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[sally_maria]

Two things you may not know...

If you're using LJ Hook - and seriously, if you're using Firefox, why aren't you using LJ Hook, unless you like typing HTML - then you'll be pleased to know that you can fix it to work with Dreamwidth. If you go to the bottom of the LJ Hook Menu, you'll see Preferences and from that menu you can pick Clones Manager. Just add dreamwidth.org to the list by typing it in the box and clicking Enable and Bob's your uncle, handy right-click menu and icon randomiser. :-)

ETA For those of you installing LJ Hook for the first time - the instructions seem to be dreadful to non-existent. If you are in a LJ text box, right-click and LJ Hook will be one of the items in the menu that comes up, just follow the arrows for the sub menus. The thing for randomising icons is a small greenish button that appears next to the drop down where you select the userpic/icon. Hopefully that should sort it out, but if you have any problems ask and I'll do what I can to help.


The other is that if you like the Dreamsheep, like the one in my icon, there's a whole community for posting and sharing them - dreamsheep. There's a download of the base in the first post, if you feel like making your own.

Comments

[sir_guinglain]

Thank you for this!

[sally_maria]

No problem - I found a link to how to do it somewhere and thought it was something that should be passed on.

[birggitt]

Thank you for this! *dances*

[sally_maria]

Glad it was useful. :-)

[rainbow]

Oh, wow. Thank you. I didn't know about that as I'd only used LJ before!

[sally_maria]

You're welcome. :-) I must admit I was really missing it on Dreamwidth, and I thought I might not be the only one.

[rainbow]

It was driving me *crazy* to not have the shortcuts. ::does a little happydance::

[alitalf]

Thanks, I hadn't even heard of ljhook before. I do find that adding span tags with css styhle info is sometimes handy, but not having to type all the html would be a time saver. I will start using it.

[sally_maria]

I'm glad I was able to introduce you to something useful. I find it particularly helpful for writing posts actually straight into my journal, rather than in a separate client, because it can do the LJ cuts etc, without me having to remember all the coding.

It's obviously been too long since I did one of my "I use these extensions, maybe you'd like them too" posts.

[saturn92103.livejournal.com]

I just downloaded LJ Hook and restarted firefox but I have no idea where to find the LJ Hook menu? Help? Thanks!

[sally_maria]

In the text entry box for posts or comments, if you right-click you should see LJ Hook as one of the options on the menu.

It's a cascading series of menus, run the pointer down over it and you'll see options to do things like bold, italic and so on and there's another sub menu called Insert which does LJ cuts, usernames etc.

I hope that helps - let me know if you're still having problems.

[saturn92103.livejournal.com]

Got it! Thanks!

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up on LJ Hook. Never heard of it, but I use Firefox so I'll go check it out.

[sally_maria]

I find it very useful, particularly if I'm posting from the LJ page, rather than Semagic - I can never remember all the coding.

And I like being able to have a random icon.

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

The Dreamsheep is actually very cute. :-)

[sally_maria]

I really like them, and fear I'm in danger of collecting a large flock. :-)