like a phoenix you rise from the ashes

[shorelle]

So, I can has a Dreamwidth! I'm liking the design and general atmosphere of this place, so I hope to stick around. This is shorelle on Livejournal, by the way, and as strange as it feels to part with a username of over six years, I also felt like a fresh start. Let's see if I'll grow into this, or come crawling back (oh Asmodean, crazy teenage fictional loves never die away...)

Anyway, this journal is friends-only, but I'm always happy to make new friends so do wave and let me know who you are! :D

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[shopfront]

*waves* You confused me for a minute there, I have penumbra on my lj flist so I thought you were her.

[shopfront]

Oh, and rather using the DW username code/link for shorelle, if you use <*user name="shorelle" site="livejournal.com"> minus the asterisk, then it'll link back to your LJ account. Just an fyi.

[shorelle]

Ahh, thank you! I didn't realise that it was linking back to DW instead of LJ /is a noob |D

Oh dear, and I'm sorry! I suppose it was more than likely that the name would have been taken ages ago on LJ. I was tossing up between a few names, but the meaning behind this won out. Also, Latin is love.

[shopfront]

Haha, I just imagine it'll confuse me for a while, and the coincidence rather amuses me. Small online world, that.

And remembering there's slightly different codes, and all the little tweaks, takes a little while to get used to don't worry! :P If you weren't aware that you can make your tags hierarchical (mine lj tag format automatically imported with hierarchies whee, which was nice and lucky), for instance, that is a cool but tiny tweak that you don't especially need to think about. The inter-platform operability bits take a bit more retraining of the auto-pilot though.

[shorelle]

Ahh, hierarchical tags would be awesome! My current LJ ones are a mess because of the lack thereof D: Sorry to bother with possibly dumb questions, but do you know if icons are automatically imported with LJ entries? (I have more icons on LJ than on the paid account here, so I'd have to delete the LJ ones down to 75 in order to import my icons separately.)

[shopfront]

Oh they are, they are. See? It works if you go blahblah: blahblah, which I already happened to be doing on LJ by chance. So, like, my tag on lj would be fandom: battlestar galactica. And here on my tag list it is split and sorted and neat and easy to read and just... love. *pets tag list*

And you don't have enough icons? Oh, right, I'm guessing you have the lower level of paid account? Goodness, that's going to take some getting used to, remembering that people with paid accounts might not still have all the same features. I know they've fiddled with the importer since I last used it, but I believe the basic options are the same. In which case you can choose whether or not to import your icons, and then rerun the importer with just your icons, etc. at a later date, or vice versa. There was a bug before where if you had more icons on LJ than spaces on DW than your icons wouldn't import properly/at all, but I have no idea if they've fixed that yet. It quite possible was on the list of things to be fixed before open beta, but I really can't remember for sure. If it has been fixed, it should take your first 75 icons and ignore the remainder though, I think that was the plan.

I know if you imported your entries and then went back to import your icons separately then none of your imported entries would have non-default icons. I... don't know if they were going to fix that/fix it anytime soon.

[shorelle]

Whee, that does look pretty! Finally, I won't need to have two separate tags when talking about books/series \o/

Yep, it's the lower one. I checked the Import page and it says that if you have too many icons, it will only import your default one. I think I'll wait until it's resolved before importing (there's no rush anyway!)

Ahh, the more I play around, the more I want to stay!