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[sarea]

I'd like to customize my layout a bit more, but the S2 layers/styles documentation on LJ goes a bit (a bit, a lot, who's counting?) over my head. Does anyone know of a good tutorial I could use?

It doesn't seem to matter that the DT is what brought on my D/G love ... I kind of want to see it end Ginny/Tom. Is that wrong? I have my reasons.

It's never pretty when I go to Overstock.com, but this time, I walked away with Sports Night (complete series!), Roswell S2 (I didn't even know it was out -- I'm such a bad fan), and Friday Night Lights, as well as some other books.

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[sssexygirl.livejournal.com]

ok i seen your entry in component_help and i do know the answers to your questions however its extremly huge to place in comments. the tuts you are looking for are on this comment.

this is for fixing the hugeness of the friends page:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/component_help/312423.html

to remove the nav bar you go into edit customizations and where it says to pick the order of your components, you just dont pick the nav bar you leave it empty.

as of right now i dont see any repeating components.

and right now looking at your journal i dont see any link buttons or edit entry buttons so i cant answer that question.

i will leave you with this s2layers
this is a community that was made for this reason. people go there to share thier s2 layers with each other. so incase you dont understand what they mean on the tutorials you can go there and actually view whats in thier layer to help you understand.
i hope this helps you, if not feel free to keep asking someone will always help.. good luck!

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Hi, thanks so much for your suggestions.

Unfortunately, any time I go to "edit customizations" and change anything there, it overwrites everything I've done in my user layer, so I'm unable to "deselect" the navbar there. Is there a code I can use to turn it off?

That's also why you didn't see the repeating components when you came, I was trying to reset it to my customized code. You can probably see it now if you have the inclination.

I appreciate the help.

[sssexygirl.livejournal.com]

yes there is a part in the user layer you just do this

set comp_navbar = false;

anytime you go to make changes with edit cust make sure to copy your user layer before you do it. you compair the old one and the new one with your changes, and you add the old stuff back on it :D

[sssexygirl.livejournal.com]

ok upon thinking about this i still dont see repeat free text boxes but. if you do this it will remove the nav component and the one at the top if you didnt want it there.

ok this sets the free text to work it sets it to make a nav component. BUT it also sets it to remove the nav component from view. and stop the free text from repeating.

so what this shows on the journal is profile calendar and free text. anything that you want out you just put "none" in there instead of the wording i have



set second_position = "calendar_order";
set show_free_text = true;
set sixth_position = "none";
set comp_navbar = true;
set fifth_position = "none";
set fourth_position = "free_text_order";
set first_position = "profile_order";
set third_position = "none";

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Actually, after your earlier comment, I went and took the code that LJ created from the customization page and repositioned everything. That led me to do exactly what you've suggested here, and that took care of both removing the navbar and stopping the repetition of the components. :D

I've edited my post on components_help to reflect what I no longer need help on (and your assistance!) ... because somehow, in doing the above, the sizing was also fixed on my friends page and entry link page. Who knew?? :-)

Now the only thing left for me to de-mystify is how to get the permalink to be next to the entry-link icons rather than on top.

[sssexygirl.livejournal.com]

ok im not sure if this is what you want or not
but go look at one of my styles and find the thing next to the entry icons and tell me if thats it. if it is then i will have to post the code in a journal entry and let you read it hehe. so lemme know heres the link

http://www.livejournal.com/users/sssexygirl/?s2id=3851711

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Okay, first of all -- they are all so cool. <g> I looove the look of the dates on the first two skins. And how you have hearts on your calendar!

Secondly, the only skin that seems to have sort of what I'm looking for is "The Passion of the Christ" -- there's a permalink on that one. But instead of being in the middle, the way it is, I would like it off to the side along with the other icons.

So that it looks like this:

( Link )

Instead of:

( Link )


(This is the way it looks on my journal right now.)

See what I mean?

