Customization

[liadethornegge]

Once upon a time I had complete control over my LJ layout, and I knew how things worked and where to find the things to tweak.

I've not done anything with it for at least five years though, so now when I try to tweak I'm feeling lost again. I added a header to my page - does that work?

Also, is there any way to fix the display of my accountname?

Also, the easy with which you can post images on facebook was always a strength of the platform. I considered posting yesterday with a photo of the bowl of popcorn (which was a requirement), but I remembered that this platform didn't really incorporate photos, which is why I had to host my photos elsewhere. A quick scroll back through my posts shows me that most of my inserted images are broken as well.

*biggest sigh*

Comments

[alays]

I never used LJ or any other similar platform. I have never written in HTML. It’s quite a learning curve for me.

[liadethornegge]

I can imagine.

The addition of the wysiwyg editor makes a lot of the work easier. You don't have to use html to just post to dreamwidth. I'm more talking about all the surrounding stuff on the page, like tags, and profile and background and styling... I probably spend way too much brain-time on it.

[alays]

You see, I had to google wysiwyg editor.

I haven’t even dared to play around with the appearance of my page.

[life_of_glamour]

Yeah, I used to put photos on LJ all the time in my posts, but I never do with DW because it's such a hassle and too much work. I miss my image-heavy posts here.

[liadethornegge]

Yeah. It does change the focus to the text - which might not be so bad for the level of discourse. But I've been conditioned by fb to always expect a photo. Maybe it's good to get a "detox"? ;)

[kareina]

Your header looks great, but I would never have seen it if you hadn't asked about it. I have never bothered to tweak the layout of my own page because usually when I am here I am just reading my "reading" page to catch up on what people have to say, or taking a moment to post something.

One of the things I have never liked about FB was that there are so many photos, when what I want is to read. Which makes it ironic that I am now also using Instagram and cross posting photos to FB.

[liadethornegge]

Thanks. The header is just taken from my webpage. If I -really- cared I would make a new one specially for this. I'll see, most likely leave it or remove it entirely.

I do feel some pressure to pick the correct icon for each post - I had the maximum transferred over from LJ, so I have lots! Strange, and interesting, what kind of things one focuses on in new contexts.

[evaelisabeth]

To be honest I find that a feature rather than a bug. I've got plenty of photos on Instagram and FB, here I want to concentrate on the words.