New Mood-themes
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dhae_knight_1Whew! LJ sure doesn't like to make it easy or, y'know, userfriendly (yeah, I know, dirty word) to create a custom mood-theme.
How about... making it possible to just skip straight to the ScrapBook-gallery where you've just uploaded your pictures, in stead of having to open each and every one of them by hand and copy-paste the gosh darn URL? Even the webpage I use at work (which was created by monkeys with typewriters, I kid you not - not even the statistics works!) gets this.
Or... novel idea, here. How about making it possible to just... name the pictures in said ScrapBook gallery appropriately (as in, mood-theme names) and then being able to just point to said ScrapBook gallery and then LJ could do the rest of the work?
But... nooooo! Got to sit and manually open each and every freakin' picture, copy-paste the URL, discover that, no, that URL's no good. Go external and find help. Then go back in with a user-created .txt-file. Open each and every freakin' picture, copy-paste the URL, search-and-replace size and mood-theme ID, then go back over each line of text and delete-replace (by hand, obviously) the /3g with .jpg, then re-find the darn box to copy-paste the whole thing into and cross my fingers it actually works.
Ay caramba! I guess the best thing you can say about LJ is that they want to waste as much of our time as they possibly can, while giving us an enormous sense of accomplishment when we actually succeed in doing something semi-creative.
But - hey look! Pretty, cranky and tied-up-with-leather John Sheppard. Life's good. :-D
How about... making it possible to just skip straight to the ScrapBook-gallery where you've just uploaded your pictures, in stead of having to open each and every one of them by hand and copy-paste the gosh darn URL? Even the webpage I use at work (which was created by monkeys with typewriters, I kid you not - not even the statistics works!) gets this.
Or... novel idea, here. How about making it possible to just... name the pictures in said ScrapBook gallery appropriately (as in, mood-theme names) and then being able to just point to said ScrapBook gallery and then LJ could do the rest of the work?
But... nooooo! Got to sit and manually open each and every freakin' picture, copy-paste the URL, discover that, no, that URL's no good. Go external and find help. Then go back in with a user-created .txt-file. Open each and every freakin' picture, copy-paste the URL, search-and-replace size and mood-theme ID, then go back over each line of text and delete-replace (by hand, obviously) the /3g with .jpg, then re-find the darn box to copy-paste the whole thing into and cross my fingers it actually works.
Ay caramba! I guess the best thing you can say about LJ is that they want to waste as much of our time as they possibly can, while giving us an enormous sense of accomplishment when we actually succeed in doing something semi-creative.
But - hey look! Pretty, cranky and tied-up-with-leather John Sheppard. Life's good. :-D
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Date: 2009-02-23 07:13 pm (UTC)LJ is extremely non-userfriendly. Just trying to create your own layout makes no sense. I did it once, but there's no way in hell I'm gonna tamper with it again, I can't even remember where I did what and why. I don't understand why they don't make a simple easy system. It's like they looked at html coding and a graphic homepage building program and thought "let's mix these two SO THAT NEITHER MAKE ANY SENSE ANYMORE".
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Date: 2009-02-23 08:11 pm (UTC)I don't even dare try to fiddle with layout aside from the ones they offer. *shudders at how much of my life that would consume*
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Date: 2009-02-23 07:23 pm (UTC)I like your new mood theme...what's not to like :-)
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Date: 2009-02-23 08:15 pm (UTC)Boy, was I wrong!
Thanks. Found it online... somewhere... *feels ditzy like Pari$ Hi1t0n*
Like your icon. :-)
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Date: 2009-02-25 10:25 am (UTC)Just read your earlier post (yeah I know I'm sorry, have been shamelessly selfabsorbed this month) and I hope you feel okay and that things have been better at work?
*hugs*
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Date: 2009-02-25 07:24 pm (UTC)Thanks. I did nothing but the manual labor this time around. Maybe. Eventually. If I get really, really bored. I might make my own mood-theme. Or, y'know, replace some of the piccies in the one I've got. Going with SGA, I would really like Lorne painting for my artistic mood. :-D
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Date: 2011-09-29 11:10 pm (UTC)