweaks Reddit by increasing margins and white space for overall page, columns, and story links, replacing Verdana with Helvetica font, shifts the colors to a less harsh color palette, shrunk the right search and login column, and minimized the header along with removing the logo to save space.
http://userstyles.org/styles/23440

TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) Cleanup

This script cleans up ads including extra stuff at the top and bottom of the page. If you have the Firefox extension AdBlock Plus, this script only seems to remove the stuff at the top and bottom of the page. The ads are removed with AdBlock Plus.
http://userstyles.org/styles/1458

Yahoo! Result Number

This style adds numbers beside Yahoo! search results.
http://userstyles.org/styles/22245

Flickr – Transparent Navigation Menus (WOW)

This script adds transparency to Flickr site navigation menus, (You, Home, Organize, Contacts, Groups, and Explore) Works on both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3
http://userstyles.org/styles/11529

The scripts listed above are some of my favorite Stylish scripts. I have many more that I use, but felt that these are much more user friendly. If you use Stylish and have some scripts that you’d like to share, leave a comment and share the wealth. If you liked this article, leave a comment and don’t forget to share this information with others.

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