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.

Recently, I wrote about Greasemonkey user scripts. Today, I am writing about Stylish, which is another Firefox add-on for finding and using scripts to restyle your favorite websites.
To install Stylish, go to add-ons for Firefox and search for Stylish. Once the results are displayed, click the ‘Add to Firefox’ button.
Once you restart Firefox, you will see a ‘S’ box in your status bar. From this box, you can Manage styles,  Turn all styles off, Find styles for this site (which directs you to a new tab using userstyles.org, and displays styles available for the site you were on), Write new styles, and a list of the styles that are being used for the site you are on (once you install scripts for your favorite sites).
There are a couple of differences between Greasemonkey (which scripts JavaScript) and Stylish (which styles CSS). One is, once you install a userscript from Stylish, it immediately takes effect (no need to refresh your screen). Second, you manage your scripts from the same display as your Firefox extensions, plugins, and themes window. Third, you can edit your downloaded scripts from the Stylish window and preview your changes before saving (unlike Greasemonkey, which uses an external editor).
The following list is for the top Google scripts used in Stylish.

IGOOGLE SCRIPTS

iGoogle: Compact & Transparent top bar

This style removes a TON of padding and margins, allowing for more feeds and gadgets on your iGoogle homepage without scrolling. It reduces all headers and RSS links to be single-line only. It also removes the header and footer spacing. As a bonus, this style removes some of the header image, and makes the white bar at the top transparent. Because the text is white, it works best on dark themes.
http://userstyles.org/styles/8037

New iGoogle – Hide The Sidebar, etc.

This style hides the side bar and a couple other annoying things in the new iGoogle.
http://userstyles.org/styles/11373

GMAIL SCRIPTS

Gmail – Simple Header

Removes the header and footer and leaves the search box at the top so that you can focus on using the keyboard shortcut.
http://userstyles.org/styles/19999

Gmail Ads-block and Full-width

This style removes ads and widens the message area of Gmail.
http://userstyles.org/styles/22317

Minimize Labels in Gmail

This style minimizes all labels in gmail to look only like a box. If you mouseover each box, it will expand to show you the name of the label. This greatly increases the amount of space for text in your inbox, especially for emails with many tags on them. The ad sidebar is shrunk down to save space, hovering over it will give you access to the options such as print, new document, and new window.
http://userstyles.org/styles/19588

GOOGLE CALENDAR SCRIPT

Helvetical – Google Calendar User Style

A user style based on Helvetireader by Jon Hicks
Has coloured ‘Other Calendars’ and support for https:// hosted calendars.
Color coded events in the ‘Months’ section, along with RSVP coloring and line-throughs.
http://userstyles.org/styles/20669

GOOGLE DOCS SCRIPT

Google Docs – Mac OS X Leopard Theme

Transform Google Docs into a Mac OS X Leopard app. The buttons are modeled after the leopard Finder toolbar buttons, as are the toolbars. All menus and contextual (right-click) menus are themed to look like the native Mac OS X menus. This theme also styles Google Docs’ DHTML windows to match the actual window chrome from OS X, adding shadows, status bars, lighting and cursor modifications to complete the effect – the two types of windows should look identical after enabling this theme.
http://userstyles.org/styles/22994

GOOGLE MAPS SCRIPT

Google Maps – Minimal

This is a full screen view of Google Maps. To view the sidebar, move your mouse to left side to show sidebar
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http://userstyles.org/styles/3520

YOUTUBE SCRIPTS

YouTube – Clean

This style removes all the “crap” on youtube for a more user friendly experience.
http://userstyles.org/styles/23215

YouTube Cleaned Up

Gets right of the footer, copyright, google ads, big frontpage ad, side announcement box, “may not be suitable for minors” warning, and other annoyances.
http://userstyles.org/styles/12702

GOOGLE BOOKMARKS AND HISTORY SCRIPT

Google Bookmarks & History – Simple Header

Simplify Google Bookmarks and Google Web History.
http://userstyles.org/styles/20001

GOOGLE GROUPS SCRIPT

Usable Google Groups ! Ads & Footer

Great font, remove Ads and Footer
http://userstyles.org/styles/3724

GOOGLE NEWS SCRIPT

Helvetinews – Google News

Inspired by Jon Hicks’s Helvetireader (http://helvetireader.com/) and Ad Taylor’s Helvetical (http://www.iamadtaylor.com/helvetical/), this is a Google News user style in the same vein.
*note that this doesn’t restyle Google News Archive pages, because the html for the archive is oddly not marked-up with any ids or classes.
http://userstyles.org/styles/20830

GOOGLE NOTEBOOK SCRIPTS

Google Notebook

This style simplifies the Google Notebook interface to a more minimalistic one removing a lot of the unnecessary bars and other content.
http://userstyles.org/styles/17400

Google Notebook full width

The public view of the Google Notebook is 800px width. This style removes the limitation.
http://userstyles.org/styles/7383

I like many things about the add-on Stylish and think you will too. It’s easy to use and adapt to. If you use Stylish and have add-ons you’d like to share, leave a comment and share the wealth with our fellow readers. If you liked this article, please leave a comment.