InsaneJournal

⇒ What are your rules for using your layouts/icons?
⇒ Icons, what icons? I see no icons.
⇒ Can I use your layouts on Livejournal, Scribbld, Dreamwidth and so on?
⇒ Can I edit the colours/fonts/other things?
⇒ Will you get terribly cross if I don't comment?
⇒ Why don't you reply to all comments?
⇒ Do I have to friend your journal?
⇒ Will you affiliate with my icon/layout/something journal or community?

⇒ How do I credit?
⇒ How do I add a Link List?
⇒ How do I add a header image?
⇒ How do I add a background image?
⇒ How do I make the topbar a sidebar?
⇒ How do I hide the userpics on the Recent entries/Friends page?

⇒ Everything looks wrong! The colours and backgrounds in my journal are totally different than the ones I saw in the preview!
⇒ Everything looks different than in the preview picture! The fonts look all wrong.
⇒ Help! The topbar is underneath the entries!
⇒ My navigation menu (Recent entries, Archive, Friends, User info) has disappeared!
⇒ There's no user pictures/icons on the main page!
⇒ The font is too small! The font is too big!
⇒ The comments page looks weird!
⇒ The subject line is a link! How do I make it stop?

⇒ Will you make me a layout?
⇒ Can I make a request?
⇒ Will you help me edit a layout?
⇒ I know you made the layout at (x), but you haven't posted the codes! Can I use it, too?

⇒ What do you use when you make layouts?
⇒ Where did you get the small icons you use instead of the orange Squeaky balls?
⇒ Where did you get the icons in the preview journals?
⇒ Can I use the header images you have in the preview journals?


⇒ Outrage! I have an opinion! Let me tell you my opinion!
⇒ My question wasn't here.

⇒ What are your rules for using your layouts/icons?

The most important thing is that crediting is required. I've spent quite a lot of time constructing everything posted here, so I'd really appreciate it if you could just take the time out of your busy schedule to throw a link up somewhere -- while the URL to lobelia is in the stylesheet headers, it actually isn't viewable on all browsers. As for icons, just a simple keyword link will suffice, as is usual.

⇒ Icons, what icons? I see no icons.

Nothing yet, but I have a bunch of PB icons stored away on my external harddrive that I'm sure someone could use, so in the soon-ish near future I'll start posting them here as well.

⇒ Can I use your layouts on Livejournal, Scribbld, Dreamwidth and so on?

You're more than welcome to do so -- just link back to lobs here on IJ. I can't say how well they'll work on other sites, though, as there often are small differences in S2 styles from server to server and LJ has those pesky ads that can screw things up. If you want to brave it, you're more than welcome to, although it's likely I won't have the time to help you out with any edits that would need to be done.

⇒ Can I edit the colours/fonts/other things?

Yes, definitely. You're allowed to edit the layouts for your own use as much as you like, as long as you keep the stylesheet header in place and remember to credit. Using one of my layouts as a base to make one of your own which you then distribute to others is also allowed, but you still have to keep the credit in the header, as well as link here from that post of yours. A heads up would also be appreciated!

⇒ Will you get terribly cross if I don't comment?

No, I'll just walk around weeping and mutter about being forever alone.

In all seriousness, no, not at all! While I love getting comments and feedback, it's not a requirement.

⇒ Why don't you reply to all comments?

Mainly because I've got the memory of a particularly easily distracted goldfish. I read all the comments I get, but quite often I end up distracted by something shiny, forget to press reply and only remember it after an embarrassingly long time. Some other times it's just to avoid spamming with generic "thank you!" notes over and over again, though.

⇒ Do I have to friend your journal?

Only if you want to. By friending it, you get the updates straight to your friends' page as soon as I've made them, as opposed to when I remember to post them all on RP tuts (ps. if you're reading this and not a member of RP tutorials, get your lovely, shapely behind over there, stat ♥).

⇒ Will you affiliate with my icon/layout/something journal or community?

Yes, I'd love to! Just comment here.

⇒ How do I credit?

By putting up a link back here somewhere -- for instance, a layout by <lj user="lobelia"> in the profile, something in the Link List or on a credits page. I've also seen everything from layout by ~lobelia listed as interests to credits in Jabber addresses, which both work perfectly well!

⇒ How do I add a Link List?

By filling out URLs and link names on the Link List page. You can find it on the Journal Display page, just under Journal titles.

⇒ How do I add a header image?

While some of the layouts aren't designed to hold a header and may make them look a bit wonky, it's completely possible to get one in on most of them.

On Bloggish layouts, find the #banner class and without editing it, add the following somewhere beneath it:

#banner-inner {background: url(IMAGE URL HERE); height: IMAGEHEIGHTpx;}

Fill it out and you're good to go. You could also add a width: IMAGEWIDTHpx; class to regulate the header width, if you want to. As a general rule, I'd advice against it since all kinds of interesting things can happen, particularly if the banner width is larger than that of the layout itself.

For Complete Style layouts, the #header class is the way to go. Just add background: url(IMAGE URL HERE); height: IMAGEHEIGHTpx; and fill out accordingly. Again, you can define the width, if you absolutely want to.

