Snowflake 4: Pages
Jan. 19th, 2026 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impala_chickI am getting ready to delete my Livejournal. I haven't posted anything there since 2022, and all of the news about the data being sold off is making me super uncomfortable. I loved that website for such a long time, but maybe it's really time to say goodbye.
This Snowflake Challenge inspired me to go back through my memories/saved entries on LJ and pull out some notable ones.
•This is a list of all of the originals songs used in Roswell put together by Sweet_honeygirl. I think songs were changed/swapped when Roswell was put on Netflix. Originally posted 11-03-2007.
•Fic: A Love Like the Sea by andrealyn in four parts. Originally posted at camp_toccoa on 5-21-2009. WARNING for attempted suicide & suicidal ideation. I recced this fic and bookmarked it. I'm rereading it and I don't have the same love for it as I once did, but It's still worth noting how much the characterization of this fic likely influenced my future webgott fics.
Pairing: Liebgott/Webster
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 6,015
ETA This fic was posted on AO3.
•And then this is an html guide by inkvoices that is still usable if you use HTML on DW. I remember learning a lot from this post! I decided to copy/paste it under this cut so that I'd have it if the site went down. Originally posted 10-08-2012.
The bits of html code are called ‘tags’ and adding them is called ‘tagging’. You tag around the text that you want the tag to affect, opening the tag on one side and closing it on the other. Whenever you open a tag you need to close it – if you say ‘I want this text to be bold’ you need to remember to say ‘stop being bold now!’ or you get a whole lot of bold!
Where I’ve written TEXT this is the text that you want to be affected by the tag.
Here are the tags that you will probably use the most often:
To make you text bold: TEXT
To make your text italic: TEXT
To underline your text: TEXT
To strikethrough text:TEXT
To show a livejournal username with a built in link like inkvoices :username
To hide text behind a cut: TEXT
The html posing box on LJ recognises line breaks and paragraphs – how you type them is how they show up. This is a good thing *grins*. The convention for posting fics on LJ is to leave a line between paragraphs, avoiding large blocks of text that are often difficult to read. Text typed into the html posting box will also automatically be aligned to the left.
You can change this to align it to the centre:TEXT
Html can also be fussy when it comes to the quotation marks used in them – if I type the tags with quotation marks in Word and then copy and paste into the LJ posting box the quotation marks aren’t accepted, so I have to add the quotation marks when I get to the posting box. If this is a problem for you as well then I recommend posting your fic into a html livejournal posting box, adding the quotation marks, and then copy and pasting the fic onto the email you’ll be sending to the Secret Santa organisers. Or pasting it back into Word and sending THAT document to the Secret Santa organisers.
It can also be fun to change the size and colour of your text.
The easiest way to make it smaller is: < small>TEXT
Another way is to add a + or – that can go to seven in either direction. For example: < font size=+3>TEXT
There are a number of colours that you can use with the simple tag < font color="COLOUR">TEXT such as TEXT. These colors are (and are spelt as): red, yellow, blue, green, black, white, aqua, fuscia, lime, maroon, navy, olive, silver, gold, teal, and gray.
Some other tags that can come in handy:
Adding links: TEXT
Where it says LINK HERE the link should start with http:// The easiest way to get a link is to copy and paste it from your internet browser’s address bar. The TEXT part can be whatever you want :)
A link to this comm would look like < a href="http://be-compromised.livejournal.com/">TEXT
Adding pictures: < img src="LINK HERE"/>
When people refer to ‘hotlinking’ they mean people who just copy the link of an image or icon and use that in their picture links. In moderation, this is fine, but if too many people use the same link then wherever that link has been uploaded to can’t cope and the image link shorts out, for lack of a better explanation. To avoid this save the image to your own computer, then upload it yourself onto your own place on the internet. I use both photobucket and the livejournal scrapbook.
