it's not much but it's just enough to keep

[heathershaped]

+ The Nifty-ness of DW part 2232 -- look how it's growing!

+ So, I've been poking around, making friends here and there; adding communities and looking for tips. Also, I want to bring over some of the feeds I'm watching over at LJ. I'm having a lot of fun. *g* It's fascinating seeing this site coming together and I love how transparent and interactive the process is.

+ Speaking of friends, hay guys! Some of you I know from LJ, and a bunch of you I just met. I'm probably going to do some sort of proper intro post at some point before the site goes public. Good to meet you guys. ♥ I've not yet figured out how I want to do the subscription vs access thing; it's not a huge deal to me because I don't lock that many of my posts, normally, but it's still a neat feature to have.

Meanwhile I've been hoping to get my hands on some more invite codes so I can drag more folks over from LJ to share in my DW-squee.

+ I haven't been cross-posting between journals, even though I'm still posting at LJ. I plan to start crossposting everything once the site's in open beta, after I have all my icons sorted and the journal's paid for, and once I'm able to prettify my layout. Which reminds me, I should try installing a mood theme.

Comments

[florahart]

Have you yet observed the niftiness of the user tag?

<user name'"username" site="site.com"> gets you, without having to fake it up with the little Tweak or LJ dude or whatever and boldface and link and blah blah blah:

<user name="florahart"> makes florahart (this is @dreamwidth)
<user name="florahart" site="livejournal.com"> makes florahart
<user name="florahart" site="insanejournal.com"> makes florahart
<user name="florahart" site="inksome.com"> makes florahart

Also: preview button on comments.

[heathershaped]

Oh, that IS nifty and so much faster! I can't wait to try it (starting with my userpic credits, because right now the 'lj' names link back to DW accounts that don't exist. :P Wonder if DW (or dee-dub, as I've started seeing it called) will eventually have a little icon that is different from LJ's.

And I see that preview button; did they just add it?

(Also, I noticed upon importing my LJ that any username/community tag/links that I had in my entries all still link back to LJ instead of converting to DW the way IJ does. Win!

[cloverdew]

< hijacks comment thread > That is awesome! Thanks for sharing. I'm totally going to use those. Thanks for sharing :) </ hijacked comment thread>

[heathershaped]

YOUR ICON HAS A SHEEP IN IT. OH GOD.

Where did you get it?? I must have one. I'll use it on LJ too. *giggles*

*hijacks also*

[glass_icarus]

woo, thank you for this! :D i've been trying to figure out how that worked!

[phantomjam]

When it comes to prettifying your journal there's this useful tutorial over at [Bad username or site: the fulcrum @ livejournal.com] in case you hadn't seen it already. YAY for layout variety!

And I love being able to see the site progressing and all the new comms springing up and everything. It's exciting!

[heathershaped]

Thanks for that link! :D *bounces around* I love playing with this stuff.

[phantomjam]

Me too! It's all new and awesome. Some stuff in the Mixit layouts don't quite line up, but it's workable until more layouts become available/more people come over to DW to make pretty layouts etc

[cloverdew]

Hahaha. I just stumbled on that and said something to Heather, too. *laughs at thinking alike ;)*

[phantomjam]

Hee! I really love being around when everyone's here discovering all these new things at the same time. It makes me want to sort of roll madly around in the shiny new fannish glee.

[cloverdew]

If you want to add a pretty layout to Dreamwidth, check out the fulcrum's tutorial on how to bring over a Mixit layout from lj. :) Not the kind of layouts you have on lj, but definitely better than the two Dreamwidth has as defaults ;)

[cloverdew]

Here's the link: http://community.livejournal.com/thefulcrum/27856.html

[heathershaped]

Woot! Thanks. *g* And I think once the site is public more default schemes are available. Someone mentioned today that a third has just been brought online.