FRAK: customizing is hard work!
So i've decided i want to customize my journal, because thats kinda my thing -- making things my own. im great at manipulating codes that have already been written (atleast on myspace) but LJ is presenting me with a hell of fucking challenges. I do have to say i am happy with what ive gotten so far, though -- my header of dick and logan and their cry fest (well, dick's cryfest). and i got my background color to black. after about oh... maybe 6 hours of searching for codes and trying to "learn" css, this is all i have accomplished. and i cant even get my dick/logan header centered. oh man.
on another note, i learned how to "stitch" photos together using dell image expert. it only took me like 2 hours to get 3 pictures to actually come out looking normal, but thats how i got my dick/logan header, which im proud of. only i have to add text in PAINT, bc it does this stupid looking shadow thing when i add text in dell image... and ive determined that when i buy my new laptop in the coming months, im totally buying adobe photoshop. i used it in my photo class way back when in high school, and theres just so much more that you can do in that program than you can in dell image. seriously, like whoa.
i also learned how to do lj-cuts yesterday, which im proud of. bc my entries tend to be LONG and subsequently make the page really long and i hate that. so ive imposed lj-cuts on like every single freaking entry almost that ive got to make everything nice and clean. im quite proud of that too, but it also took up like most of my friday. or my thursday. or both. the days are kind of blurring together in a mess of dick/mac fanfiction and livejournal customization. why cant this shit be as easy as it is for me on myspace? seriously.
so yeah, hopefully in the coming days, i'll be able to get my page looking more like i want it too. unfortunatly it is now 6am, and tomorrow i have to write a 5-10 page paper comparing and contrasting to urban anthropology articles. and i have done jack shit yet. and its due monday by 5pm and i have to work monday morning at 8am. customizing myspace used to take up all my time, and now customizing my livejournal is how i proceed in the art of time suckage. then on tues ive got a paper due explaining why i think jane austen's Northanger Abbey was never made into a film. too many things on my plate. too many things.
so if anyone actually reads this, well here are some useful links that ive been using:
How to do lj-cuts.
s2 expressive: How to customize them, a community.
hope that helps. bc it all certainly helped me. woohoo! off to bed now to get no sleep to get up and write papers and then get no sleep and work and write more papers, and then sleep and go to class and be really tired and hope this all ends soon, bc once this semester is over i get to go on a minimester to SCOTLAND bc i just found out that i got accepted on friday and im uber excited bc i love the british isles. and how.
on another note, i learned how to "stitch" photos together using dell image expert. it only took me like 2 hours to get 3 pictures to actually come out looking normal, but thats how i got my dick/logan header, which im proud of. only i have to add text in PAINT, bc it does this stupid looking shadow thing when i add text in dell image... and ive determined that when i buy my new laptop in the coming months, im totally buying adobe photoshop. i used it in my photo class way back when in high school, and theres just so much more that you can do in that program than you can in dell image. seriously, like whoa.
i also learned how to do lj-cuts yesterday, which im proud of. bc my entries tend to be LONG and subsequently make the page really long and i hate that. so ive imposed lj-cuts on like every single freaking entry almost that ive got to make everything nice and clean. im quite proud of that too, but it also took up like most of my friday. or my thursday. or both. the days are kind of blurring together in a mess of dick/mac fanfiction and livejournal customization. why cant this shit be as easy as it is for me on myspace? seriously.
so yeah, hopefully in the coming days, i'll be able to get my page looking more like i want it too. unfortunatly it is now 6am, and tomorrow i have to write a 5-10 page paper comparing and contrasting to urban anthropology articles. and i have done jack shit yet. and its due monday by 5pm and i have to work monday morning at 8am. customizing myspace used to take up all my time, and now customizing my livejournal is how i proceed in the art of time suckage. then on tues ive got a paper due explaining why i think jane austen's Northanger Abbey was never made into a film. too many things on my plate. too many things.
so if anyone actually reads this, well here are some useful links that ive been using:
How to do lj-cuts.
s2 expressive: How to customize them, a community.
hope that helps. bc it all certainly helped me. woohoo! off to bed now to get no sleep to get up and write papers and then get no sleep and work and write more papers, and then sleep and go to class and be really tired and hope this all ends soon, bc once this semester is over i get to go on a minimester to SCOTLAND bc i just found out that i got accepted on friday and im uber excited bc i love the british isles. and how.