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mary_greenman (mary_greenman) wrote in rp_tutorials,
@ 2012-12-25 01:55:00

Can anyone point me to tutorials on making custom journals for IJ?
I'm just curious to see if it's something I can do but I can't seem to find info on it anywhere and I hesitate to get a paid account in case it turns out I can't.

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	tellthenight 2012-12-26 08:50 pm UTC (link)
	When you say 'custom journals', do you mean custom entries for things like private line plotting, or do you mean custom layouts (like Flexible Squares/Smooth Sailing from LJ)? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mary_greenman 2012-12-26 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	I mean like the flexible squares and shit. I just want to find a guide/way I can fiddle around with the codes. I already know HTML and CSS but I don't know what classes are involved with IJ. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tellthenight 2012-12-26 11:41 pm UTC (link)
	I haven't had occasion to figure out Flexible Squares or other LJ-only layouts, but this is a list of all the elements in the Bloggish pagebuild. The elements are layout-style specific, so if you make a layout for Bloggish it won't work with, say, Generator. What browser do you use? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mary_greenman 2012-12-27 12:56 am UTC (link)
	Thank you so much - thats exactly what I am looking for! I use Firefox and it's,web developer add-ons. I only use the inspect element tool, though.... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

tellthenight
2012-12-27 06:16 am UTC (link)

Sweet! I'm glad I could help. Again though, each journal style uses different elements. (For example, I completely hand-coded a layout for Smooth Sailing and put it in Bloggish just to see what went wrong and it totally broke it ;.;) But that's a great start for designing your own layouts in Bloggish, and without a paid account too.

Right on! I actually use a pre-beta build called Aurora. (It gets finnicky sometimes but by and large I have not had problems with it and it's totally compatible with the Web Developer Toolbar, LJ-Login, and a few other things that are awesome, like ColorZilla.) The inspect element tool can help you map out other more specific elements if you have trouble figuring out what they are.

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mary_greenman
2012-12-27 09:32 am UTC (link)

Yeah. I hang out at gaiaonline and make profiles (layouts for Gaia's version of journals) for commissions. I really enjoy coding and designing them but a lot of times certain codes won't work so I use the inspector tool to make sure there aren't any overlapping sections. Once I get the hang of bloggish I might get a paid account and miss around with other styles.

I heard there's a way to make changes in the code live with webd but I dunno. I feel like you could really mess up the website....

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