Layout's gone

[volonte]

Last night I tried to add the link to my new layout under the layouts section, and somehow all the codes for override_lj's layout dissapeared. I think I might have hit escape right before I clicked save changes, causing the text to delete. Sorry for the inconvieance, but override_lj will be down for a while. All the layouts are still here, they're just under a default

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[volonte]

Hah! I really like it! Especially the side bar, with the arrow pointing to layouts, it looks great.

Only things I can suggest are putting more entries on the page (so people can see the layouts being posted more than two at a time).

And when you get more layouts up, have a little less space inbetween the links. They look fine now, but once you have a lot of layouts on there people will have to scroll down a bunch to see them all.

Last, I see that you have the image links out of the layouts, and people have to upload them themselves. I learned that tons more people will use your layouts if you make it as easy as possible, such as letting the users copy and paste the codes, without having to mess with image links. Plus, you'll cut down about a million comments asking you questions on how to do it. You can use imageshack or something free, and you don't have to worry about anything. The most that happens is the image link might break every once in a while, but that's easy to fix and someone always comments to tell you. :)

I really like what you've got going on! And of course we can be affiliates. :P I'll add you when I get override's layout back up. Man, that is going to be a PAIN. I have to find all those entries and put in all the links over again. :( Oh well, maybe it's time for a makeover, and I can make a new layout. :D

[tasha]

haha, I just remembered I had a dream last night that I had the whole bandwidth exceeded on all my layouts. talk about a nightmare!! What you say is really true that people would use more if I left the pics in. The only thing is photobucket has the whole bandwidth issue. Don't they all? If not, I saw you said imageshack, but do they really let you use as much as you want? I have paid with photobucket right now but I was kind of scared to use it still. I guess I'll just have to read their rules more.

I feel so BAD for you having to redo all that crap! I lost my personal journal and didn't even have the energy to redo those links!! I did have more entries on the page but reduced it because when I enter rating communities, I've noticed people comment really fast on a long empty sidebar looking bad. I was planning on increasing the amount of entries, the more layouts I had in my sidebar. I'm really excited about this thing because now I have all these ideas for more layouts!! I also enjoyed creating the layout from scratch and plan on trying to do a lot more of that with my psp7. So fun! Ok, well that's all. I guess you think the bg is fine? ♥

[tasha]

another question: did you write your own tutorial on how to use the codes and stuff because that just sounds like the biggest pain in the ass. Is there a basic howto or livejournal page I can link to to give directions?

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I wrote my own instructions on how to install layouts, here. You can use it too if you'd like, just use the a direct link to it. Many people have commented saying it's the easiest tutorial for installing layouts that they've found. :)

Image shack lets you upload as many images as you want, whenever you want. It's not an account either, you just go to the page (here) and upload the image. It gives you the links to the image, and you're done. The disadvantages of this is you don't have an account where you can go see the images hosted, and sometimes the image links break. However, the pros of having the links already in the layout and not having to worry about people stealing bandwidth and all that stuff out weighs any cons. I've used image shack for ALL my layouts. To keep track of all the images, I have a folder on my computer titled layouts, and inside I have a folder for every layout I've ever made, with all the codes and pictures I used.

I guess you could probably tell by how override is set up (or how it's supposed to be set up, but currently is default) and everything, that I'm really organized on the computer lol. Image shack works for me fine, AND it wont resize your images like photobucket does. :D

I'm really not looking forward to putting all those links in again for override, but I guess this gives me a good excuse to make a new layout for it. I was getting tired of the car image, anyway. :) Good thing I don't have that many layouts up, or I would be fixing links FOREVER! :P