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

More of a query than support qu

[boji]

hence a comment. Hope you don't mind - too much.

Firstly, I currently have two dwj's (I gave myself an invite code ;-) one private/locked and one fannish. One paid, one free.

The former (free) I'm using the core2 tester for and I have to say I love it! I set up a header and background really easily, find the colour changes to be a doddle, and only lament the fact that the icon in the entry module is aligned left, with no hope of changing it to align right. Well that and the fact that I can't use the wizard to tweak fonts yet. But I adore it! Thank you!

One qu: Is my layout likely to bork as the tester moves onto more solid ground? Or will new features just code seamlessly into the wizard? (*Fingers crossed*) Also any chance that there will one day be an option to align user icon on the right of an entry post?

That said, on my fannish LJ I'm running transmogrified, because I really needed/wanted a right justified icon. It's the blog I imported from LJ and there I've adapted/tweaked the hell out of Quite Lickable. I know that isn't a style that's here yet, but I was hoping that it might be coming. Or that Core2 would enable me to tweak something damn near identical - sooner or later. For the record I don't think I'm using the drop shadow in my tweaks at all. (For a quick glance my lj is boji) So any chance?

Thank you for listening.
B.

[girlyswot]

Somewhere, it would be really helpful to make it clear which themes are customisable and which aren't. I spent quite a lot of time today wondering if custom CSS was only a paid account feature because I'd clicked on Zesty White and couldn't seem to do anything. I couldn't find anything helpful on the wiki or in the FAQ's. I know it's all new and not yet in place and that's fine, but at some point, that's information that would be really useful for people to have.

[av8rmike]

At the moment, Zesty is something of a hybrid style. It's been ported so that it's compatible with core2, but is still basically a core1-derived style. That's why its options are pretty limited. It's definitely one of the team priorities to get it completely customizable like it should be, though!

Re: More of a query than support qu

[foxfirefey]

Looking at your DW, it should be possible to move the icon over to the left using CSS, if you'd like some help on that. I did a quick test and it seems to work.

[bettina]

What I'd love is a place at the customize journal site that let's you easily add a banner to the top of your journal. That would be great for me, who hasn't a clue about CSS.

[cpv]

If you switch to Core2 testing (which can be found if you click 'All' and not just 'featured' under customized styles - you'll find that the option exits. And, you get a separate box in which to put a different background to the header if you so wish.

I love the Core2 testing wizard!

Thank you (Re: More of a query than support qu)

[boji]

I'd love coding for CSS to right justify or float a user pic. I'd be able to switch from Trasnmogrified to Core2 testing, if I could get that to work.

Found that and have accomplished the above. Though still looking for:

* The css to give a small left-hand margin to entries.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[bettina]

Oh, I didn't know that. I haven't tried anything with the Core2 testing. Hopefully this will be available for other layouts, too, eventually :-).

[aveleh]

It absolutely will be available in all of the official layouts.

[bettina]

Yay :-).

Re: More of a query than support qu

[boji]

Can't strike through my first long comment as it's been replied to BUT I have managed to switch my dwj to core 2 testing and have found the CSS override for right justified user pics. Am very happy!

That said, I do have queries about the core2 style (and hopes for future options/wizard boxes) and was wondering where the best place to comment about these might be.

Here? Elsewhere?

[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]

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]

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.

[phyncke]

Are there any free styles that allow the use of header images? There are so few free layouts. Are you going to add any to that too?

I have not seen so few choices offered to free accts on a blog really.

Thank you!

[boji]

Are there any free styles that allow the use of header images? There are so few free layouts. Are you going to add any to that too?


I've placed header and different background images uses the Core2 tester (it's under styles ALL not featured) but you can also place a header on Transmogrified using this code in the CSS module:

#container {
padding-top: Insert number of picas - px's - you need to move the blog down so you can put the header. Mine is 480px
background-image: url (your url here - keep brackets);
background-scroll: no-scroll;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: top center;
}

If you're using negatives, try the same code and if it *doesn't* work then scroll through getting_started because someone else asked for that precise thing and did get an answer, I'm sure.

[milkymoon]

I've been able to modify the css for we's journal, but the CSS was tucked away in its theme layer, so.

[mordyn4]

Did you code Zesty? :)

[av8rmike]

Oh, definitely not. The author is someone named Sam Angove, whose LJ name I don't know.

[snakeling]

I've found inconsistencies in Core2. D'you want them here or in a Support request or in Bugzilla?

[aveleh]

Check to see if they're in Bugzilla first. If you've filed other bugs, then file these ones. If you haven't, a Support request is fine :)

[snakeling]

Filed! It's really trivial, but given I just spent half an hour trying to figure out where those extra spaces came from, I thought I'd share :P

[florahart]

I don't think I think this is a support issue, really; in the last couple of days sometime something changed about the Transmogrified ...module piece, I guess? On my DW, it's red, across almost the top, and it's a navigation piece. It has my journal, mems, tags, reading list, profile, and archive.

What changed is that something seems to have altered how wide the pieces are, and now the final one wraps around on some monitors and overlaps the first one, rather than, say, making a rational second line (which would be annoying but okay) or simply widening the overall column in which the body of the page lives (preferred; I'm certain I could change this myself with CSS, but before I go tinkering, I wish to know if the change was deliberate).

I could screencap, if it would be helpful. I'm real sure it's not always done that, but now, on my home monitor (the resolution of which is crap), it overlaps.

[rosefox]

Hi there,

You might want to add some interests to this community. I was hoping to find a community for asking/answering S2 questions, so the first thing I tried was searching for "S2" as an interest. A paragraph of info on the profile page would be really helpful too. I can't tell whether this is the place for questions like "What replaced $p.view=="friends"?", or whether I should start a community for it because this one is mostly about official announcement type stuff and there don't seem to be any unofficial ones. I'd appreciate any pointers.

[rosefox]

Also, the advanced customization FAQ says it's not available to unpaid users, which of course is no longer true.

core2 bugs/wishlist

[laitaine]

This is just some stuff I've noticed while tinkering with Tabula Rasa. I can add to bugzilla or whatever, as needed, and probably fix for you too :)

1. Tag counts
Can we wrap tag counts in <span="tag-count"></span> or similar so we can change their size/colour etc. This should happen in the sidebars and the main tags page.

2. Fix bottom of entry-view page.

Currently the code is:

<div id='comments'>
<div class='inner'>
<form>
....
<div class='bottomcomment'>
<ul class="entry-management-links"> ... </ul>
<ul class="entry-interaction-links"> ... </ul>
<div id="ljqrtbottomcomment" style="display: none;"></div>
Mass action on selected comments:
<select name="mode"> ... </select>
<input type='submit' />
</form>
</div> # ends bottomcomment
</div> # ends inner
</div> # ends comments

I think that the </form> and the </div> to end bottom comment should be exchanged to make things nest correctly.

2b.

Also, can we add <div class="massaction"></div> or similar around the mass action bit so we can customise it nicely. At the moment, we can only format using .bottomcomment and the entry management/interaction links are in that div as well, which tends to screw things up a bit.


ETA: Also, the <raw-code> tag didn't work for me. Is this a known issue? <raw-code><b>hi</b></raw-code> → hi