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Okay, this isn't really any "getting started" stuff, but I thought I could still ask about this here (or is there some other community that'd be better suited for this?)

I was very happy to find out you actually can import flexible squares journal style to dreamwidth, as my journal on LJ was built on that, and I wanted to make my DW similar. I did it, seemingly without trouble, but there are a few things that didn't quite work out:

1) people's names don't show on the reading page. They should, of course, appear under the icons, but there's nothing. It's a bit too much work to memorize everyone's icons to know who they are (well, of course I see who they are when I hover the mouse over the icon, but still. Not very handy.)

2) the subjects don't work as links to the posts

3) there's too much stuff in the header box - and, as this is DW and not LJ, I'd rather it said circle and not friends, but I simply can't figure out where to change that...

Can anyone help? I'm kinda clueless with these things... Number 1 is the only real problem here, the others don't matter that much.

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I think some of those problems will be fixed if you use the Flexible Squares source code here instead. It's been a while since I used Flexible Squares on DW, however, so I'm not sure if that code is still up-to-date.

Thank you, that did fix it!

I'm glad it worked!

Depending on what you want, you may find it easier to customise one of the native DW styles to look similar. Either way,

style_system will have more people who can help, and

dw_styles has a ton of useful guidelines and tips.

I'm just so lazy, and as I don't really understand much of these things I figured the easy way out would be to use something I already have. :) But thanks for the links!

3. What did you want to get rid of?

This bit controls some of what's pulled up into the header:
property use text_view_recent;
property use text_view_friends;
property use text_view_userinfo;
property use text_view_archive;
set text_view_archive = "Archive";
set text_view_friends = "Friends";
set text_view_recent = "Recent Entries";
set text_view_userinfo = "User Info";
set text_website_default_name = "Website";

set text_view_friends = "Friends";
- change this to "circle"

I'm not great with layouts - I can only do simple changes but had a quick look at the codes, it looks like the code linked in the comments will do subject lines - the relevant area seems to be under

# Date, time, subject

but you might be better just swapping the entire source code.

Ahhh! I see why the usernames don't show up on your friends page

In the linked in comments source code, the views it appears on are:

# Poster

if ($p.view == "read" or $p.view == "network" or $p.view == "entry" or $p.view == "reply")

But in the source code you linked, it's set to:
if ($p.view == "friends" or $p.view == "entry")

...you see? xD That's good, cause that's totally Hebrew to me (I know you say Greek in English, but if you ask me, Hebrew is much more incomprehensible than Greek).

But anyway, thanks a lot of your help! I've got pretty much everything fixed now. About 3, what I wanted to get rid of were at least network and perhaps memories, but it's not a big deal.

That's declaring what pages, it will allow the usernames to appear (so your index doesn't display your own username).
But DW has reading pages not friends.