Stuff for various new-to-DW friends

[flamingsword]

Activism on DW
I follow:
https://communityactionusa.dreamwidth.org/profile or I can type the @ symbol and a name or comm title like so- communityactionusa

https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/profile thisfinecrew

https://transmediaclub.dreamwidth.org/profile transmediaclub

Some of the non-community people I follow often share cool links to articles, news, calls to action, etc. I don't want to make anyone feel singled out, left out, or like I only follow them for activism purposes, so you'll have to scroll through folks' journals yourself, I'm afraid. :T

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How to find people & let people find you:
From any of the back-end pages, the search bar in the upper right side can take you to a list of people and communities with that keyword in their interests, sorted by how recently they updated their journal. For example: https://www.dreamwidth.org/interests?int=disability+justice

To update your journal's interests to let people find you more easily, update your interests on the Edit Profile page AND BE SURE TO PRESS SAVE when you're done. I have screwed that up so many times, lol.

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How to make your journal pretty
To customize your journal layout and colors, go to Select Journal Style and then Customize Journal Style tabs on the left side of the page. If you want custom colors, there's a tab for that

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errata:
crashmargulies has an excellent intro-to-DreamWidth post over here --> https://crashmargulies.dreamwidth.org/3636.html
And of course most Frequently Asked Questions are on the FAQ page --> https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faq

Comments

[crashmargulies]

Ooh I'm glad my intro post is helpful! 🙏🏻

[numb3r_5ev3n]

CSS code for those of us who like to use one huge wallpaper-sized image as a background:

html {
background: url(the link to your image goes here) no-repeat center center fixed;
background-size: cover;
height: 100vh;
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: auto;
perspective: 2px;
}

Paste this into the "custom CSS" box in the Customize Journal Style page.