Livejournal Things That Make You Life Easier
3 Livejournal Things I love:
1. ?style=mine:
Pretty simply. Some people have really cool layouts that they are really proud of. Sometimes those layouts can get really annoying, especially if they are to dark to for example read a fanfiction story *coughClexcough*. That's what you have ?style=mine for. You just add "?style=mine" at the end of their url in the address line and suddenly you see their journal with your layout. (I always choose most boring black on white layouts precisely because of that)
2. Semagic:
Semagic is a little program that you can download for free over here. It lets you do all your livejournal functions in it. The main advantage being that you can download a dictionary and Semagic will spell check your entries before posting (please, imagine for a moment how much worse my entries would be without that function), it also makes posting to different communities easier, as well as using tags (you can pick them for a list of tags you already used, eradicating the chance that you accidentally might create a new tag due to a spelling mistake), it pings you when a livejournal friend has their birthday and I *love* their friends handling options. For starters when you load it it gives you a notification when somebody new has added you (with lots of people I'd probably never notice otherwise) and it makes unfriending of shuffling people into different filters much easier. Basically I LOVE this thing. Makes livejournal life so much easier.
3. Fake-Cut Crossposting:
Lets say you post a fic. Lets say you post it on a bunch of communities, like your own journal, pbslash, hold_my_pocket, prisonbreak100 and prisonbreak_fic. You can either copy and past the story each time from anew and post it to each community seperatedly. *OR* you can always just post it in one place, and only post a link to that one place (for example only in your favorite community) in all the other communities, together with the header. A lot of people do it like that already, but I frequently see the other version as well. Why do I prefer it to have the fiction in one place and all other places linking to it? Well, quite simply because I'm greedy. I love reading what other people have to say about fics I love. And it's easier for me to do that if all comments are collected in one place and I don't have to troll several communities to see what other people have to say about the story. See, it's all about *MY* comfort ;D
Also? jules1013 you need to stop drooling over Kellerman and start *writing* Kellerman.
1. ?style=mine:
Pretty simply. Some people have really cool layouts that they are really proud of. Sometimes those layouts can get really annoying, especially if they are to dark to for example read a fanfiction story *coughClexcough*. That's what you have ?style=mine for. You just add "?style=mine" at the end of their url in the address line and suddenly you see their journal with your layout. (I always choose most boring black on white layouts precisely because of that)
2. Semagic:
Semagic is a little program that you can download for free over here. It lets you do all your livejournal functions in it. The main advantage being that you can download a dictionary and Semagic will spell check your entries before posting (please, imagine for a moment how much worse my entries would be without that function), it also makes posting to different communities easier, as well as using tags (you can pick them for a list of tags you already used, eradicating the chance that you accidentally might create a new tag due to a spelling mistake), it pings you when a livejournal friend has their birthday and I *love* their friends handling options. For starters when you load it it gives you a notification when somebody new has added you (with lots of people I'd probably never notice otherwise) and it makes unfriending of shuffling people into different filters much easier. Basically I LOVE this thing. Makes livejournal life so much easier.
3. Fake-Cut Crossposting:
Lets say you post a fic. Lets say you post it on a bunch of communities, like your own journal, pbslash, hold_my_pocket, prisonbreak100 and prisonbreak_fic. You can either copy and past the story each time from anew and post it to each community seperatedly. *OR* you can always just post it in one place, and only post a link to that one place (for example only in your favorite community) in all the other communities, together with the header. A lot of people do it like that already, but I frequently see the other version as well. Why do I prefer it to have the fiction in one place and all other places linking to it? Well, quite simply because I'm greedy. I love reading what other people have to say about fics I love. And it's easier for me to do that if all comments are collected in one place and I don't have to troll several communities to see what other people have to say about the story. See, it's all about *MY* comfort ;D
Also? jules1013 you need to stop drooling over Kellerman and start *writing* Kellerman.