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So what is this page about? Well, I've learned a few tricks about live journal that I want to share easily. Here I'll describe a few major standard html things, and the live journal specific things. This page is good for those that don't know any html, and those that know html, but don't know the livejournal specific tags avaliable. I'm going to write this for those that don't have any clue, so if you have one, please excuse those parts. ;)

Link to pages

There are a lot of times when you want to link to some web page that you've found and want to share with the world, otherwise known as livejournal. ;) What you need to do first is get the URL. That is the address in the Location box at the top of your web browser. If you're looking at this page, it should be something like "http://www.geekmeat.net/livejournal/howto.html". So find where that is at the top of the page, and that's where you'll get the URL from.

Now that you have the URL, start a new post. If you're here, and you need a new window to make a post, click here. Now write whatever you want in the post, and when you get to where you want to put the link, put in the following text. Replace the text URL with the URL you've found. Replace the text NAME with what you want to be the words that are the link.

Link to pictures

The trick here is that you have to access to some other web page. In other words, you have to already have the pictures on the web, and be able to get to them through your web browser. Once they are, you need to follow like above to get the URL of the picture. If its embedded in a web page already, a lot of times you can right click on the picture, and there should be something similar to "Copy Image Location", that will be your URL.

Once you have the URL of the picture, just compose a new post(you can use the link above again ;). Where you want the picture displayed, use the following code. Replace the text URL with your URL, and replace the text NAME with a text alternative to the picture. You can also use a width option as below to decrease the size of the picture, as to not annoy all of your friends with huge pictures. ;) 400 is a decent size to use, as long as your picture is bigger than that. You should always atleast preview without the width option, and put it in if the picture is too big. Its also sometimes curtious to put pictures behind a cut(described below), especially when you're putting a lot of pictures up.

Link to a Livejournal User

This is useful when you're referencing a friend who is on livejournal. This allows your friends to easily check out someone whom you think is pretty cool for one reason or another. One of the main reasons I use this is if I want to reference who I got a quiz from.

So you obviously need to know the livejournal username. Once you do, its pretty simple. Just put the below text in place of the person's name. Replace the text USER with the livejournal username above.

Live Journal Cut

You may have noticed that when you're looking at your friends page, some of them may have a link in the middle of their post that if you click you get the rest of the post. This is the Live Journal Cut. It allows someone to leave out stuff that not everyone wants to read, or to make their posts shorter so that boring stuff doesn't clutter everyone's live journal.

To cut out a section of text, place the following before and after the text, respectively. Replace the text DESC with the name of the cut link. Note that it will not show up when the full text is displayed. You'll have to play with it to understand fully. ;)

Link to Livejournal FAQ

To come later.

More?

Need to know how to do something else? Or know something else commonly used that I should add here? Mail Me.