n00by questions

[vass]

Hi. I'm really fed up with LJ, and I've decided to start using my DW as my primary journal.

Accordingly:

1. How do I change the alignment of my style modules from left to right?
2. Can I crosspost using Semagic? If not, is there another client I can crosspost with? At the moment I'm stuck with Windows XP, but I'll be moving back to Linux in a few months, when I finish saving up for my new computer.
3. How do I customise the navigation strip colour?

That's it for now. Thanks. I'm sure I'll think of more questions soon.

Comments

[foxfirefey]

1. Depends on the style you are thinking of using, whether it's available! Looks like you are using Basic Boxes right now, so I recommend going here:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/#layout

Which will let you change your basic page setup. There is a "2 Column (sidebar on right)" option. If you want to keep three columns but just change around which modules are in each one, go here:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=modules

Where you can place modules in either group one or group two.

2. People have kept notes on compatible clients here: http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Compatible_clients

3. You can customize light/dark here: http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options

Anything other than that and you'll need to customize CSS in your theme, and it'll only be that color while you're in your style! If you need more info on that, say so, and someone is bound to help.

[vass]

Thank you! My journal looks right again.

[brewsternorth]

Whee, thanks for the Compatible Clients list! I'm particularly glad to see there are Firefox addons that can work as blogging clients, and be bodged into working for DWth.

[pne]

2. Yes you can; I do it occasionally (newer versions have a "Post > to Multiple Journals" menu item, or something like that).

Alternatively, you could set your DW to auto-crosspost all entries to LJ and then just post to DW.

[azurelunatic]

I seem to recall that Semagic is compatible.
You can edit your cross-posting settings such that everything you post, no matter from where, gets cross-posted, which is convenient: http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=othersites

[justhuman]

To add to the crossposting discussion. I was a huge Semagic fan (still am technically), but switched to the Dreamwidth posting interface because the crossposter is superior to Semagic.

In Semagic you can post to many sites but if you need to edit the post later on you have to go back to each individual post. On DW, you can edit the DW post and it will edit all the other crossposts.

Dreamwidth uses all the LJ coding tags, but has come up with some new ones that are especially nifty for cross posting.

for instance (sans > <)

lj user="justhuman" shows me as justhuman
- DW because we're here on DW, but if this was crossposted to LJ it would have the LJ head and link to the LJ journal

user name="justhuman" shows as justhuman
-This shows up the same in all the crossposts always links to DW

user name="justhuman", site="livejournal.com" shows as justhuman
-Like the previous one, it shows up the same on other sites and is highly useful to referring to other people

You can only use these from the DW interface

Also, you can set up for automatic crossposting by change the settings on any individual post to post to a different selection of journals.

[popelaksmi]

I did not know that, thank you!

Crossposting

[angel_negra]

I think when you edit a crosspost though, it still turns locked posts public. Like, if I have my LJ set to flock all posts, the original crosspost shows up as that default, but if I edit it through DW's crosspost, it unlocks.

Re: Crossposting

[cesy]

Yes, this will happen if the post is set to public on DW - if you leave it on the default setting, it will use the default setting on the remote site, but if you edit it, the edit will be made on the remote site to match.