Oh, and if you catch a #header {display:none} type situation, replace it with the following:

#header {background: url(IMAGE URL HERE); height: IMAGEHEIGHTpx;}
#header-inner {display:none;}

Then, last but not least, Quite Lickable. Just find the #title class and add the background: url(IMAGE URL HERE); height: IMAGEHEIGHTpx;. Fill out as is appropriate. I also suggest adding a #title h1 {display:none;} somewhere in the vicinity of it, if you don't want your journal title to be written all over the banner.

⇒ How do I add a background image?

Usually, just find the body class and turn the background: #HEXCODE; into background: url(IMAGE URL) #HEXCODE; or just replace whatever existing background URL with your own.

In Complete Style you'll want to do the same to the #container class, instead.

⇒ How do I make the topbar a sidebar?

By re-coding it yourself. Changing a topbar into a sidebar or vice versa is usually a lot of work and messes with the very make of the layout, so there's no easy way to change it around.

⇒ How do I hide the userpics on the Recent entries/Friends page?

Just the right one of the following bits of code somewhere in the stylesheet. The former is always for the Recent entry page and the latter the Friends page.

Bloggish:
.lj-view-recent .entry-userpic {display:none}
.lj-view-friends .entry-userpic {display:none}

Complete style:
.lj-view-recent .outer-entry-userpic, .lj-view-recent .mid-entry-userpic, .lj-view-recent .inner-entry-userpic {display:none}
.lj-view-friends .outer-entry-userpic, .lj-view-friends .mid-entry-userpic, .lj-view-friends .inner-entry-userpic {display:none}

Quite lickable:
.page_recent .entryuserpic {display:none}
.page_friends .entryuserpic {display:none}

⇒ Everything looks wrong! The colours and backgrounds in my journal are totally different than the ones I saw in the preview!

If you're using a Bloggish layout, you've forgotten to set the Theme to (None) under Look and Feel.

⇒ Everything looks different than in the preview picture! The fonts look all wrong.

Different browsers display things somewhat differently, same goes for different operating systems and resolutions. I have a Mac, with a 1280x800 resolution and I take my screenshots in Firefox -- if you have a PC, a 800x600 resolution and run with Google Chrome, it'll end up looking a bit different.

⇒ Help! The topbar is underneath the entries!

You've probably forgotten to set Layout Type to Two column (Sidebar on Left) under Journal Display. If that doesn't work, re-check the installation instructions of the specific layout.

⇒ My navigation menu (Recent entries, Archive, Friends, User info) has disappeared!

It's probably because I've disabled it, and opted to use the Link List, instead. Try rereading the layout's instructions for how to use it.

⇒ There's no user pictures/icons on the main page!

I've actually disabled them on some layouts. If you want them to show up, though, find the classes named .lj-view-recent .entry-userpic and .lj-view-recent .poster (if it's a Bloggish layout), .lj-view-recent .inner-entry-userpic or .lj-view-recent .mid-entry-userpic or .lj-view-recent .outer-entry-userpic (for Complete Style), .page_recent .entryuserpic (Quite lickable) and remove them.

⇒ The font is too small! The font is too big!

To change the size of the entry text find the .entry-body (Bloggish), .entry-text (Complete Style) or .entrycontent (Quite lickable) and change the font-size: NUMBERpt or NUMBERpx; to suit your needs!

⇒ The custom comments page looks weird!

Unfortunately I don't have the money to buy paid accounts, so I haven't had the chance to see how Quite Lickable's or Complete Style's custom comment pages are built, and can't code them.

⇒ The subject line is a link! How do I make it stop?

Complete Style automatically turns the post headers into links and as far as I can tell, there is nothing you can do about it.

⇒ Will you make me a layout?

As a general rule I won't, sorry. Time restraints and whatnot. If I happen to adore you (which, let's be completely honest, I do with most people I encounter), though, it's completely all right to ask and I might will make an exception.

⇒ Can I make a request?

Sure, that you can. I won't promise that I'll end up filling it, but if you have a burning need for a Complete Style with two wide sidebars and a lot of courier new, drop me a comment in this post or PM me the details and I'll see what I can do about it. If I end up making it, the layout'll be posted up here on lobs for general public consumption.

⇒ Will you help me edit a layout?

If we're talking small edits made to my layouts, then yes, if I have the time. If you've started transforming a layout to something else and encounter trouble, then I regrettably have to go with no.

⇒ I know you made the layout at (x), but you haven't posted the codes! Can I use it, too?

No. If I haven't posted something here yet, it means it's off limits. I may post it later or I may not, but as long as they aren't here, I'd appreciate it if you didn't yank them.

⇒ What do you use when you make layouts?

The best help for coding IJ stylesheets, I've found, are the Firefox extensions Firebug and Web developer. I also use PS CS4, ColorZilla, Screengrab! and -- for the coding itself -- Smultron.

⇒ Where did you get the small icons you use instead of the orange Squeaky balls?

Check the Resourches for a list of all the places I've gotten my tiny icons from!

⇒ Where did you get the icons in the preview journals?

Up to Pause, most of the icons used haven't been made by me (so if you've noticed a drop in their quality after that, this would be the reason). While you can find the precise who's done what from the icon keywords, they're brought to you by the lovely LJ stationed icon makers lastdance, snowchimes, stolenlights, airflix and shelightsupwell.

⇒ Can I use the header images you have in the preview journals?

Yes.

⇒ Outrage! I have an opinion! Let me tell you my opinion!

See the answer to the next question.

⇒ My question wasn't here.

Comment here or in a layout specific post with your question/opinion, or send me a PM about it and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!