new layout, what do we think?

[mercat]

I've been messing around looking for a new layout because the lack of width on the last one was killing me, and I also have such a headache right now that trying to read white text on a black background is killer.

I'm not totally satisfied with this layout (I will probably switch out the "shark week" header for my own header) but it works until I find something better.


Also, I need some help. I would like to start a separate blog that I'm planning to be a design-based blog, basically, redesigning life. Breaking stupid habits, making things simpler, younameit. However, I can't figure out which would be the best platform. I love Livejournal, but it's not taken very seriously, and I think "outsiders" tend not to comment on it partly because of that. Plus, I don't know how well lj posts show up in RSS readers and such? Anyway, Blogger is too simplistic for my tastes, and stuff like TypePad is not free. Wordpress gives 3GB of space for you to use and is probably the best platform if I weren't so loyal to livejournal.

Anyway, I just have been accumulating a lot of links and I'd like to have a place to put them that I guess is more tradtional and less personal, set up like "here's the interest photo, here's some text from the website, here's my discussion". And in terms of that, Livejournal tends to be more personal blogs and comms, I think... But if I choose Wordpress, I don't really have any idea of how to get readers. Not that I am trying to be a professional blogger or anything, I just don't really know how to go about this. D:


Also, so much for Earth Day. With all my depression about that article I read I have now deemed it Dystopia Day, especially in light of the fact that I have a new listen-to-it-nonstop Billy Joel song that is awesome, and (in particular) dystopian. (Which reminds me of We Will Rock You, and listening to that all the way to and from Spain, incidentally.)

Here, have some dystopia for your day:

Back with more later, I am sure.

Also, hey "little Hawaiiana Jones icon that matches perfectly"!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno much about any other blogging sites, but I can tell you that lj RSS feeds (mostly this one, since Candice doesn't update much) work just fine for me, via Firefox's Live Bookmarks.

Also, that song is indeed awesome; I'll have to pick it up.

- David M.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

You get pictures and videos and everything? Does it tell you how many comments there are currently and stuff? Does it just automatically pull the material from behind a cut?

I guess I should check this out in Google Reader, too. Thanks though.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, it shows all comments, and yes. It's a link to the full post, basically a folder with automatically updating bookmarks. Standalone readers are presumably different; can't help you there. Only downside is, no custom theme, it's just the white and blue. I still get the custom theme with Candice's feed, though, so maybe there's a setting you need to check somewhere?

- David M.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

It's probably because of my settings or her journal style.

Some journals (which might include hers, if she has a Plus account) allow you to use your theme on your comment pages as well, but I don't like it anyway, regardless of the fact I can't.

AAAAAND she kinda goes format-happy with stuff, so that's part of it.

Oh, sooo... it's a link, it doesn't pull the info to the page you are reading? (Like Google does, I guess?) I don't know much about RSS feeds and readers. D: