Saving the style of your LJ

[grizlovich]

Title
Saving the style of your LJ

Short, concise description of the idea
It would be really great if the user could save some of his journal styles and then choose any of those which he likes.

Full description of the ideaI changed my journal style as I like and then wanted to make one more. But I don't want to loose the current skin. Because a lot of

Comments

[jai_dit]

You can already easily do this using the advanced style customization area.

[boredinsomniac]

You can? Oops. Shows how often I use it...

[jai_dit]

It's here: http://www.livejournal.com/customize/advanced/styles.bml

In fairness, this is the kind of feature that unless you do S2 editing at the code level, you're not likely to know it exists. (Our lack of S2 user-friendliness, let me show you it.) Also, in the navigation to get there, there's a lot of warnings about how if you don't know anything about advanced customization, you shouldn't be here. (This is justifiably so, as it's not difficult to accidentally delete your style.) But that makes it less likely to be stumbled across. (It's also, I believe, a paid user feature? Possibly plus, because I can never remember where the feature cutoffs are.)

I'd be in favor of exposing this functionality more clearly. At the very least, some documentation/tutorials about how to do it would be great. An ideal solution might be make it easy to save your current style and start over on a new one with the click of a button.

[camomiletea]

Yes, the advanced area is the paid user feature. However, it is also used for non-paid accounts, and separate themes are created automatically for every theme a user selects. Generally if a user switches to another theme, and then goes back to the theme they've used before, all of their colors and other settings will return. It doesn't require a paid account.

It's not very transparent in how it works, that the settings are saved, and all you need is remember the name of the theme to go back to your settings... So I can understand why it was suggested. Maybe just a better interface for it or soemthing is needed.

[charliemc]

Yes. I'd like this, personally.

And, sure, you can do this with the advanced customization thing. But I've NEVER been able to do it -- and I'm a webmaster in RL, so that should tell you how HARD using advanced customization is. The only times I've used it I've had to had tons of help from experts here. Seriously.

Just being able to save the CSS we add would be great...

[mlady_rebecca]

Sounds like it would be a useful ability to have.

[nakeisha]

It sounds like a good idea to me.

[camomiletea]

Your styles are automatically saved, all the colors and everything. All you need to do is remember the name of the theme you have selected, and you can always go back to it. As long as you don't modify it yourself without changing to a different theme first. When you are ready for a change, first change the theme then make your new settings. And remember the name of your previous theme.