lj tech

[snugglekitty]

So. If I wanted to customize the words used for commenting on my journal, and stuff like that, how would I do that? Like the way some people's journals say things like, "5 oinks, Squeal!" for their comment links? More generally - is it hard to customize journal styles? I like the notebook style roozle uses, for example, but not the color that comes as standard.

Also. I know someone on my friends list asked about this recently, but I can't find it. What are the advantages to using an lj client rather than the web version? Do most of you use clients, and if so, which ones?

Comments

Update

[deravyn.livejournal.com]

Ok, I think was made an assumption that I want to make sure doesn't confuse you. On the blue menu you go to manage and then customize. From there what you do next depends on what style system you are using. There is an old style system (S1) and a new style system (S2) I have found S2 to be a lot more user friendly in making changes and options. It is under the S2 system that the path I mentioned works.

Hope that clears up the assumption I made.

Also, customizing your style in S2 is fairly easy. You pick a layout and then a theme for the layout and then you can customize the settings to your heart's content. You get many more customization option if you are a paid member (which I think you are) but you have to go into changing the actual html of your page layout.

-D

Re: Update

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

I am in S2 with the Notepad layout. But it doesn't seem to have any theme choices.

Is there some way to grab the code and revise it? I'm assuming this is HTML-based...

Re: Update

[deravyn.livejournal.com]

Since I don't have a paid account I haven't tried actually editing the html so I can't offer any pointers or advice on where to begin with that.

Sorry
-D