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[newt_girl]

How do you do all the nifty LJ formatting? I mean, it's CSS, right? And if one is too lazy to learn CSS...is there some easy way of doing it?

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[alexboyo]

You mean like bold and italics and those?

[newt_girl]

No, like background images and stuff...like, the actual layout and look of the whole journal.

[alexboyo]

Ahh, I'm sorry. I don't know anything about that.

[justrecycledair]

Easy way: start with a basic layout. (I can get you one.) Then go to howto; click the website entitled "Tutorials." Adjust as needed?

[arcanefruition]

It's actually pretty easy, if you wander around the customization section of the webpage. The actually coding is CSS, but they have a program for people who don't know any programming languages at all to set background colors, images, whether the background scrolls or is fixed, etc. You need to have a paid or early adopter account to do some things, but you can get a background picture real easily.

[rynmorianqueen]

I've been wondering -- what's the difference between free and early adopter?

[arcanefruition]

Early adopters are just people who started using livejournal before a certain date and therefore are allowed to use some services that were available back in the day. I don't know the details, but I bet it's in the FAQs.

[rynmorianqueen]

That's kind of what I figured. Too bad I didn't clue in to LJ's joys long ago!