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i love layouts with multiple columns for posts, like
https://tess090.insanejournal.com
https://tess072.insanejournal.com
https://tess071.insanejournal.com
however, i don't find any of these on DW, except a single one made by killthecake, which i tried to edit but don't manage to make it fit my likes. so any tips or suggestions? i'd also be happy if someone actually made layouts that looked similar to the above ones since i enjoy minimalist style and tiny fonts.
https://tess090.insanejournal.com
https://tess072.insanejournal.com
https://tess071.insanejournal.com
however, i don't find any of these on DW, except a single one made by killthecake, which i tried to edit but don't manage to make it fit my likes. so any tips or suggestions? i'd also be happy if someone actually made layouts that looked similar to the above ones since i enjoy minimalist style and tiny fonts.
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Date: 2022-10-04 09:27 pm (UTC)Most, if not all, of the official Dreamwidth layouts were made by volunteers.
It is very likely that you could use the same layout from the Insanejournal that you linked on Dreamwidth.
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Date: 2022-10-04 11:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-05 10:00 am (UTC)1) custom layers require space and it's impossible to install them if you already have a few other layouts costumized. (i don't know exactly how many you can save until it tells you that but its NOT many, and i play around with layout customisation a LOT and don't want to delete a bunch of my finished ones just to be able to install a new layer)
2) i'd like to understand how the design element of "multiple entry columns" actually works and how to implement it myself, since, like i said, i play around a lot with layout customisation
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Date: 2022-10-05 04:17 pm (UTC)That being said, I absolutely understand and respect your reasoning against it. Ultimately I switched to a genuine DW layout myself, too. In the long run it just does make more sense in terms of having the full functionality of (newer) DW features. Also, playing around with CSS to make things just perfect for your own preferences is awesome.
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Date: 2022-10-05 11:32 am (UTC)edit: to clarify, i don't mean the annoying 403 error, i mean an actual error it displays related to the copy-pasted HTML
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Date: 2022-10-05 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-05 05:23 pm (UTC)actually this code is the thing i can insert and save without problems. but then it stops. this code just gives me a totally unstyled layout, and i don't understand how to continue from there??? it says i need to save ANOTHER code and i think this means the code for the actual layout i want to use? and this is where i get the save error and i'm totally confused, i was reading the explanation multiple times and just don't get it.
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Date: 2022-10-05 05:47 pm (UTC)That is pretty vague, because there are basically two ways to go about it, but I can see where these instructions might be confusing without any additional information.
So, just to get a better idea how you usually work (since you stated above that you already have saved multiple layers): when you apply CSS for your custom layout, do you usually use additional theme layers or do you insert the CSS in the box here? Either of these options will work and that's what needs to happen in STEP 2 to actually "style" the layout to what you want it to look like.
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Date: 2022-10-05 06:00 pm (UTC)that being said:
it's not only that part, i literally don't understand anything after part 1.
"Your Complete Style theme layer needs to be copied into this compiler. Select the two lines already in the compiler and paste over them. You can find the Complete Style theme layer on Insanejournal at Customize > Advanced > Public Layers > Complete Style, where you then need to click Raw Source Code."
"this compiler"? i had to think what this means in the first place. i don't understand the entire paragraph. what is it referring to? is it saying i need to create a SECOND custom layer in addition to the first one? sorry, it's extremely confusing to me. (also i should add i don't have an IJ account)
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Date: 2022-10-05 08:26 pm (UTC)STEP 1 ends with Click the Edit button next to this layer.. The page that opens when you click the Edit button (403 errors withstanding), is the so-called compiler. At this point there should basically be a mostly blank site with just the two lines at the top:
layerinfo "type" = "layout";
layerinfo "name" = "";
This huge white space is the place to insert the whole lot of code found here. It's important that you actually override/delete the already existing two lines. Now that you copied that code here, you click the tiny [Save & Compile] button at the top of the page until you get the following message in the field at the bottom:
S2 Compiler Output at Wed Oct 5 ...
Compiled with no errors.
If you succeeded with this step your layer can now be found on Your Layer page under the name
Child of layer 1: LiveJournal S2 Core, v1
XXXXXXX | layout | Complete Style
Hopefully that more detailed explanation makes more sense to you? We're still working with just the one layer at this point. By editing it in the so-called compiler we just give it another name and introduce the basic layout instructions from IJ to DW, so that we can style our layout with CSS that's intended for IJ in the next step.
Please let me know if there are any issues with these steps so far or if you got this to work. Then we'll tackle the part where we actually add the custom layout.
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Date: 2022-10-05 11:15 pm (UTC)I just tried the first one ICONIC - Two Column (Sidebar on Right) for myself to figure out if there are any bugs. I also added the suggested additional fixes from the original tutorial.
There was one line of code from that custom layout concerning the entrylinks that caused some issues, but the layout works just fine without that, so I just removed that line.
Since I don't have any public entries on my personal journal to show you the results, I set the layout up (temporarily) on my creative community for you:
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Date: 2022-10-06 10:01 am (UTC)which line though?
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Date: 2022-10-06 12:08 pm (UTC)The full working code (including the suggested modifications from
I am going to remove this layout from my comm, but just in case you (or anyone else) wants to use this later...
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Date: 2022-10-06 10:13 am (UTC)now i just need to remove the poster names because i don't like them appear on my sidejournals/private communities.
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Date: 2022-10-06 12:17 pm (UTC)I hadn't seen her tutorials before, but have taken a closer look now and have to say, there are a lot of really useful tutorials. I also found one where she goes into more detail about how to make these multiple columns layouts. Maybe that might be helpful for you if you want to play around an tweak things.
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Date: 2022-10-06 02:49 pm (UTC)i faintly remember having looked into this link before and not understanding how to implement it...