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[porn_clips]

 Hi, I would like to ask why every new topic and every new page piles up vertically in the form of posts in the main home page? I would like to have separate pages, for each separate category, and when the link on the page is clicked, it opens a whole new page instead of scrolling down the posts! I tried changing the template with other templates, it doesn't help...

I also looked in the settings: Select Journal Style / Customize Journal Style / Test Beta Features, but I didn't find a function to create separate pages anywhere.

I also looked in the CREATE menu, but there is no option to create a new separate page, only Post Entry / Edit Entries, but again I didn't find a function to create separate pages anywhere.

I would be glad if someone with more experience could help, thanks in advance!

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[wildefae]

The other commenters have already stated the reason why it's "piling" up, however there ARE ways around this. (RP-ers have all figured them out, lol.)

A way you might want to do this, as long as you're looking to mainly apply it to your own journal and not your reading page, is by tagging your entries by topic.

Then you can do a few different things to have a central navigation as your "home page" -- set Recent Entries to show only 1 and forward-date an entry so it'll be the first one, have a sticky note, make a dedicated splash page (probably with a template so you can just pop in the links to the tags), etc -- and put in links to the tag pages on that entry so that people can get to different topics.

Here are examples of journals I did this with. mousebyte I obviously made her journal have a very particular "look", but you can have any template and different looking main pages; you don't have to have the tags visible on the side, etc. (For example, here's a totally different looking one that doesn't have any sidebar or anything: fearisfortheenemy [feel free to explore how these are set up, I don't really care as long as you aren't weird at me :P "visuals" is not functional yet.] The person who MADE the layout is credited on the left side.)

Instead of linking to a single entry for "info", "permissions" etc like I do on those, you'd want to link to a whole tag page (http://porn_clips.dreamwidth.org/tag/[insert-tag-here]) so that all the entries under that topic show up. Voila, separated by topic.

[wildefae]

I took a quick glance at your journal and it looks like you HAVE kind of done this with the sticky note, so you could kind of just rely on that tag sidebar to let people navigate. People looking for what you're posting aren't gonna care if they have to look at the sidebar.

BUT: if you want to have a navigation bar on that main post, I would definitely space the links out a little better, get out of rich text and learn the basics of <a href="whatever">text</a> or even <span style="background-color=#000; color=#fff; padding=#;"><a href="thing">text</a></span>! or get a free template from one of the many resources and put your links in -- but right now that is a HUGE BLOCK OF TEXT and it basically looks like you're trying to oldschool keyword spam, lol

(Do your thing, I don't judge content, but plz make it look like ...links)