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[tabaqui]

In other words, no fic.
Sorry! The holidays/my stupid, stupid, will not go away illness/cough/whateverthefuck is making me a non-writing hooor.
*sigh*
Soon! Tomorrow, even, if i can get it together.

Anyway - this post is about lj and, more specifically, tags! Yay, i'm finally doing some. I'm gonna eliminate the memory thing altogether, i'm thinking. Wheeeeee! Anyway.

I'm doing tags on stuff, I want to have a little sidebar that has all my tags in. How, how, how do i do that? Is my particular 'style' or 'theme' or whatever not accomodating of those? I can't really tell!
*flails around*
My style, btw, is 'Punquin Elegant'

And if it does *not* supoprt tags, is there one that looks a lot like this one that *does*? Please, people who do their own lj customizing - halp!

Also - lj's 'inbox'. Did not know i had this. Can i turn it *off*? There are over 100 pages of crap in there. I can only delete one page at a time, i'm pretty sure. Taking. Forever.
Halp! Halp!

*luffs you all*

Tornado warnings all over tonight. It's fuckin' *January*. Jayzus.

ETA: Yes, i have a paid account.

ETA2: If anybody out there knows how to make an lj all custom and would *do this for me* i would pay you in some form or another. We'll discuss it, yeah? 'Cause...omg. *sporks lj*

Comments

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

Erm...hi. You have no idea who I am because I only heart your fics from afar and bid (sadly ineffectively) for you at the charity auctions. But! *strike up celebratory music* I can code CSS and help you fix up your journal, all custom and stuff...


Uhm...if you want me too? Unless you get a better offer?

[tabaqui]

Ooooooooh.
Yes i do so know you!
:)
*waves*

And hey.....that would be very, very cool.
I basically want *this* lj, that you can see right now. Except with tags. HEh.

But since this style doesn't support tags, i'm gonna have to switch. 'Flexible squares' seems good? That's the style that sweptawaybayou has and it's nearly the same...

I'll have to track down where i have this graphic stored...on my site somewhere. Unless i can go to some...page...in the lj customize thing and see the url for it...?

Halp!
:)

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

I personally prefer flexible squares. I think it offers the most options while still staying all clean and pretty. I can remake this LJ in Flexible Squares with a few things from you. If you want the header above, it should be somewhere in your LJ-ness. I'm not sure how you set this up, but if you did it with CSS, it'll be in the code (the link, I mean). If you did some other old school way, you can just pull the header from the page like you would any other pic and re-upload it. No big there.

What is big is your color codes. If you want the exact same color scheme, I need the codes for these specific colors. Now if you did this layout by going in and just messing around with the stylemaker thingie, you can go to the "Customize Your Theme" section, click "Styles" on the sidebar and send me the numbers you see in the little boxes in the order you see them (so I can reference which color goes where) OR if you did this but putting a CSS layout up, you can just send me a document with a copy of the code and that will have the color codes in it. I'll transfer those to a Flexible Squares code, you'll put it back up, no muss, no fuss.

Don't worry if you don't know how to install the CSS code. I'll give you a handy walk-through cheat sheet. I've gotten seriously technophobic people through installing their layouts before, so you shouldn't have a problem.

So, in summary:

URL for the header, old or new

color codes

After that, it's all plug and play!

[tabaqui]

Yay!
Flexible squares sounds good to me. I like the little sidebar/box thingy on the left.

And i can get you the hexidecimal colors, no problem. But um.
Not tonight as the tornado sirens keep going off.
:)
*toddles*

[tabaqui]

Dear gods. I feel so *stupid*. But, i cannot find the page where you plug in the hexidecimal codes. I dunno if i just can't remember what that's called or *what*. I can find the page where i choose how i want the header, centered and etc. but finding the page where you actually choose the colors is proving impossible.
Halp, halp, halp!!!

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

Okay...few steps to this one.

Home Page

Journal

Customize Journal

Customize Theme (this is in small print by your current theme)

Styles

Your colors should pop up. If they don't, or they don't match the colors that you see on the journal, then you're probably using a stylesheet. But, we'll cross that bridge if it plops itself in front of us.

[tabaqui]

OMGFINALLY!
I didn't know to click on 'styles' over there on the left - it looked like was just a way to *choose* a style! Gods, lj is *not* very intuitive.

Okie dokie, let's see....

Wow, lots of numbers. This is much easier. Go look here, i just did a screen capture instead.
http://catbones.com/scarecrow-horses/temp/codes.jpg
:)
And here's the url for the header image:
http://catbones.com/pretties/021202_birdpals.jpg

You roxor.
How does this work? You put this stuff in a file and i...upload or something? I have really no clue at all, heh.

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

I'll modify a CSS stylesheet and you'll copy paste it into the LJ customize. Don't worry: detailed instructions to follow! :)

The screenshot is great. It's just a little incomplete. Can you capture the bottom half, with the sidebar colors and such? Otherwise, I'll be sitting here color matching for hours. Which sounds fun, but it's really a one-way ticket to Bellevue. I think I may have outdated myself in that one sentence...


Thanks, hon! I'll email you the stylesheet in a few days!

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

Oh, also! You're missing the code for the text area on the screenshot. It's competely blank. I'm not comfortable guessing, since you're so attached to this particular layout. And actually, now that I think about it...There's an easier way to do this! I'm sooo slow.


Instead of doing it in CSS...why not just change your style. As long as you have the color codes (and you do), there's no reason to get all fancy. Just re-customize your journal. I'll take "Duh" for two thousand, Alex!

[tabaqui]

Um!
The text is 00000, or black...not sure if that's what you mean - i only see two places where it says 'text' and both are black...

Ah ha. Perhaps i can figure out a new style...heeeeee. I am truly hopeless with lj so much of the time, nothing seems *obvious*...lemme see... I don't see where you change styles. I see where you can change *themes*...but not styles.
*flails about*

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

Themes is what I meant. My fault for being unclear. Go to Customize Journal and in the search bar, type in flexible squares. Colors are unimportant because you're just going to change them. Once you change the theme, you'll have to reset all your custom colors, but that's not difficult since you have the screenshots. Since you don't really want something new, I think this might be the easiest way for you. CSS is really best for someone who just wants to cut/paste a new theme. You just want to change layout styles.

If this doesn't work, just drop me a line here and I'll finish up the CSS. But since you only want to switch to flexible squares, I think this shouldn't be too difficult.

[tabaqui]

I shall give it a try later today when i'm not totally zoned out and sleepy.
:)

Even if this totally fixes my problem, i still owe you big time.
*la*

[tabaqui]

Sheesh, thought i got it all in there. Here you go.
http://catbones.com/scarecrow-horses/temp/codes2.jpg

You should have *all* the boxes/colors i have, now. I don't see anything on the page that says 'sidebar' so.....not sure if it's even there or not. Perhaps since this style doesn't have customizable sidebars? Not sure. Anyway, any of the colors i already have chosen are fine to plug into the sidebar if Flexible Squares has more slots to fill.

I really appreciate you work on this - i'll owe you!
:)

[tabaqui]

*waves at you*
Hey, hello.

I know we talked about this almost two months ago, but i'm trying to change my 'theme' from punquin to flexible squares and...i can't!
No where can i find the place to change the theme. I can *customize* the theme, change the *style*....but can't find the list of themes anywhere.

I'm so frustrated i could scream.
Halp?