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Tumblr Refugees, come hither

2012-02-15T17:21:53Z

So, listen, about a year ago there was a massive shift from LJ to tumblr fandom-wise and that's great! That's fine! I'm just old school and like LJ, where things move slower and things don't get quite as heated.

The only problem with that is the last time I gave up tumblr for a bit ... well, almost nothing happens here. A few other people expressed the idea that they want to come to the LJ dark side but have no clue how to use it.

LJ is just like tumblr in the sense that you add friends and read their posts, etc etc, but it also has the added benefit of communities. Add some people to your friends list (note that some people have friends-only journals - like me! - so they'll have to add you back in order for you to see anything they have locked down). Add some communities to your friends list! If you're in the Glee fandom, might I suggest beyond_dapper? *cough* I'm throwing a friending post up there in a bit if you'd like to find friends. Also, kurt_blaine is also relevant to your interests. Have it be noted that sometimes I skip reading the comments there to preserve my sanity.

Here is a very, very detailed guide to using LJ. I found it through Google-fu, so I can't vouch for it's entire accuracy, but I looked through it and it's pretty thorough.

I made an HTML post a few months back if you want to actually post things and not just read and comment!

Finally, if you have any questions, use this post and ask? I've been on LJ since 2001, so if I don't know the answer, I can usually find someone who does.

Basically, Lucie's taking Livejournal back, bitches.

here. have some HTML help.

2011-08-24T20:07:12Z

whenidance's guide to surviving the new rich text hot mess

This will probably be the only public entry I'll ever make here. WHEE! :D

Some people are having problems posting large blocks of text in the rich text editor. Since it doesn't seem like LJ is fixing it any time soon, throw rich text out the window and use HTML only. valentina_says asked me this weekend what I did in high school extracurricular wise, and teaching myself HTML when the computer nerds couldn't is the only thing that's even remotely helpful 10 years later.

Basically, if you open an HTML tag, you have to have a corresponding HTML tag to turn it off - telling it to stop being bold or underlined or whatever.

Here's commonly used stuff. When I'm writing in word, I just hand code all of my bold, italics, underlines, etc so it's all ready to go and I don't have to go back and do it.

Bold: TEXT
Italics: TEXT
Underline: TEXT
Strike: <strike>~~TEXT~~</strike>

I know Megan uses line breaks, <hr> gives you a line break like this.

To insert a link, the code is <a href="URL">TEXT</a>, replacing the URL with the address of where you want the link to go.

To insert an image, the code is <img src="URL"> replacing the URL with the image code.

LJ cuts - <lj-cut text="Whatever you want the cut to say"> and then all of the text inside your cut followed by </lj-cut>. The code for a LJ username is <lj user="whenidance">.

If you're posting straight into the HTML from word, you don't have to worry about paragraph breaks. The HTML side keeps them. IDK what funky stuff the rich text is doing but you don't need , , or <div> codes unless you're trying to align text - if you want to center a block of text, I always use <center>TEXT</center>. To right align something, you can use the P tags - TEXT - that works with center aligning too, I'm just lazy and use the center tags since they're easier to type.

I also usually don't mess with font color and size - but the tags to do that are  and then close yourself up with . The size is just corresponding to the numbers in word - you can also use the numbers 1-6 and the HTML will size accordingly (1 is the smallest, 6 the largest). The color, you can either throw in the word of a color or a HEX code - if you don't know what a HEX code is, don't worry about it!

There's probably something like this out there, but I was too lazy to find it. My recommendation is to never look at the rich text side again and come to the HTML dark side. It's confusing at first but SO MUCH easier once you get the hang of it. Like, any time I post anything, all I have to do is copy and paste because I've done the formatting all along. If anyone has any questions on anything, I'm definitely willing to attempt to help. :)

FRIENDS ONLY

2004-04-27T21:48:47Z

just comment
& I'll most likely add you.

Yo. I totally don't post here anymore. I posted six times in 2010 and most of them were Celine Dion related. so, there's that - you are more than welcome to add me, I just don't really post here. I use it to keep up with my friends list/communities.

But, if you care - I was born in 1983, which makes me 29. I have a Masters in Educational Technology. I used to be a teacher and now I work in tech support ~~and surf the net all day~~. I just want to make art and help people. I married my college sweetheart in 2008 and we have three cats. I've been a computer geek my whole life - the first thing I bought when I got my first credit card at 16 was a domain name.

thanks for coming!
♥

other things I own and do nothing with:
twodrifters & brokeshopaholic
anotheremptysky.org

other things I own and do things with:
twitter & personal tumblr & fandom tumblr & theonewithfics

previously:
inhistouch & sparklngdiamond & theonewithicons
storyofgirl.org & partly-cloudy.org & immortelle.nu

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