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[ladyheatherlly]

I'm currently using the Weston Blue theme on a paid account. I tried to tweak the graphics and such by copying the theme specific stylesheet and hosting it on my server but it didn't seem to work. Is there a different way I'm supposed to go about this with the Expressive layouts

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[asciident]

Font size can be done with your stylesheet I believe.

For the other two, edit your user layer for the theme (I'm assuming you have one) and add the following:

set sidebar_primary = [
[ "userprofile", "Profile", "1", "1" ],
[ "links", "Links" ],
[ "archive", "Page Summary" ],
[ "syndicate", "Syndicate" ],
[ "poweredby" ],
[ "customtext", "Custom Text Title", "This is your free text space, put what you want here, cannot use HTML..." ]
];

You can change the order around, too, if you want. Save & compile.

[airemay]

I've tried to change text for a specfic part of my journal before, but I can't find what the id or class name is for it. Where can I find that information? So far, all I've been able to do is to make *all* the text smaller.

Thanks!!! :D

Also, is there a way that I can switch tags for memories on the side bar?

[asciident]

I haven't really figured out Expressive's CSS yet, as it has a lot of layering and class messiness.

Memories can't be shown because they aren't hooked into the style system at all.

[airemay]

I just realized that I can add memories to my links sidebar. I only want to link to certain categories anyways. :D

[camomiletea]

1) Pretty soon, you will have the option to remove certain sidebar stuff in the Custom Options interface. It's been coded, just not live yet.

You can also hide this stuff using CSS, if you'd like to try that:

.calendar-widget, .categories-widget { display: none; }

2) I haven't looked into that yet. I may comment back later.

3) The stylesheet makes the title font size to be 36px. You can modify it using the following (change the 36px to your preferred size):

#header-name { font-size: 36px; }

You can do 1) and 3) in the Custom CSS section of your Custom Options.

[camomiletea]

2) Oh, wait, wait -- I think I've seen some change to the expressive layout which added an option to include your own text in a sidebar. So we're going to see that too. However, if you want to include HTML in it, you'd need to use custom theme layer.

[dumdummuoi]

to elaborate on that point:

if you want to use HTML, copy the layer source and put it in your own top-level layout, then find the function print_module_customtext and just above the line close_module();, add these two lines:

"""
""";

between these two lines, you can add all your wonderful custom text/images in HTML. enjoy =)

[imaginecreate]

Thank you for the instruction! I'm at a loss though. I have copied the source for layer id 7176168 (Expressive), created a new top level layout layer (7731593), pasted in the Expressive source and found the print_module_customtext and done as advised above. Between the lines I've added some test HTML, but it doesn't appear on my page (http://marleyboy.livejournal.com).

I've created a custom theme layer (7271327) and attempted to paste the Expressive source into it, but that breaks the compiler. What am I doing wrong?