To use the scrapbook go to ‘home’, hover over ‘profile’ and go down to ‘scrapbook’ and click. You will have options to create a new album or just to upload. Follow the instructions to upload, either into an unsorted album or a new one. Underneath the uploaded picture, on the right, you have the options ‘set as cover’, ‘original’, a little chain symbol, and ‘delete’. Click on the chain and it will actually give you the direct link and, underneath, the html that I’ve shown you above complete with the link. Alternatively, click on ‘original’ which will lead you to the image and nothing but the image, at which point you can just copy what is in the address bar.
You always use a direct link for posting pictures or images. This is the image itself. Not the address for the page that the image is on. (Yep, I’ve done that mistake too.)
You can also post a box with html in it, so that people can copy and paste it, known as a ‘text box’. This box doesn’t have to have html in it, but it’s a way of posting html without it doing anything. The code is: < textarea rows='5' cols='42'>TEXT
You can use different values, but 5 and 42 make a pretty good size and looks like:
this is where your text or html goes
Tags can be combined, just remember to close them all and in reverse order. For example:
< u>< b>TEXT
And a few other things:
I’ve shown you how to do a livejournal username with a link, like be_compromised, which was![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
be_compromised since comm usernames are done the same as individual's usernames, but you can also do the same for dreamwidth and AO3 usernames. Replace USERNAME with the username.
For dreamwidth:
< a href='http://USERNAME.dreamwidth.org/'>![[community profile]](https://dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
USERNAME
For AO3:
< a href="http://www.archiveofourown.org/users/USERNAME/profile">![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/2484250-124614/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
USERNAME
And finally, to hide spoilers or other text that you don’t want people to see you want to make the background colour the same colour as the text. Some people just make their text white, but not everyone has a white background. White text for someone that has a black background on their friends list page really does not hide anything!
To make both the text and the background white the html is: < span style="color: #ffffff; background-color: #ffffff;">TEXT
Play around and use the preview function to see what things look like :)
MY NOTE: Take out the space after the < for the codes to work.
This Snowflake Challenge inspired me to go back through my memories/saved entries on LJ and pull out some notable ones.
•This is a list of all of the originals songs used in Roswell put together by Sweet_honeygirl. I think songs were changed/swapped when Roswell was put on Netflix. Originally posted 11-03-2007.
•Fic: A Love Like the Sea by andrealyn in four parts. Originally posted at camp_toccoa on 5-21-2009. WARNING for attempted suicide & suicidal ideation. I recced this fic and bookmarked it. I'm rereading it and I don't have the same love for it as I once did, but It's still worth noting how much the characterization of this fic likely influenced my future webgott fics.
Pairing: Liebgott/Webster
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 6,015
ETA This fic was posted on AO3.
•And then this is an html guide by inkvoices that is still usable if you use HTML on DW. I remember learning a lot from this post! I decided to copy/paste it under this cut so that I'd have it if the site went down. Originally posted 10-08-2012.
The bits of html code are called ‘tags’ and adding them is called ‘tagging’. You tag around the text that you want the tag to affect, opening the tag on one side and closing it on the other. Whenever you open a tag you need to close it – if you say ‘I want this text to be bold’ you need to remember to say ‘stop being bold now!’ or you get a whole lot of bold!
Where I’ve written TEXT this is the text that you want to be affected by the tag.
Here are the tags that you will probably use the most often:
To make you text bold: TEXT
To make your text italic: TEXT
To underline your text: TEXT
To strikethrough text:
To show a livejournal username with a built in link like inkvoices :
usernameTo hide text behind a cut: TEXT
The html posing box on LJ recognises line breaks and paragraphs – how you type them is how they show up. This is a good thing *grins*. The convention for posting fics on LJ is to leave a line between paragraphs, avoiding large blocks of text that are often difficult to read. Text typed into the html posting box will also automatically be aligned to the left.
