Help!

[lunabee34]

I've always gotten occasional complaints from people who couldn't find the comment button on my journal, but they've been coming fast and furious for a few months now so I decided to change my layout (*wails* I loved my layout *sob* but I digress). I tried to find something as close to what I had already that has the comment function at the bottom of the entry rather than on the side.

I'd like for the font to be bigger and I'd like to change the colors of, say, links. I can find where to do that but I don't know where to find a list of the colors to choose from or which font I should choose to make it bigger. Can anybody direct me please?

ETA: I figured it out!

Comments

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Can's you just change your old style it so it doesn't force your Style on the comments page? (I hate that S2 makes forcing your style on the comments page opt-out rather than opt-in.) Or were people having trouble finding the Leave Comment button when navigating from your main journal display?

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I don't think I understand what you're asking me.

*is lame*

LOL

Whenever I post a link in a comm to my fic, I inevitably get a few comments in the comm instead of in my actual journal from people saying that they can't find the comment button in my journal. It's the unearthed thingy that does that. My old layout was veiled metal, but it only comes in unearthed, not one of the styles where you can comment at the bottom. Personally, I don't think it's all that confusing, especially after about a year or so ago when I changed the comment button from saying something cutesy back to saying "leave a comment," but apparently it is confusing to many people.

I'm okay with this being my new layout, I'd just like to change a few things about it. Even if I did go back to the old layout, I'd still need to know about the color and font thing because emella customized that when she overhauled my journal for me.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to manipulate stuff in S2, so I can't help you with that.

What I mean about forcing your style on the comments page is... you know how your LJ looks, right? Well when I'm visiting individual pages, I want them to rather than showing all that stuff. I want them to look like so: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v35/hermionesviolin/LJ_display.jpg

LJ has an option so I can make all entries I read off my friendspage display that way, but if I'm direct-linked to an entry I have to manually add ?style=mine to the end of the URL unless they've done the following:

http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml
Disable customized comment pages for your journal

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Okay. I get what you're saying now. :)

I decided just to try to click on everything on the customize page and lo and behold that worked. If you click on each color it brings up a box of options to choose from. And sans serif is the bigger font, fyi.

Yay. It's looked pretty much like I want it now. Thanks for your help, Elizabeth.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Glad you got what you needed figured out :)

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I totally figured out the color thing. Yay!

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm too late to help with help, although in S2 you can chance the font size, too, I think, and not just the font style for most layouts, and also, the colors can be whatever you want, I think, but, and I don't mean to make you feel badly, I'm going to miss your old layout, too, even if I was another person who sometimes had trouble finding the comment button.

(Perhaps if I tried really hard I could manage another few clauses in that sentence.)

*hugs*

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

It's just so weird. I know people on my flist who change their layouts every couple months or so (the way I used to be about haircuts and color), but my journal has had the same layout since almost the beginning. We're talking years!

But this one is really close in terms of color to what I had before and I did it all myself instead of having someone else do it for me, so that's cool too.

Plus, all my black and white icons look really awesome on this layout.

Re: *hugs*

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

I am in the strange position of desperately wanting to change my layout but not being able to: it's my 2007 football season layout, and the season went south about a month ago, so I don't really want to think about football anymore for a little while, but it's not over until Saturday, and possibly not even then. But I'm changing it on Sunday no matter what.

(And go you: sisters are doing it for themselves?)

Re: *hugs*

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

What will you change it to?

I'm sorry the season's gone so sour for you. I know how much you enjoy football.

Re: *hugs*

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

Something less football-y?

I have some ideas, but you'll just have to wait and see (so will I, actually). I really liked my other (not-Cal) layout, so I might just do that again. I want a style that has a tag list, though.

And oh, my team, they are so much worse than our worst expectations. (Also: you might have already heard, and this has additional importance since you're moving home soon, but USM just fired Jeff Bower, and the entire sports world is aghast. So far as I can tell, the Golden Eagle world is fairly relieved, because their season has turned out a lot worse than ours.)

Re: *hugs*

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Whoa! I had not heard that. When did that happen?

My parents are die hard Eagle fans, always get season tickets, listen to the games on the radio if they can't go and Mom commented to me over the holidays--"I'm just done with them for now, Lorraine. Tired of it." And it was like she had told me that daddy was about to carve up a newborn for our Thanksgiving feast. Never thought I'd hear her say that. So, I bet they are relieved too.

I knew about Coach O here at Ole Miss, of course. The football player I teach was telling the class about how security had to escort him out after they fired him. LOL

Re: *hugs*

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

Sunday, maybe Monday? There wasn't a lot of warning or anything, and everyone was taken by surprise.

They really had people escort Orgeron out? That's weird (for the players, I mean: they put all their trust in this guy, and then the rug is pulled out from all of them). But then, Ole Miss immediately hired someone else's recently fired coach (Houston Nutt from Arkansas), so I guess it's all good.

In the last few years, I've discovered that off-season coaching changes in college football are the best soap opera ever.

Re: *hugs*

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Well, don't take it as gospel cause I didn't see it myself, but yeah, that's what Trey said. LOL

I'm surprised Mom hasn't said anything to me about Bower. She actually taught Bower's wife ages ago.

[tabaqui]

People are lame. I'd say screw 'em and use the layout *you* like. It's your journal! And seriously - how stupid do you have to be to *not* be able to find the freakin' comment link?

Jayzus.
*hugs*

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeee.

*hugs*

I think I've gotten over the shock of changing it and now I'm actually having a good time fooling around with stuff.

[tabaqui]

So long as you're happy, bay-bee.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Now that's what I like to hear.

*grin*