[sssexygirl.livejournal.com]

ok they all have perma links just they are buttons instead of letters :) do you want letters or a button? the thing that looks like a chain on my journal is the perma link. this picture is my perma link. i figured instead of words a button would match the rest of the buttons. if you still want the words lemme know

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Ahhh -- actually, it would be cool to have the button. I will upload that to my own server. But what's the code to get that included with the others? Right now the code looks like this (I'm including a bunch of it because I'm not sure what's important...):

<td width="50%" align="right" valign="center">""";
# Then the entry related buttons

# The easiest way to do this, which will work for all
account types, is as follows, and will display
# actual buttons.
# If you'd like text instead of buttons, then remove the
following line in blue, decomment the lines in pink,
# and edit as you see fit. Note that using the print_linkbar
function will also add next and previous buttons
# to the
# Entry page (with comments), and I've reflected that in the
pink lines below.
"""<div class="entryComments"><span
style="white-space:nowrap;"><b>( <a href="$e.permalink_url"
class="commentLinks">$*text_permalink</a>
)<b></span></div>""";$e->print_linkbar();

# var Link prevlink = $e->get_link("nav_prev");
# if ($p.view=="entry" and defined $prevlink and
$prevlink.url!="") { """<a href="$prevlink.url">
# <img border='0' width="$prevlink.icon.width"
height="$prevlink.icon.height" alt=""
# src="$prevlink.icon.url" /></a>"""; }
# var Link editlink = $e->get_link("edit_entry");
# if (defined $editlink and $editlink.url!="") { """<a
href="$editlink.url"><img border='0' width="$editlink.icon.width"
height="$editlink.icon.height" alt="" src="$editlink.icon.url"
/></a>"""; }
# var Link memlink = $e->get_link("mem_add");
# if (defined $memlink and $memlink.url!="") { """<a
href="$memlink.url"><img border='0' width="$memlink.icon.width"
height="$memlink.icon.height" alt="" src="$memlink.icon.url"
/></a>"""; }
# var Link nextlink = $e->get_link("nav_next");
# if ($p.view=="entry" and defined $nextlink and
$nextlink.url!="") { """<a href="$nextlink.url"><img border='0'
width="$nextlink.icon.width" height="$nextlink.icon.height" alt=""
src="$nextlink.icon.url" /></a>"""; }
"""
</div>
</td>

And can I just say again how cool you are for helping a clueless gal like me? : )

[sssexygirl.livejournal.com]

ok ill start at the same part you did all you gotta do is copy it how i have it.


<td width="40%" align ="right" valign="center">""";
        # Then the entry related buttons
        """<div class="entryComments">
          """;
          # The easiest way to do this, which will work for all account types, is as follows, and will display actual buttons.
          # I used to use the code following it, but ran into problems trying to figure out the logic to show the edit button on a community properly.
          # If you'd like text instead of buttons, then you can remove the following line in blue, decomment the lines in pink,
          # and edit as you see fit. Note that using the print_linkbar function will also add next and previous buttons when viewing using the EntryPage.
          #$e->print_linkbar();
         
          # Edit button : Only put up if the person viewing this entry wrote the entry
          # I check that by checking whether the person looking at the page is the owner of the page, and the entry's poster is the page's owner.
          # It puts Edit buttons on my entries, and entries that I post to communities that show on my friends page.
          if (viewer_is_owner() and $e.poster.username==$p.journal.username) { """
           <a href="$e.permalink_url" class="commentLinks">
            <img src="http://geocities.com/tatertati28/link.txt (http://geocities.com/tatertati28/link.txt)" alt="Link" style="border: 0;" /></a>
          <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/editjournal_do.bml?journal=$e.journal.username&itemid=$e.itemid (http://www.livejournal.com/editjournal_do.bml?journal=$e.journal.username&itemid=$e.itemid)">
               <img border="0" width="22" height="20" alt="Edit Entry" src="http://stat.livejournal.com/img/btn_edit.gif (http://stat.livejournal.com/img/btn_edit.gif)" /></a>
            """;
          }"""
         
          <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memadd.bml?journal=$e.journal.username&itemid=$e.itemid (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memadd.bml?journal=$e.journal.username&itemid=$e.itemid)">
              <img border="0" width="22" height="20" alt="Add to Memories" src="http://stat.livejournal.com/img/btn_memories.gif (http://stat.livejournal.com/img/btn_memories.gif)" /></a>
          <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/tools/tellafriend.bml?journal=$e.journal.username&itemid=$e.itemid (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/tellafriend.bml?journal=$e.journal.username&itemid=$e.itemid)">
              <img border="0" width="22" height="20" alt="Tell A Friend" src="http://stat.livejournal.com/img/btn_tellfriend.gif (http://stat.livejournal.com/img/btn_tellfriend.gif)" /></a>""";

code cont.

[sssexygirl.livejournal.com]

REST OF THE CODE PICKED UP WHERE THE LAST ENTRY LEFT OFF

      """
        </div>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </table></div>
  """;

  # End the entry component and put a spacer after it so that entry components are seperated.