The following overrides allow you to have a custom phrase show up when there are no comments on an entry. These overrides are intended to be used with the Default LiveJournal, Punquin Elegant w/Sidebar, Notepad, Refried Paper, Clean and Simple, and Magazine system styles. If you use these overrides with any other style, they may cause your journal ( Read more... )

The following overrides allow you to change the text of comment links in the Default LiveJournal, Punquin Elegant w/Sidebar, Notepad, Refried Paper, Clean and Simple, and Magazine system styles. If you use these overrides with any other style, they may cause your journal to display incorrectly, such as changing the location of your comment links.
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Introduction and Other Styles

System Style: DEFAULT LIVEJOURNAL
Visual Guides:
LASTN | FRIENDS | DAY | CALENDAR

Explanations:
Page Background: the background of the main journal area

Page Text:
 LASTN/DAY - color of current view text, entry text, navigation text and the parenthises and separator of the comment
 FRIENDS - same as LASTN/DAY plus ( Read more... )

NOTE: This tutorial does not add a background image to your journal as a whole; for information on how to add a background image to your entire journal, please see FAQ 97This tutorial will describe how to add background images to certain elements of the system styles Default, Generator, Punquin Elegant with Sidebar, Tabular Indent, and to a ( Read more... )

Prerequisites:
Comment link customization
Remote loading of images
NOTE: For a similar tutorial for the Generator system style please see this post; for the Tabular Indent system style, see this post.One of the ways to make your comment links unique is to add an image in between them. You can do this by adding a small code to your comment link ( Read more... )

The following override will allow you to create a border around each entry and each set of comments links seperately within your journal. Because of how the style is written there is no way to create a border that will surround both the entry and the comments links for that entry with a single border by using overrides--

GLOBAL_HEAD<=

<= ( Read more... )

The system's Default style automatically makes the display of a subject bold and italicized. To reverse both the bold and the italics, the following override would work--

LASTN_HEAD<=

<=LASTN_HEAD
In the above override the sections relate to the text as follows ( Read more... )

To add one or more links to the system's Default style, simply piggyback the website link override. Note that these links will be added to the bottom of the page, as that is where the website link is located. There is no way to add navigation links to the top of the page through overrides.
LASTN_WEBSITE<=

http://www.example.com/yourpage.html" ( Read more... )

The following will make Default content tables thinner and move them to the right, which might be what is desired for display of a background image--
GLOBAL_HEAD<=

<=GLOBAL_HEAD

To change the width of the content tables, change the highlighed percentage to the percentage value you prefer. To move your content tables to the left replace the ( Read more... )

A livejournalist who uses a background image frequently wishes to use no background color or a semi-transparent background color for the areas that contain the text of the livejournal content. Only one or the other of the following overrides can be used at a time ( Read more... )