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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?

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I went in, tried to change the style for my blog, and found that "Zesty" wasn't offered as one of the options. Whether this is because "Zesty" was a Mike Weaver stylesheet creation, because it isn't offered to free accounts, or simply because it has since been removed as an option for new accounts, I wouldn't be in a position to know.

What I do know is that this is where I give up on Dreamwidth, for a while at the very least. Being able to choose the title atop one's page is basic functionality. I don't have time to jump through hoops, and a user shouldn't have to make the time to do so, just to do something this basic.

If the people at Dreamwidth are even a little bit smart, they'll get that. The market for blogging services is contracting. One either provides a competitive service, or one goes out of business. Try looking up some of the former livejournal clones or free blogging hosts running the Wordpress MU, and one will see just how easy bankruptcy is to find in this line of work, but we'll see what Dreamwidth chooses to do, in maybe a year or two.

k bye

**carefully steps across the sarcasm oozing across the floor**

I'm probably wasting my time as you have loudly declared you're leaving, but this may be useful to some other new person at DW.

On the Select Journal Style page, if you look at the Base Layouts, and then "show all", you'll see Zesty at the very end, as they're sorted alphabetically. It's shown with a theme called "White", which I think may be the only theme for that style.

"On the Select Journal Style page, if you look at the Base Layouts, and then "show all", you'll see Zesty at the very end"

No, you won't. A screenshot of the bottom of the screen can be seen here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/improvisational/5055431841/

But, of course, reality matters as little to you as it is likely to matter to your friends, so do continue. By the way, I'm saving downloads of this discussion page, so if some mod drops by and thinks that s/he can just delete the discussion or parts of it, and then rewrite history? Don't count on it. I've dealt with people like you folks, before.

Okay, I'll share my reality. I think you may have been looking at the Featured layouts with "show all". Here's what I get looking at Base Layouts with "show all", and there's Zesty with the White style at the very end.

http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/?layoutid=1174&show=all is the direct link.

Yes, thank you, raine.

Thank you, indeed, but too little, too late.

"carefully steps across the sarcasm oozing across the floor"

Sarcasm from your little butt kissing friends, but that's almost to be expected in a help forum. You've gotten nothing but sincerity from me.

I would really, seriously, like to see Dreamwidth do a better job than they're doing, now, and prosper in the process. But if we should find that they can't or won't respond to reasonable criticism with a higher level of maturity than that shown by the usual forgettable fanboys, straight out of central casting, then they'll deserve nothing more than the oblivion that overtakes most companies that aren't willing to make a real effort.

We are responsible, in life, for our own bad choices, when those choices are informed ones. Anybody who feels otherwise has a lot of growing up to do.

if we should find that they can't or won't respond to reasonable criticism

You call some of your comments in here 'reasonable'?

I don't. Seriously, I agree with you on the issue you came for help with, and it's part of my job within the team to fix such problems, given it's one I personally cared about enough to learn to code in order to fix, it'll, at some point, get done, in a way that suits all users to the site.

However, accusing people of lying when they're a) not and b) trying to help you isn't reasonable. If you feel it is, then maybe this isn't the sort of site you want for a bloghost, I like my discussions to be a little bit politer and try to take those that talk to me at face value instead of assumed dishonesty. It normally helps.

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