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Dreamwidth is alright, but there's something that feels really... wide and clunky about it. I hope more people will migrate to Dreamwidth so we can all be together. The first step is making your new home look pretty.
First, add the layer "Smooth Sailing" to your Dreamwidth page. This is the best tutorial I've found for adding it.
*Note: It said I reached the maximum number of layers, so I deleted "Stepping Stones"
This is what it looked like before I was allowed to make a new layer.
( Link to the text you're supposed to paste
The custom layout-ening
In this case, Paper Works by Ruthenia.
On the custom CSS page, paste the code from Ruthenia's Drop Box into the Custom Style Sheet.
She said to click "display". Don't listen to her- click "Presentation".
In the presentation tab, do change "Userinfo Position in Entries" to "Right Side"
And while you're there, check those two boxes, too.
The directions get a li-i-ittle bit... obtuse here. Go to sidebar
She said "enable any four blocks". She's talking about what you want to get displayed up here
I picked these four because reasons
And then everything else, I picked "hide"
Then, in Entry Text, I pasted this eldrich scroll- %%d%% %%mon%%, %%yyyy%%
After I hit "save", I went back to custom CCS to find that it had blanked itself, so I re-pasted the code from her page
WOW... that is not pretty. I'm going back to sidebar and changing some stuff. So the problem boxes are Profile, Page summary, and entry tags?
Yeah, but... what happens when I do... this?
That's not bad. You can probably play around with it a little bit without destroying your LJ. Leave a comment to tell me if I accidentally your dreamwidth. (No, but srsface, if it's not working for you or you need another screenshot tutoring to get the layout page right, tell me, otherwise it was all for no raisin.)
First, add the layer "Smooth Sailing" to your Dreamwidth page. This is the best tutorial I've found for adding it.
*Note: It said I reached the maximum number of layers, so I deleted "Stepping Stones"
This is what it looked like before I was allowed to make a new layer.
( Link to the text you're supposed to paste
The custom layout-ening
In this case, Paper Works by Ruthenia.
On the custom CSS page, paste the code from Ruthenia's Drop Box into the Custom Style Sheet.
She said to click "display". Don't listen to her- click "Presentation".
In the presentation tab, do change "Userinfo Position in Entries" to "Right Side"
And while you're there, check those two boxes, too.
The directions get a li-i-ittle bit... obtuse here. Go to sidebar
She said "enable any four blocks". She's talking about what you want to get displayed up here
I picked these four because reasons
And then everything else, I picked "hide"
Then, in Entry Text, I pasted this eldrich scroll- %%d%% %%mon%%, %%yyyy%%
After I hit "save", I went back to custom CCS to find that it had blanked itself, so I re-pasted the code from her page
WOW... that is not pretty. I'm going back to sidebar and changing some stuff. So the problem boxes are Profile, Page summary, and entry tags?
Yeah, but... what happens when I do... this?
That's not bad. You can probably play around with it a little bit without destroying your LJ. Leave a comment to tell me if I accidentally your dreamwidth. (No, but srsface, if it's not working for you or you need another screenshot tutoring to get the layout page right, tell me, otherwise it was all for no raisin.)
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Date: Monday, December 31st, 2012 07:41 pm (UTC)From:Just like I promised. I told you I had to wait until the time was right to leave LJ. It's just that he's so... unstable... I didn't know what he'd do if I left him around the holidays. But it's a new year, I'm SICK of his shit, and I want to be with DW now.
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Date: Monday, December 31st, 2012 08:55 pm (UTC)From:LJ is going through a midlife friggin crisis. When he was with Fitzpatrick, he was classy. Now LJ wants to copy that superficial ditz Tumblr (who is very pretty, but strictly looks; don't try to communicate with that one) and Facebook, (that absolute brain-dead want-wit whose stupidity boarders on "cognitive disorder" for reals) by putting on a pop star T-shirt, baggy pants, and a backwards trucker hat and approaching a bunch of ten year olds, trying to fit in with them. Mister LJ, why do you want to be like those kids? They're n00bs, they don't know what the hell they're doing or what they want.
Meanwhile, Mr. Dreamwidth is standing there in a very classy-old-gentleman suit, not deluding himself, accepting that he's an aged intellectual-type and is what he is. Those of us who appreciate what Mr. Dreamwidth has to offer will go to him and stick with him, whereas the superficial want-wits who flock over to Mr. LJ only because he's aping what's popular this week are going to abandon his sorry ass once the next new thing comes out. You can't possibly try to please them, Mr. LJ. Their wants change weekly. You're hurting yourself with this behavior.
Did you prettify your DW journal?
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Date: Monday, December 31st, 2012 09:09 pm (UTC)From:But I've seen the light. I don't know WHAT I was thinking about. I'm always drawn to the seldom-noticed, intellectual, complicated types anyway. The ones everyone scoffs at and says "But... but... he's such a GEEK." Because the geeks APPRECIATE what they have. They treat you WELL. They don't go "Pffft. Stop bitching about the Varnish Errors. FIIIIIINE. If you're going to be like THAT, here's a day of paid time. Would you just GET OVER IT already?"
I was blinded by false beauty. REAL beauty lies within.
DW, if you'll still have me I... I'm right here. And I'm sorry.
(I have not. I just installed a pre-made theme which I can live with for the moment.)
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Date: Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 05:16 am (UTC)From:Why aren't your posts coming up in my "reading room"?
I also can't see your latest post here.
*snifles*
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Date: Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 03:23 pm (UTC)From:And what Reading Room? Where?
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Date: Thursday, January 17th, 2013 12:40 am (UTC)From: