More about my Dreamwidth Style Woes
Sep. 21st, 2017 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkMaybe I'm doing something wrong, but my experience is that pretty much every one of Dreamwidth's "featured styles" is now broken in terms of being able to display very large images in such a way that they are viewable within the frame. I didn't try them all, but I tried about a dozen of them and the only two that worked were Ivory Alcea (the one that guppiecat suggested) and another one by the same designer called Starflower.
Customizing journal styles on Dreamwidth is not straightforward. I sort of half-figured out how to do it once before, and ended up with a customized version of Blue by Wiring for Motion. That's the one that abruptly stopped resizing large images and became unusable. I'm curious what other people are using and if large image display is working for you. Customizing styles is so freaking cryptic on this platform that I would guess most people are using whatever was the default when they signed up. But maybe I'm just stupid and everybody else finds it easy and obvious.
After trying style after style and finding them all broken, I switched to Ivory Alcea, but really hated the layout (no sidebars, just a series of ungainly horizontal boxes with way too much useless white space around them). Then I realized that you can start with any style and then change the layout to one of 7 pre-configured sets of boxes, almost all of which I liked better than the "no sidebar" choices. That made Ivory Alcea more or less okay and took only a few minutes. What took 2 or 3 additional hours was figuring out how to tweak the various "modules," move them around on the page, and get rid of the ones I didn't want. So now I've got a format I actually like better than the one I had before. But I am not a fan of the editing procedure, to put it mildly.
However, I now know more about it than I did before. So if anyone else wants to, say, use one of the pre-configured styles but rearrange/add/delete some of the optional features, I might be able to help.
guppiecat suggested) and another one by the same designer called Starflower.Customizing journal styles on Dreamwidth is not straightforward. I sort of half-figured out how to do it once before, and ended up with a customized version of Blue by Wiring for Motion. That's the one that abruptly stopped resizing large images and became unusable. I'm curious what other people are using and if large image display is working for you. Customizing styles is so freaking cryptic on this platform that I would guess most people are using whatever was the default when they signed up. But maybe I'm just stupid and everybody else finds it easy and obvious.
After trying style after style and finding them all broken, I switched to Ivory Alcea, but really hated the layout (no sidebars, just a series of ungainly horizontal boxes with way too much useless white space around them). Then I realized that you can start with any style and then change the layout to one of 7 pre-configured sets of boxes, almost all of which I liked better than the "no sidebar" choices. That made Ivory Alcea more or less okay and took only a few minutes. What took 2 or 3 additional hours was figuring out how to tweak the various "modules," move them around on the page, and get rid of the ones I didn't want. So now I've got a format I actually like better than the one I had before. But I am not a fan of the editing procedure, to put it mildly.
However, I now know more about it than I did before. So if anyone else wants to, say, use one of the pre-configured styles but rearrange/add/delete some of the optional features, I might be able to help.
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Date: 2017-09-22 05:15 am (UTC)P.
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Date: 2017-09-22 01:36 pm (UTC)I noticed today that large images in posts are nicely sized to the column as long as the column is quite narrow, but if it is above some threshold, they jump up to be full sized and spill over past the right margin. I guess the style assumes that narrow means I'm on a mobile device and wide means desktop (although really it just means that I don't always full-screen my browser). But why only mobile devices are worthy of getting nicely-scaled images, I don't know.
Good observation
Date: 2017-09-22 05:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-22 02:15 pm (UTC).entry-content img { max-width: 100%; }
then save the CSS. It doesn't seem to work on all images, but it works on most of them, at least for me.
Custom CSS is in Settings > journal style > Customize Your Theme > Custom CSS, then drop the snippet into the big text box, just in case you couldn't find that.
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Date: 2017-09-22 05:34 pm (UTC)Thanks for including the info on where to paste the snippet of code, which was not in fact obvious to me. Especially since I found other "just edit the CSS" type suggestions online which seemed to mean "find the source code and modify it," something I am reluctant to do without understanding it.
Hey, here's another (less important but irritating) connundrum. I see that many of the styles have nicely formatted headers with the journal title in the header. Ivory Alcea (the one I'm using now) has a hideous header line:
Username | Reading in a plain font. Can you find any way to edit what appears in the header line?
Re: YES!!
Date: 2017-09-22 07:09 pm (UTC)Re: YES!!
Date: 2017-09-25 03:41 pm (UTC)Rachel's Pages
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In my journal it says
"dreampark | Reading" or "dreampark | "
There is a place on the Customize Journal page to specify Journal Title, Journal Subtitle, Reading Page Title, and Reading Page Subtitle. Some of the preconfigured styles use this information, but Ivory Alcea just ignore it and makes up its own header.
When you say "change the style for
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Date: 2017-09-22 06:50 pm (UTC)It's just going to take an awful lot of work to get everything re-uploaded as Flickr has decided to make it hard to move anything off of their platform.