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sireesanwar in layout_lounge

Theme & Layout Change for Beginners

Dec 10, 2008 11:09

We all have to begin the learning process somewhere. Don't feel bad about it because it took me a while to learn it too. I make mostly Flexible Squares layouts so I'm going to teach you to switch from what you are currently using (say Smooth Sailing or some such) to Flexible Squares and put in a new layout!

( Get the help... )

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catcey December 11 2008, 03:22:01 UTC

Thanks for the walk through. The text doesn't match though. And since I never tag and still don't quite get that part I left it alone.

sireesanwar December 11 2008, 21:50:03 UTC

You are talking the appearance of purple text on your journal. Did you color this text when making the post? Because I'm thinking if you edited the post and highlighted the purple text and chose the Automatic color option it would change to red once saved. I learned this not too long ago in my own journal... made me very frustrated until I realized I did it to myself.

catcey December 12 2008, 04:10:23 UTC

No, I'm talking about the text beneath the header, the font is not what it is in your example.

sireesanwar December 12 2008, 18:14:41 UTC

That is weird. It looks right to me. Hmmm...

I think I discovered the problem. You don't have those fonts on your computer so you can't see them. So stupid. Okay so do you know how to put fonts into your system?

Font's Used:
http://www.dafont.com/black-jack.font
http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/11136
http://www.fontstock.net/7635/Anke-Print.html
http://www.dafont.com/king-cool-kc.font

Go to these links and download to one folder. You will have to unzip these.

Then inside the unzipped folder you will find TTF files. You was to drag and drop these into your

C:\WINDOWS\Fonts

The will automatically load and that should make you see them on your journal.

I didn't know it would do this and I'm going to see if there is coding to change that up.

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ddevotchka September 8 2009, 01:27:28 UTC

This was a great help to me, so thank you thank you so much! I don't understand the tiny icon bit but I didn't think it matters so I skipped that. But thank you!

sireesanwar September 8 2009, 18:12:21 UTC

I'm so glad it helped and you are right the tiny icons aren't very important.

scarletfbl November 7 2009, 01:11:13 UTC

Hi! I was wondering if you could help me with my tiny icon problem.

You see, I got a custom layout by refuted, and it's awesome, but I'd like to change my community tiny icon to something other than the coffee cup because I sometimes get confused over what's what when every username and comm has the same tiny icon.

Example (meishali is a user, while epic_recs is a comm):

( ... )

CSS in Text Box scarletfbl November 7 2009, 01:13:41 UTC

.ljuser img ( ... )

sireesanwar November 7 2009, 01:30:42 UTC

I can't tell you I'm really great with the tiny pics but have you tried changing the
#ljuser_row img[src="http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif"]{ width: 0; height: 0; padding: 0 16px 13px 0; background:
url(http://i37.tinypic.com/2lbp5if.jpg); }

URL to see if that is making things difficult for you.

scarletfbl November 7 2009, 01:46:19 UTC

Change the URL? Which one?

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whateversecretz November 7 2009, 06:09:24 UTC

thank you so much!
This really helped me a lot.

sireesanwar November 9 2009, 21:18:03 UTC

You are so welcome!

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sireesanwar February 8 2010, 22:14:37 UTC

You could turn off the custom entries. That way people could into your posts and see the generic set up of a livejournal post?

That is explained here.

If you still want the layout look I could make some small adjustments to the layout to make the entries a little bigger and the sidebar a little smaller but there isn't too much room for adjustment.