Comments | howto: Change the title of your journal

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Change the title of your journal

Jun 11, 2001 20:56

To change the title that is displayed in the browser window's title bar, use the following override:

GLOBAL_HEAD<=
The Journal of basic LiveJournal (©) tutorials
<=GLOBAL_HEAD

You can customize the actual wording of the title to say whatever you like.

NOTE: This override will not work for the system styles Default, Punquin Elegant with Sidebar ( Read more... )

- all styles, journal title, title

Comments 22

tyler_ddn June 20 2001, 01:33:39 UTC

i tried to change the title of my journal but it didn't work.. it may be that i'm using the punquin style or something?

i think i've done all correctly.. it was very simple.. and all the other overrides i've done are working..

??

pinkfu June 20 2001, 02:22:49 UTC

You did do it right.

There is a quirk with the punquin style that puts the %%head%% (where the GLOBAL_HEAD is inserted) UNDER the %%name%%%%name-'s%% journal tag. So, the GLOBAL_HEAD over-ride wont work on the title of the page [the browser reads the first title tag first making the over-ride irrelevant.]

You have a paid account so you can edit this manually by going to the create a style page, making a new style and either editing the existing tag or just moving the %%head%% before the <TITLE>%%name%%%%name-'s%% journal

Should have this quirk fixed, really.

tyler_ddn June 21 2001, 06:47:45 UTC

thank you.. but that seems too complicated to me :O) i tried to figure out how to do a style of my out some months ago.. but i gave up..

i'm spanish and... everything is in english.. and i can't understand mostly anything..

why not help everyone? slowmow June 29 2001, 18:58:08 UTC

So why don't the creators just change that for everyone rather than everyone having to do it themselves, provided that it seems like quite a complex process and would cost people with paid accounts time as well the money they are paying. You may be even discouraging people from being paid account members like this.

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gooner July 11 2001, 04:01:33 UTC

Hi Opi,

Any idea as to why this doesn't seem to be working here?

Re: opiummmm July 11 2001, 04:27:05 UTC

Punquin Style has the %%head%% attribute in the wrong place for anything to really work :-/

gooner July 11 2001, 05:44:58 UTC

ok cool, thanks

is there no way you know of to do what this person wants? its the generator style they're using.

Re: opiummmm July 11 2001, 06:53:33 UTC

It looks as though they are trying to change the names of the different links on the actual page, not the Title portion

Sorry about the style mixup :-/

hey Opi, please help me.... someone? anyone? please? devilmiyu December 10 2001, 23:44:30 UTC

Jillwolf gave me this link when I posted here:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=24927

The thing is, as much as I appreciate her help, I think she misunderstood what I was trying to change. I don't wanna change the title bar of my browser, I wanted to change the actual title of my journal like this:
http://www.virtue.nu/devilmiyu/journal.jpg

Could you please show me how to do that?

krissy82 December 16 2001, 13:50:37 UTC

Does this override option NOT work with free accts?
Mine is not. and it is done correctly.

ok krissy82 December 16 2001, 15:03:28 UTC

i can't read and it did change, in the tool bar. Is there anyway that I can get "Kristina's Journal" on my actual page to change?

why does the code over ride my font code? number1kid February 13 2002, 18:26:08 UTC

i used the code for this thing and it worked and all, but it somehow made my font override not work. why does it do this, and can i use this code without having it mess up my font?

Re: That's What I did and it worked chante85 July 8 2002, 00:36:13 UTC

GLOBAL_HEAD<=

ChAntAl's Thoughts and Feelings
<=GLOBAL_HEAD

Re: That's What I did and it worked chante85 July 8 2002, 00:39:32 UTC

sorry...it won't show what i did for some reason