Help Desk Take #2

[sireesanwar.livejournal.com]

This community is to help me and others find ways to make their journals look how we want them too.

I wouldn't say I'm an expert at messing with layouts though I have figured out a lot about Flexible Squares. If you have a question please feel free to ask me by commenting below.

Couple Rules:

1. And example of your problem or what you want done to your journal.
2. Sometimes it can take me a little while to find the information asked for, so please be patient.
3. I don't do slash-y type things (ie headers). I can still provide you with a layout but then header would have to come from somewhere else.
4. I'm not currently taking requests for requests but I'm more than willing to help you figure out problems with coding.

LJ is dropping the ball a little and so community moderators aren't getting their comments. So if you don't hear back from me in a few days head over HERE to let me know if you need any help.

Comments

[carbonel]

Hi, there. I found you by Googling, so I hope this is the right place.

I have a permanent paid account, and for the last few years I've been using Autumn, based on Expressive by Taylor Savvy. I don't love it, but I needed to switch to S2 in a hurry because I wanted to be able to uncompress comments, and it's been readable, if a bit smaller font than I'd consider ideal.

A couple of days ago, the font changed. It's still san-serif (again, not ideal for me), but it's smaller and looks almost dot-matrixy, like the old AppleWriter fonts. No one else seems to have had this problem, including someone who's using the same layout I am.

So the simple question is, do you know what might have caused the font change, and how can I fix it? If the designer changed his or her original style, would it propagate through to what I'm using?

The more complex question is, how hard is it to tweak a layout? What I'd really like is the same layout with a) Georgia font at 10 pt and b) a slightly narrower column because I keep my browser at about 2/3 of the screen width and the basic layout is a bit too wide.

(Also, LJ suddenly stopped sending me notifications of comments as of a couple of weeks ago, but I have no idea who I can ask about fixing that. Just sayin'.)

Any help gratefully appreciated.

[sireesanwar.livejournal.com]

I'm very willing to help but it might take me a few days as I'm dealing with my kitty who is really sick and I might lose her. I'll be back though.

[carbonel]

Thanks so much for responding. I hope your kitty improves -- I have two of my own that drive me nuts but are part of the family.

[sireesanwar.livejournal.com]

No problem. Unfortunately my kitty died last night. Yeah, my baby drove me crazy sometimes too but now I really miss it.

Anyways, hopefully later today I'll tinker around and figure out exactly how to help you. It will keep my mind off things.

[sireesanwar.livejournal.com]

The size thing is a problem because I don't know enough about it to really change everything. It is a whole different coding then I'm used too.

As for text. That I can help you with. Adding the below coding to the box HERE (http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml?group=customcss) should do the trick:
body{ font-family: Georgia, arial; font-size: 10px; } blockquote { font-family: Georgia, arial; font-size: 10px; } #content { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; font-family: Georgia, arial; font-size: 10px; } #maincontent { float: right; font-family: Georgia, arial; font-size: 10px; } .subcontent { min-height: 200px; font-family: Georgia, arial; font-size: 10px; } #header { font-family: Georgia, arial; font-size: 10px; } #sidebar { float: left; font-family: Georgia, arial; font-size: 10px; } #footer { font-family: Georgia, arial; font-size: 10px; }

As for notifications. This has happened to a lot of us. LJ messed with things and turned some stuff off. Go to Manage Settings (http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?cat=notifications) and make sure all your notifications are turned on.

I'm sorry I couldn't help you with the width but I could do it very easily in Flexible Squares. If you knew about how wide you wanted the journal we could come up with something from one of the layouts I've created here.