Importer status

[denise]

At this point, imports are running almost as soon as you submit them, and we've gotten through more or less the entire backlog (barring a few large community imports that need some extra babysitting). We've contacted several people whose imports have been failing to let them know what the problem was, and how they can fix it. If we didn't contact you, but you've tried importing your journal or community and gotten failures more than 10 times since 10 Mar, either let us know here (with the account name and any error messages you've gotten) or by email at support@dreamwidth.org and we'll look into it further!

Comments

[denise]

We completely redesigned the style system from LiveJournal's version, yes! You can technically create a custom style with the code from the base style of whatever LJ style you were using (don't ask me how to do it, honestly, I understand nothing about the style system, but there are instructions somewhere in style_system I think) but we very, very much do not recommend that you do that: a style that was written for LJ won't have access to any of the journal or style features we've added in the last 13 years, and may occasionally break because we've had to make changes to the style core. I very very very much recommend picking a native DW style and recreating the look of your old layout. Again, style_system is an unofficial comm but full of very helpful people!

Custom Style Sheets and Templates

[ishte]

I'm not really looking to use the code from my LJ layouts. I used the S2 style Bloggish unstyled for years and years because I found a template someone posted showing the correct order and field names for the CSS. So once I figured out how it worked (and this was a big learning curve for me. as at the time I'd worked with HTML but never done any CSS coding.) I could easily change the appearance of my journal just by plugging new graphics address into the different fields in my template. So what I'm looking for is more like an example of a css template for a style that does not have coding specific to the style that can't be overridden with an !important tag. So for example, I tried one that left a red border around what in LiveJournal is tagged as um... "#container", which I didn't want. I haven't fooled with it much yet. I'll figure it out though. I'll go study the links you provided and see what I can figure out. I've just been too busy to devote much time to it. Once I have a layout that works the way I want it to, and has things where I want them. (that doesn't tend to change once I'm settled on it.) Then I'll have the CSS to do what I want going forward with whatever style I end up settling on.

Re: Custom Style Sheets and Templates

[denise]

Very belatedly, but: all of our styles assign the same CSS selectors to the same items, so once you learn what controlls what, it's the same in every style.

Re: Custom Style Sheets and Templates

[ishte]

No worries. This is actually really useful information. I've kind of got something going with my layout now, but haven't had time to really dig into it deeply yet, so things don't look exactly like I planned them. It's nice to know that the tags don't vary from style to style. That was an annoying 'feature' I encountered sometimes on LJ until I finally just settled on one style and just built all my own layouts on that style to keep changes simple. So thanks for the follow up on that.