This tutorial explains how customize the header in any way CSS allows to via overrides. You should use it only in the Generator layout; otherwise this code may cause undesired behavior.

If you copy and paste all the code provided below to your overrides, it will turn the font color of your entire navigation bar to red; however, you can replace the ( Read more... )

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 Generator system style. 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.

You will have to ( Read more... )

In the Generator system style, it is possible to hide the current mood and music on your Friends page by using the following override. Please note that this override hides both mood and music, and it is not possible to hide one of them individually.

FRIENDS_HEAD<=

<=FRIENDS_HEAD
If you would like to hide the current mood and music on your ( Read more... )

The following overrides allow you to change the text of comment links in the Generator system style. 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.

Each style has three sets of overrides, one for each of the three journal views. LASTN ( Read more... )

Prereq
Knowledge of CSS properties
GLOBAL_HEAD Tutorial

The code below will hide the [entries|friends|calendar] links at text at the top of the navigation table in the Generator style. The following overrides only work in the Generator style and if you try to use them for other styles then they may produce unwanted effects.

The following ( Read more... )

The code below will replace the entire set of links in the navigation banner shown at the top of your recent entries page when you are using the 'Generator' system style (the links to your userinfo page, calendar page, and the optional website link). The default links (including any specified website link) will be completely hidden and replaced ( Read more... )

Introduction and Other Styles

System Style: GENERATOR
Visual Guides:
LASTN | FRIENDS | DAY | CALENDAR

Explanations:
Page Background:
 LASTN/DAY/FRIENDS - background of entries
 CALENDAR - table cells with dates

Page Text:
 LASTN/DAY/FRIENDS - entry text, header text, navigation text
 CALENDAR - day of week text and date text

Page Link: color ( 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 Default, Punquin, Notepad, Refried Paper, Clean and Simple, Disjointed and Magazine system styles 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 ( Read more... )

For non-Sponsored+ accounts, the following override will allow you to create a border around each entry of your journal in the system's Generator and Tabular Indent styles--

GLOBAL_HEAD<=

<=GLOBAL_HEAD
The pixel value in yellow controls the width of the border and can be changed to any width you prefer. The border type in orange can be changed ( Read more... )