questions/suggestions etc

[fsf_mod]

If you have any questions, suggestions, ideas, comments etc regarding the comm, feel free to comment here.

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[alphastarr]

Thank you so much for the reply! I read the group profile before joining, but a lot of the technicalities of journal/forum posting is a little bit beyond me. ^^;

I really appreciate the advice on using cuts in particular, especially because I've pretty much never had experience with them before. It took me half an hour to figure out how to make one that worked, the other day, and I'm still not completely sure what I did to ultimately fix it.

This answer helped me a lot; I probably overcomplicated comm posts by mistake when I first attempted to use Dreamwidth. Thank you again for the help and advice!

[fsf_mod]

You're welcome! And yeah, the profile is more the rules of the comm, when it comes to the nitty gritty of posting and stuff I can see, reading it over, there's a lot of assumed knowledge there. I will look at at least putting some links in to the relevant bits of the dreamwidth FAQ so it's a bit more explanatory.

One thing with the cuts: are you using the html editor or rich text editor to post? You can swap between them using the links in the top right hand corner of the entry box on the posting page, and I think rich text is the default.

Because (in my opinion, anyway) cuts are way easier using the html editor. (To confess: I have been on dreamwidth since it started and livejournal for years before that and I still sometimes can't get cuts to work using rich text!)

The relevant bit from the FAQ is:

"To make a cut with the HTML Editor, type < cut > before the text you want to hide under a cut, then < /cut > after you've entered the text you want to be hidden. If you'd like to replace the usual "Read more..." cut text, enter < cut text="your text here" > "

(But without the spaces between the "<" and ">" and the word "cut", I had to put those because it's the only way it'll show up in a comment!)

Personally I find that about a thousand times simpler than messing around with trying to highlight text and stuff, so it might work better for you if you haven't tried it already.

And it's no problem at all, like I said, please ask if there's anything else! I know how totally frustrating it can be trying to get a handle on all the ins and outs of somewhere new!

[alphastarr]

It's all good; I definitely think being new to the whole journal format is the majority of my issue. I was initially on Rich Text, I'm pretty sure, and eventually swapped to HTML, which was less confusing. I... think I may have moved the "cut" HTML to the wrong place or deleted part of it by mistake the first couple of times I did it, but the FAQ link you provided was very helpful in helping me figure out how cuts actually work!

Thank you again for the help; I will be sure to ask if I have any more questions! :)