You can change this to align it to the centre:
Html can also be fussy when it comes to the quotation marks used in them – if I type the tags with quotation marks in Word and then copy and paste into the LJ posting box the quotation marks aren’t accepted, so I have to add the quotation marks when I get to the posting box. If this is a problem for you as well then I recommend posting your fic into a html livejournal posting box, adding the quotation marks, and then copy and pasting the fic onto the email you’ll be sending to the Secret Santa organisers. Or pasting it back into Word and sending THAT document to the Secret Santa organisers.
It can also be fun to change the size and colour of your text.
The easiest way to make it smaller is: < small>TEXT
Another way is to add a + or – that can go to seven in either direction. For example: < font size=+3>TEXT
There are a number of colours that you can use with the simple tag < font color="COLOUR">TEXT such as TEXT. These colors are (and are spelt as): red, yellow, blue, green, black, white, aqua, fuscia, lime, maroon, navy, olive, silver, gold, teal, and gray.
Some other tags that can come in handy:
Adding links: TEXT
Where it says LINK HERE the link should start with http:// The easiest way to get a link is to copy and paste it from your internet browser’s address bar. The TEXT part can be whatever you want :)
A link to this comm would look like < a href="http://be-compromised.livejournal.com/">TEXT
Adding pictures: < img src="LINK HERE"/>
When people refer to ‘hotlinking’ they mean people who just copy the link of an image or icon and use that in their picture links. In moderation, this is fine, but if too many people use the same link then wherever that link has been uploaded to can’t cope and the image link shorts out, for lack of a better explanation. To avoid this save the image to your own computer, then upload it yourself onto your own place on the internet. I use both photobucket and the livejournal scrapbook.
To use the scrapbook go to ‘home’, hover over ‘profile’ and go down to ‘scrapbook’ and click. You will have options to create a new album or just to upload. Follow the instructions to upload, either into an unsorted album or a new one. Underneath the uploaded picture, on the right, you have the options ‘set as cover’, ‘original’, a little chain symbol, and ‘delete’. Click on the chain and it will actually give you the direct link and, underneath, the html that I’ve shown you above complete with the link. Alternatively, click on ‘original’ which will lead you to the image and nothing but the image, at which point you can just copy what is in the address bar.
You always use a direct link for posting pictures or images. This is the image itself. Not the address for the page that the image is on. (Yep, I’ve done that mistake too.)
You can also post a box with html in it, so that people can copy and paste it, known as a ‘text box’. This box doesn’t have to have html in it, but it’s a way of posting html without it doing anything. The code is: < textarea rows='5' cols='42'>TEXT
You can use different values, but 5 and 42 make a pretty good size and looks like:
this is where your text or html goes
Tags can be combined, just remember to close them all and in reverse order. For example:
< u>< b>TEXT
And a few other things:
I’ve shown you how to do a livejournal username with a link, like be_compromised, which was
be_compromised since comm usernames are done the same as individual's usernames, but you can also do the same for dreamwidth and AO3 usernames. Replace USERNAME with the username.For dreamwidth:
< a href='http://USERNAME.dreamwidth.org/'>
USERNAMEFor AO3:
< a href="http://www.archiveofourown.org/users/USERNAME/profile">
And finally, to hide spoilers or other text that you don’t want people to see you want to make the background colour the same colour as the text. Some people just make their text white, but not everyone has a white background. White text for someone that has a black background on their friends list page really does not hide anything!
To make both the text and the background white the html is: < span style="color: #ffffff; background-color: #ffffff;">TEXT
Play around and use the preview function to see what things look like :)
MY NOTE: Take out the space after the < for the codes to work.
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Date: 2026-01-20 12:36 am (UTC)Anyway.... that was a fun half hour (LOL) ;)
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Date: 2026-01-20 12:49 am (UTC)Can you make all of your posts private in one go, or do you have to do that entry-by-entry?
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Date: 2026-01-20 02:24 am (UTC)Go to Account Settings, then change Status. It brought up another window about deleting the account and asked me "If you are not sure you want to completely delete your LiveJournal account, you can make all of your entries private to hide for users. " so I followed that.
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Date: 2026-01-20 02:36 am (UTC)