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getting_started2010-10-05 12:23 am
joseph_dunphy) wrote in getting_started2010-10-05 12:23 am
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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?
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?
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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
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Yes, I have. Still not answered. I was, of course, exaggerating a little when I said that nobody was answering support questions, but when one finds questions from 4 weeks ago that still haven't been answered, and then notices a stack of more recent questions that have been answered ahead of one's own, it's pretty easy to see where that's going. The question is just going to scroll off the page, unanswered, and be forgotten.
"which you can do under 'Customize Styles'"
where one won't find the CSS for one's current syle, ruling out the possibility of just doing a little minor tweaking, instead forcing one to start from scratch if one wants to make as small a change as setting the title atop the screen. But, no problem, really. All I have to do is drop everything for a few weeks, and learn CSS, which I understand allows one the thrills and excitement of doing in ten pages what HTML could have done adequately in a few lines, in ages past. Or I could just simply blog somewhere else, really almost anywhere else, where selecting the title atop one's own page is as simple and easy as entering a few words into a form. The only reason for this difficulty to exist, at all, is that somebody at Dreamwidth chose to be difficult. As I do have stuff to do, I think I'll take the easier option, and maybe come back, someday, when the development staff at this place feels like being a little more reasonable. Assuming that this place hasn't gone the way of Vox, Livespaces, et al. in the time being.
Thank you for clearing that up, for me. I thought I had missed something when I was setting my blog up, other than the obvious, which is that I should be using Livejournal, instead.
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Seriously, until you brought this up, I hadn't even thought of the kind of style where you had something other than username|read in the tab portion of your browser. It's not something I've seen much of in LJ, either -- WordPress and Blogger, sure. When I go view your journal, your title and subtitle appear in the left hand side of the page, which is where I'd expect it to be.
If you're not willing to try the options suggested by
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Really? Because the second sentence in the post that begins this discussion reads
" 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."
A fact, not an opinion. Look at the top of the page. If you respond to a post without reading it, first, whose fault is that?
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You, sir, have misread what I said. I said the idea that having something other than username|read was new to me, meaning FROM THE TIME OF YOUR ORIGINAL POST.
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Then let me help you out. Know how to do a site search on Google? Let's take a look at the first four personal livejournals written in English that come up, shall we?
http://noodlesandbeef.livejournal.com/
http://isachandra.livejournal.com/
http://charles.livejournal.com/
http://ibdreamy.livejournal.com/
They all have the same format that you claim not to see on Livejournal. Integrity really isn't valued very much in this community, is it?
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Don't go attacking my integrity. You don't know me well enough. Just because I don't know something based on my personal experience doesn't mean I'm not honest.
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Really? I need your permission to notice when you're lying? Doubtful.
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That said: I'm still trying to help you, and you're attacking me.
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Again, requests aren't prioritized so some requests go unanswered because nobody can answer them and/ore reproduce the issue (remember the part where support is done by volunteers?). Compared to other sites, similar or not, requests get answered ridiculously quickly here and the number of open requests is really low. And in case you missed the part where this is done by volunteers, let me repeat it again: this is done by volunteers who go out of their way to help other people for no benefit and they're doing their best (and if you have any experience with support services you know their best is damn good).
Check the facts before denigrating the Support system and its volunteers aka your fellow users, and extrapolating from two requests (your own and the oldest one).
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