https://jack.dreamwidth.org/ jack - Dreamwidth Studios Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:03:08 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios jack personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/5140256/61366 https://jack.dreamwidth.org/ 100 41 https://jack.dreamwidth.org/795860.html Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:03:08 GMT https://jack.dreamwidth.org/795860.html I currently write posts in dreamwidth and have them crossposted to LiveJournal. I hope to persuade as many people as possible to do something similar from dreamwidth, or wordpress/tumblr/blogger/etc or a private blog, etc for their medium-form and long-form blogging, so there's still some community if livejournal suddenly disappears.<br /><br />I'd also like to help foster more of a sense of community on Dreamwidth by thinking of that as my primary platform rather than just an interface to livejournal.<br /><br />But I keep not doing so, and I've been asking myself why. I think it's just that my default style on dreamwidth (the default home page and the default for my journal) I don't like as much as the default style for livejournal. And that for ages I've used the candle icon as my default icon, but it doesn't actually feel like "me".<br /><br />So, can you customise a site skin? Any suggestions for good dreamwidth styles? I really want something really simple, with a white background, a splash of light blue colour, that shows user icons but otherwise looks as much like a minimalist professional site and as little like a blogging platform as possible... Any suggestions?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jack&ditemid=795860" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://jack.dreamwidth.org/795860.html livejournal tech dreamwidth public 12 https://jack.dreamwidth.org/767176.html Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:02:06 GMT https://jack.dreamwidth.org/767176.html Just today, whenever I post a comment on LJ, I realise I type the comment, hit tab, hit return, and then go "guh?" because apparently tab changes focus, not to the "post comment" button <i>after</i> the comment, but to the "B" bold button on the formatting row just above the comment.<br /><br />I'm pretty sure that didn't happen before yesterday. But only from context: I didn't notice <i>how</i> I posted a comment, but because my fingers are automatically doing "tab, return", I infer I learned that somehow so it must have been how it used to work.<br /><br />So, did that happen to everyone, or is it just that I'm still using whatever out-of-date journal style I got by default when I signed up?<br /><br />It's surprisingly annoying: I hadn't thought of that as something I care about, but it's really hard to train my fingers <i>not</i> to do something.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jack&ditemid=767176" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://jack.dreamwidth.org/767176.html livejournal public 3