Tag: livejournal

Let’s try out LJ’s new map feature

All over LiveJournal:

	Indicates account is paid
	Indicates account is Basic/Plus

On an entry:

	Link to the last entry posted before this one
	Link to add this entry to your memories
	Link to edit the entry, if you are the author
	Link to edit the entry’s tags, if you have the right
	Link to share the entry via the Share This service
	Link to track the entry
	Link to report this entry as containing adult content
	Link to the next entry posted after this one
	Link to add or change the subject-line icon of a comment

On a profile:

	Link to add this user as a friend or modify this friend’s status
	Link to join a community
	Link to leave a community
	Link to watch or modify the watch on a community
	Link to add a note to the user or community
	Link to post in your journal or a community where you are allowed to post
	Indicates that you are not allowed to post in this community
	Link to track a user or community
	Link to send a message to a user
	Link to send a vgift to a user or a community
	Indicates that the user or community has selected to not receive vgifts
	Indicates that you will encounter adult content warnings while reading this journal or community

– regular userhead
– member of
– LiveJournal staff
– OpenID account
– Community
– Syndicated feed

– OpenID from http://fanat.ru/
– member of
– promotional userhead from New Years 2010

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and many more

I spend three days drafting a post about LiveJournal and DreamWidth and then azurelunatic goes and writes it better than I could.
Saved me from having to bother finishing it though.

So, with the introduction of pingbacks LiveJournal is making another step towards becoming a fully-featured blogging platform in addition to all its other half-fulfilled possibilities.  This user, who has a lot of interesting stuff to say about LJ in general, wrote up a quick guide to pingbacks.  And over here we have someone who thinks the pingback bot is cute and likes to see it appear on her comments page.  So not only do I get to see what happens with two links in the same entry, but also what happens when you edit the entry from friends-only (which produces no pingbacks) to public (which should), and if all of that works when setting the pingback option open on a single post.

Here we go.

It’s done. Well, done enough anyways. There are still a few little niggling problems but nothing that would impede the usefulness of this layout. It’s a faithful reproduction of the old Dystopia site scheme, based off the Smooth Sailing layout by masterslacker. Both the stable and the experimental/bug-fix versions are fully open and available to the public. You can choose this layout easily by following these links: Stable, bugfix.

If you use this layout and encounter any problems let me know in a reply to this post. Please be sure to include your browser and operating system, along with the address of the page with the problem and a good description of the problem itself.

This was my first attempt at doing anything in S2 and I think it came out rather well. I learned a lot, though I’m not sure if it’ll serve me well as I don’t foresee making any more layouts in the future (Though I’m sure I’ll be tweaking/fixing this one for a long while. I’m definitely the sort to declare a project finished, then spent just as long putting on “finishing touches”). I need to thank uniquewonders for a bit of advice and help, carriep63 for a useful breakdown of the Smooth Sailing stylesheet, s2howto for some useful how-tos, and masterslacker for both writing the original layout and writing some excellent tutorials.

Features:

• Many of the features of Smooth Sailing are still here, including the guestbook entry, the fully customizable sidebar, and the welcome note.
• If the default settings are untouched you should end up with a faithful reproduction of Dystopia in your journal.
• Friends colors show up as the background and font/link color of entry headers on the friends page.
• Customizable icons for up to eight syndicated feeds. (Eight was an arbitrarily chosen number, but seemed to be not overwhelming while still allowing good use of the feature.)
• Default icons for journals, communities, Openid users, and syndicated feeds without their own icons.
• All colors fully customizable.
• Background texture behind the title.

Known problems:

• Friends colors – When using friends there are two instances where the correct color won’t be displayed. 1) If your friend has included a link inside their entry title that link will follow the color you’ve selected for entry title links (or the color your friend chose for the link, but that’s even more of an outside case). 2) If you’ve selected the header as the location for your meta information, the location link will follow the color you’ve selected for entry title links. Both of these are cause by the inaccessibility of the original link (I can’t add style=color: inside the a tag) and the inability of the CSS to access the friends color information.
• Spacing in both the entry and comment headers – Something about the inline list used to create the linkbar doesn’t want to play nicely with any of the other divs that make up the headers. The current table layout gives weird vertical spacing but the proper horizontal spacing which I thought was better than the vice versa arrangement I got with other combinations of divs, spans, lists, and breaks.
• Because the rounded corners aren’t palette images changing the background color or the navigation box background color will result in a square box. I hope to fix this in a future revision.

To-do:

• Clean up the source code a bit more. I think anyone should be able to follow along but a few places might be a bit messy.
• Try to refactor the code more. There’s a few more places where some if/else’s might save me future typing.

For those who still want to use Dystopia – go here [http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?view=schemes] if you’re using the regular account settings page or here [http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/index2.bml?cat=display&view=schemes] if you’re beta testing the new settings page.

Edit: Since I’m no longer using this layout, click here to preview it on my journal.

So I just downloaded a new Livejournal client to my computer. So far I like it much better than the one I was using before. The entry box is much bigger, all the stuff like mood, music, and subject are all in one place. The only thing I’m not so sure about is the privacy function. It doesn’t seem to have downloaded any of my friends groups. Oh well, maybe in a later release.