How to get the tag count listed in the sidebar (e.g. ' tag name (1)').

This tutorial involves layers. If you haven't used layers before, see the beginners guide posts.

( Add tag counts to your sidebar tag list! Whoo! )

This tutorial tries to clear up some confusion about the different view types there are in journals, so one won't be mistaken for another. I hope this makes posting about problems with a certain view easier when we all know exactly which one we are talking about.

( The 9 different views are... )

The very first, fundamental thing to understand about LiveJournal layouts is how they work.

( What are layers? )

This code has been rendered unnecessary by this release.

QuickReply is now added to Flexible Squares entry pages by default.This tutorial explains how to add in Quickreply Boxes (like those available on uncustomized LJ entry pages). Reply forms pop up beneath the entry or the comment you want to reply to, without loading the reply page first ( Read more... )

This tutorial is for
- paid account users
- who never worked with layers or any other advanced options before
- who want to add some "paid only" tutorials to their journal while keeping their current layout.

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By naming your tags using a delimiter, for example animals:cats:tabbies or animals:cats:siamese, where the colon is the delimiter, this code allows you to display your tags as a hierarchical list.

This is an updated version of this obsolete tutorial. This new version takes advantage of new features in the layout and provides additional ( Read more... )

CSS is a pretty powerful tool to customize journal layouts. If not stated differently by the user, LJ includes a default stylesheet, which already styles the whole journal. There are many ways to adjust it:

( All Accounts )

I finally wrote that css guide I have been talking about doing a lot lately ( Read more... )

This tutorial (for paid accounts only) adds linking lines between comments, so that your eye has an easier time following branched threads. The code can also be customized to reduce the amount of indentation used to indicate comment depth, so that your long comment threads don't span so much horizontal space, or get squished. See preview image:

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The code in this tutorial will create tag clouds, which can be inserted into a box in the sidebar, or into the tag page. A tag cloud is an alphabetised list of tags where the most commonly used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized.

To do that, the tags have to be divided into different categories according to their number of ( Read more... )