New procedure for reporting problems with styles and small introduction

[aveleh]

There's a lot of things going on in styles world. We've got lots of documentation to get up and organized, lots more features to code, and bugs that need to be resolved. With open beta, it's getting harder to keep up with comments, and ensure that we reply to every one (we know there are still some that we haven't replied to, and promise that we're getting to you as soon as possible) so we're ready to start using the Support Board. If you've got a question with how to use the available options in Transmogrified, Negatives, or Core 2 Testing (which will be renamed based on the "Name our Style" votes) or if something isn't displaying correctly for you, please open a Support Request so that a volunteer can help you out, let you know that it's a known issue, or make sure that the issue gets reported into our bug-tracking software.

If you haven't already noted, there's a lot you can do with the Customize Journal Style page, and we're still working on adding more options. You can change the number of entry items that appear on your Recent Entries or Reading pages. If you find different colours easier to read, you can change your colours. If you'd rather have your module (sidebar items) rearranged or removed, you can do that too. You can change the text on some of your links so that they're customized to your personality. And if you have some URLs that you access all the time, you can add them to your "Link List" for easy reference.

One of our big priorities with the Dreamwidth styles is making sure that they're easy to use and that they're standardized so that the instructions for how to make changes is reasonably the same for each style. We are not done; there are going to be a lot more options coming, a lot more documentation coming, and a lot more pretty coming.

Comments

[gokudera]

Heeyyy, I ported a layout over from livejournal a couple of days ago using the advanced customization options, and I was trying to get in there and edit a glitch with my journal entries not showing up but I've been locked out - I can get to the developer area, but if I try to access my Layers or Styles it tells me that advanced customization is not available for my "account type".

I know I'm a free user and all, but I was able to access it just last night and now I'm.... not. Is this some new policy change we weren't warned about, or maybe a glitch?

[bond_girl]

Seconded. I came here to ask the same thing because I'm stuck there with a blank space instead of a header.

[aveleh]

Hey, hope you don't mind that I'm just copying and pasting the answer I gave to gokudera :)

I'm sorry, but there was an error where (after closed beta) the advanced customization area was available to all users instead of just paid users. This feature is not available for Free Accounts. It's not a policy change, but rather the glitch was that Free users were able to use that area in the first place. I apologize for that; I understand that it's frustrating to have access to a feature and then later have it removed.

If you would like to use the advanced customization area, you will need to buy a paid account. Alternatively, you can keep on using the layout you already made, or choose one of the supported layouts listed above, and use the wizard to edit it. Right now we're concentrating on getting documentation organized so that we can get folks to make some extra pretty designs for the basic core2 style and get more coders to work on beefing up the wizard options. So either way, you'll have lots of ways to make your journal look more like how you want.

[aveleh]

I'm sorry, but there was an error where (after closed beta) the advanced customization area was available to all users instead of just paid users. This feature is not available for Free Accounts. It's not a policy change, but rather the glitch was that Free users were able to use that area in the first place. I apologize for that; I understand that it's frustrating to have access to a feature and then later have it removed.

If you would like to use the advanced customization area, you will need to buy a paid account. Alternatively, you can keep on using the layout you already made, or choose one of the supported layouts listed above, and use the wizard to edit it. Right now we're concentrating on getting documentation organized so that we can get folks to make some extra pretty designs for the basic core2 style and get more coders to work on beefing up the wizard options. So either way, you'll have lots of ways to make your journal look more like how you want.