Questions and Suggestions

[badly_knitted]

 

Here's where you can ask any questions, make suggestions for future prompts, request community affiliation or ask to pimp your community or fest.

Please be patient if you don't get an immediate reply - I'm sole owner and mod at present, and I'm taking part in a lot of other writing challenges, plus I do need to sleep occasionally ;)

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Comments

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

I just thought of something.

If multiple drabbles are put in one post, does each one need its own header (if they're not part of one story)?

[badly_knitted]

I would say so, yes, so people have some idea of what each is about. Probably, most people posting more than one in a post will be linking back from their journal and will just post a bunch of headers and links. I'll see how things go. If necessary I'll add that to the rules, though I'm hoping to avoid editing again unless I have to because of having to re-format the darn post on LJ. The gaps in the posting window get bigger and bigger just to keep a small space between rules o_O

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

It's just amazing to me that you're having such a rough time doing this; for me, it all seems so straightforward. I wonder why? To me, this site's the confusing one, with all the limits I can't work around. Like, the layout I'm using is the only one I found that I even remotely liked, and I can't do backgrounds on it, or anything. I guess it's all in what a person's used to.

Started watching the LJ version, and it was kinda scary to make that step.

...and apparently I'm wrong about being able to customize stuff over here; I've just found out how to change the background. O.o

[badly_knitted]

Oh yay! So glad you found out how to fix some of what you don't like!

I looked over at LJ but couldn't find a way to change text size or colour on my chosen theme. =(

It's annoying because the white on green for comments is hard to read, but dammit, I won't give up my cows!

I don't know why LJ is such a beast with formatting, it's just always been that way. I copy and paste from word into the posting page on windows internet explorer, and all my paragraph spacings are gone. If I use google chrome (which I'm having to now because since LJ did whatever it did yesterday, my posting page doesn't say open when I try to post), I get to keep my spacing, but the text is shrunk to unreadable size. I honestly don't know which is worse! =(

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

This is great; now I can actually enjoy my background!

That's odd. I agree; that is hard to read, especially being so small. Lemme see...just a sec...okay, apparently not all styles will allow changes in font size/color. One of my WIP communities is currently in Freshly Baked Bread, and that styleset doesn't permit it. Perhaps yours is one of the ones that doesn't.

Wow. O.o That is a serious pain in the ass. So that explains why some of your fics have different font colors and sizes, then; I'd always wondered about that. So you have a real struggle on your hands; I didn't know it could be so difficult. And you shouldn't have to give up your cows; you like them, they make you happy, so you should be able to adjust the rest of it accordingly. Maybe knowing CSS would help, but that sounds hard.

[badly_knitted]

Yeah, it's such a pain, but the cows stay! I just increase the size on my internet window and then highlight comments to read them if I have to read on my journal. But the cows stay.

I don't even know much html, so learning CSS is pretty unlikely. Ah well.

Glad you at least can make the changes you want =D

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

Yes! The cows are--in yet another sense--sacred! No one messes with the cows!

OMG. I just figured out the CSS to give my layout a header image on LJ. Now I just gotta hope it doesn't give me away...

[badly_knitted]

WOOHOO! You are so amazing with the techy stuff! I just suck at that. lol! Not that I really care, I know enough to do most of what I want to do. *grins*

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

If there hadn't been a tutorial, I'd still have no header, lol!

[badly_knitted]

Even WITH a tutorial I'd be clueless!

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

It gave the code, all prepared; all that needed to be done was to copy/paste into the CSS box, and replace the sample image URL with the URL of the desired image. I was shocked at what a cinch it was. I wouldn't have the guts to try anything else, though. Even trying it, I was still holding my breath. :)

[badly_knitted]

Well done though, I still think it's amazing, and it looks great too!

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

:D Thanks!