Change the colors

[rosebee]

There have been some posts on how to import custom styles over, but that's too complicated/technical for me.  Just changing the colors from the black/white/gray is all I wanted to do!  I finally stumbled across the method for how to do this, so I thought I'd come here and share:


First go to your LJ (or elsewhere, but these instructions are for LJ):  Click on "Journal" then "Customize Journal Style".  Click on "Style", then you should see all the various colors (and the official computer-speak letters/numbers that tell the computer exactly what color is what).

Now from your DW home page (a new tab makes it easier), Click on "Organize", then "Customize Style".  Click on "Style" on the left-side bar menu.

Now you can take whatever colors you love from your LJ layout and put them into DW!

When you click on Save Changes, the page doesn't go away or anything.  This lets you click on save changes (to apply the changes you just made), then open a new tab to view your journal or reading circle to see how it looks.

ETA: This works for the default Negatives style/theme... not sure if/how it works for other styles.

Question: Compatible Clients for Mac/Apple

[cloverdew]

I checked up on compatible clients for dreamwidth here and noted that there are a few that will work for Macs. I have typically used xJournal for livejournal updates and for archiving all my entries on my hard drive.

I would like to use a client that will allow for 'downloading history' like xJournal does and that would make crossposting to livejournal easy, as well. I wondered if any of you has tried iJournal, MarsEdit, Phoenix, or xJournal with dreamwidth and, if so, which did you like best? Were you able to archive your entries on your computer? Crosspost?

Tags and Tagging

[rebelsheart]

So, I've gone and set up a community and have noticed that I can't set who can and cannot set tags or create tags for it. Similarly, I can't get to the manage tags page for my own account. Known bug, bad link, or something else?

Edit: Ok, apparently my proxy and the tags management page don't get along. Thanks!

Userpic import question

[branchandroot]

I have a question about what might happen when importing userpics from two different sites, and hope someone has tried this already.

Let us say that I have the same pics on both sites, with the same keywords. Let us say I've imported one set already.

If I import the second set, I suspect what will happen is that the first set will get bumped into that "keyword is now a number" state and the second set will take over. Does anyone know if this is, in fact, the case?

custom mood themes

[kali]

Hello!  I couldn't find anything about this in the wiki or this comm, so I was wondering if anyone's had any success with custom mood themes, or is this a known bug?  I tried to create one, and it exists as a theme I can select, but I can't set the moods to go to any images (hosted offsite); after I hit "save changes" it... doesn't, basically.  Any ideas, or should I report a bug?

Help with Expressive/Mixit Theme

[okinay]

I followed the Tutorial: Installing Mixit Themes on Dreamwidth and have been tweaking the layout for a few days now. I just got my mood theme up and running and now I want to make a tiny adjustment to its positioning on my pages. I'd like to have the pic to the left of the currents like it is on my LJ.

Is it possible to do this?



ETA: Yes, it is! I finally went hunting and found the code that will do it.