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[joseph_dunphy]

I've tried posting this as a support ticket, but nobody seems to be answering those, so I'll try here. I've set the title of my new blog to be "Imaginary Footlights", or at least I thought I did, but when I look at the top of the screen on my blog

http://joseph-dunphy.dreamwidth.org/

instead of seeing the title, I see "joseph-dunphy | recent entries", which to my eye looks more than a little sloppy. Obviously, your system does allow one to have the title of one's blog appear there, as it should, as one can see by looking at a few of the other user's blogs, like this one

http://mikeweaver.dreamwidth.org/

but I can't see how he did that. How does one do that?

Comments

[vass]

The title doesn't mean 'title in HTML', it means 'title in your journal style'. If you look lower down on your recent entries page, you'll see that it does say 'Imaginary Footlights' there.

[raine]

RE: support ticket: this type of query might have been assigned a lower priority than someone with problems accessing pages. Have you checked its status lately?

RE: titles: it appears that Mike Weaver has completely customized his journal style, which you can do under "Customize Styles". I suspect more than just the titles, but the Custom Text option was used here, or possibly a custom CSS.

You might want to ask over at style_system as well, as that's the place to ask style questions.

[foxfirefey]

I think I can guide you through this, if you want--it's gonna involve messing with layers, though, which is why the pending support requests are waiting for approval. (Complicated process, harder to review for our Support Admins.)

[suncat]

Very few of the styles here at DW put the custom title up on the title bar of the browser. The mikeweaver journal is one of the few (Zesty, is it?) that do. Others can be altered to do so, but as foxfirefey says, it will involve diving into the layers.

[zarhooie]

Speaking as a (volunteer) Support admin, I am sorry that your request wasn't answered in a timely manner. We are understaffed at the moment due to real life issues with many of our volunteers (including the other Support admins).

Since the system is not working as you feel it should be, please feel free to submit a Suggestion via the Suggestions Generator. This way, it's possible that future users will have less trouble doing what you're trying to do. Many users have found that their suggestions have actually made it live on the site. This method helps to improve the Dreamwidth end-user experience.

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Speaking as an admin of this comm, you are being an abusive ass to the people who are trying to help you, among whom you will find the fine members of getting_started, Dreamwidth developers and yes, some of the Support volunteers that I manage. Therefore, I am putting you in time out. You are hereby banned from commenting and posting here for the rest of forever.

Being upset is reasonable. However, your behavior and language was not and WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. Now, I'm sure the other trolls under your bridge miss you, so kindly fuck off.

[baggyeyes]

I think the problem could have been under http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options , Edit Titles for future reference. Or not.