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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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Well, if you feel that way, then go over to LiveJournal (LJ), where they'll probably sell your content to Russian spammers and seem determined to link your username with Facebook and Twitter and associated sites. Dreamwidth is a journaling site that's not very old, and there are growth pains -- one of them being that Support is run by volunteers...just as LJ's support is. Volunteer support means that some problems get dealt with more quickly, simply because those volunteers know what the answers are.

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

foxfirefey, then maybe LJ is the better way for you. I don't think you're going to find out how to make that kind of style happen in any easier fashion though (I just went looking, and I couldn't find it.)

"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."

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?

I did read your post, and all your responses after.

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.

" It's not something I've seen much of in LJ, either"

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?

I said *I* hadn't seen them. I didn't do a Google search because I was coming from the point of view of *my* experience, which is NOT the same as Googling for it. I didn't feel the need to do a site search, which I know how to do, because I didn't think it was necessary if I was bringing to you *my* experience.

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.

"Don't go attacking my integrity. You don't know me well enough."

Really? I need your permission to notice when you're lying? Doubtful.

I'm not lying. Not knowing that someone's done something similar on LJ is NOT LYING. That's simply NOT KNOWING, and does not count as DISHONESTY.

That said: I'm still trying to help you, and you're attacking me.

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