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Offer of services
Everyone, I hereby offer my services to anyone that has questions about Insane Journal or wants to customize their journals over here to look all nice and purty. I'll be the first to admit that IJ doesn't have as many options as LJ - plus, the code for the whole site is a little wonky right now as Squeaky just loaded a whole new update and is working out the kinks, leading to problems like the "interests" search or the FAQ not working as they should. However, it's still quite amenable.
If you check out my IJ, you'll see that I have transferred the Smooth Sailing layout to IJ and found a way to upload a custom stylesheet. It takes some tricks, but I'm more than happy to walk you through it. Got a community you want to set up and make all pretty? I'm no good at creating graphics, but if you've got a stylesheet that you want to transfer, I can help!
Let's get this place going, people!
If you check out my IJ, you'll see that I have transferred the Smooth Sailing layout to IJ and found a way to upload a custom stylesheet. It takes some tricks, but I'm more than happy to walk you through it. Got a community you want to set up and make all pretty? I'm no good at creating graphics, but if you've got a stylesheet that you want to transfer, I can help!
Let's get this place going, people!
Hey, would it be okay if I post this to my journal? I know there are one or two people on my Flist who might be in need of assistance.
Thanks so much in advance. :)
*digs up link*
layout code It's the black and pink one.
And I'm not as worried about the header because I haven't made up my mind if I'm changing it again yet (besides which, right now it's hosted by LJ)
I hate to leave LJ but the new owners are making me very nervous!
(Let me know if you need a link to the header anyway)
Thank you so much for helping me XD
Is that how you want it to look?
Otherwise I might be able to edit it myself if you tell me how to set it up in the first place. I assume that putting the header in place is done the same way.
Wow, I hope I'm not being too difficult!
If you have a txt file of your custom stylesheet (taken from that link you gave to me), then what you need to do is:
1. In Text Edit, go to Save As. Now, instead of saving it as a txt file, you're going to save it as a CSS file.
2. Where it says Save as Type (the default is "Text Document (*.txt)," choose "All Files" from the dropdown menu.
3. In the window that says your File Name, typing .css at the end of your file's name. That will save it as a CSS file.
4. Upload it to your website and copy the file's new web address. I currently have your stylesheet uploaded to my Googlepages site, so I'll give you the link here as an example: http://stele4.googlepages.com/Annab
Okay, so your stylesheet is saved to the Internetz. Now you need a place to upload it. That means that you need to transfer the basic layout for "Flexible Squares" to your list of available IJ layouts.
The very basic guide that I used to do so is here: http://www.greatestjournal.com/users/mu
Follow the step-by-step guide there and let me know when you're done and "Flexible Squares" is an option in your IJ Customize dropdown box.
I'll have to mem this entry and come back if/when I have a paid account (at the moment I have one on LJ)
I'm sorry to have you go to all the trouble of helping me without realising I needed a paid account.
I actually waited for my paid account to run out on LJ before I exported, deleted, and bought one on IJ. So, yeah. I know what you mean.
Okay. Go here: http://www.insanejournal.com/custom
Now, see down at the bottom where it says S2? Click on that button.
:( I'm sorry. I think my options for helping you are somewhat limited. If you do find a stylesheet that you like for the unpaid layouts on IJ, I can do that for you.
A Sturdy Gesture
Bloggish
Classic
Clean and Simple
Dear Diary
Digital Multiplex
Disjointed
Generator
Haven
Magazine
Notepad
Opal
Punquin Elegant
Quite Lickable
Refried Paper
Style Contest
Tabular Indent
Unearthed
Variable Flow
However, I can walk you through transferring any of the following LJ layouts to IJ:
3 Column
Flexible Squares
Opal
Smooth Sailing
Tranquility II
And even further, if you can find me the proper CSS coding for any basic LJ layout, I can probably find a way to transfer those, too.
Now, as for stylesheets... I found my stuff on community.livejournal.com/thefulcrum. But any LJ layout community that provides custom stylesheet coding will work.
Tell you what: why don't you tell me what you want your journal to look like, include links that show examples, and I'll help you figure out how to make it happen.
As for RSS feeds: do you want to make RSS feeds FROM your IJ TO Livejournal (i.e. people on LJ see your IJ posts on their flists) or do you want to make feeds FROM someone's LJ TO your IJ flist (i.e. you see their LJ posts on your IJ flist)?
I don't have any particular layout in mind - just something simple and nice, maybe something I can make a header for. My current lj layout can be seen here, but I don't want to have the same layout on both sites. Pretty much any layout from thefulcrum is a layout I'd like to have, really.
Erm. Both, actually. Someone asked about the IJ RSS feed and I'd like to be able to just have my flist intact on IJ.
First of all, do you have a paid account on LJ? If so, then you can go here: http://www.livejournal.com/syn/. There's a place at the bottom of the screen where you can input an http address. Paste your IJ address there and that should create an RSS feed for you. Save the address that it gives you and pass that around.
Then, you will also want to set your feed on "Summary." That way if you have long posts, they won't kill the flists of your friends on LJ (LJ-cuts don't work on feeds).
1. Go here: http://www.insanejournal.com/admin/cons
2. Paste EXACTLY THIS into the box: set for alex_bl synlevel summary
3. Click execute.
NOW. RSS feeds on IJ will be a little trickier, because they, too, require you to have a paid account. If you check my profile, you'll see just under the "Friends" and communities/asylums section, I have a bunch of feeds already created and friended. They say things like "7dazelj," and "bexlessLJ." You can friend any and all of those... or, may I ask, are you planning to leave your LJ in existence? When I left, I deleted mine, so I didn't have this option, but I have heard of a way to actually create an RSS feed of your LJ flist! Transfer the whole thing, lock stock and two smoking barrels.
More on the layout tomorrow. I shall have a few options for you, but I need sleep.
At the bottom of the page it talks about that Friends page feed.
The only thing I don't know is if you would have to ALWAYS have a paid account for it to work, or if you could set it up with a paid account and then allow your account to lapse to basic and still have the feed available. That might be something that you have to ask LJ.
http://www.insanejournal.com/syn/list.b
http://stele4.insanejournal.com/
thefulcrum also has a few other instructions to follow re: sidebar and header.
If you want more options with the header (like ones that come with Flexible Squares, that does require a paid account on IJ. If you get one, though, I can totally help you import Flexible, Mixit, or any other layout sheet you can find.
http://community.livejournal.com/theful
Choose something from there and I will tell you how to upload it!
The rest of the sidebar is way down the bottom of my journal, which kinda sucks to say the least. Any idea on how to fix it?
Uh...not to worry. I figured it out. Thanks for the help!
*is an idiot*
Let me know if/when you've got a website, and I'll tell you how to proceed from there.