magnolia ([personal profile] magnolia) wrote in [community profile] style_system2011-06-09 03:47 pm

Importing Dreamwidth layouts to LiveJournal?

Is it possible to import layouts from Dreamwidth to LiveJournal? I still use LJ for some stuff, but the layouts are just too hard for me to see. I've imported an LJ layout to DW before so I kinda know how it works, but I was wondering if it would even work.

Also, how do I find out which layouts are available to import? Do I contact the person who made it, or do is this information on the site somewhere and I just keep overlooking it?

Any info would be appreciated. :) Thanks!
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[personal profile] foxfirefey 2011-06-09 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
So, basically, you can probably cut a DW style up until you can use it on LJ. But it won't be obvious or trivial, I think--we've made changes to the core that LJ hasn't.

All of the open source themes (and the layouts that are open source too), which is most of them, are here:

http://styles.memewidth.org/themes/?layoutfilter=dw-free&themefilter=dw-free

And, well, to be honest people on DW import non-free layouts from LJ a bunch, so turn about is fair play in my opinion.

Alternatively, do you want to describe what you're looking for in an LJ layout? Maybe there is a good alternative there already.