Three itemized lists.

[hannah]

One reason today was better than yesterday: it started off with these pancakes.

Two good things about a lingering sickness: it doesn't take much to make me feel accomplished, or make me feel like I should head on off to bed earlier than usual.

Three things which I'll need help with in order to get comfortable at DreamWidth and start posting there:

1. Information on how to set up, and access, specific filters of my reading circle so I'm not left reading every journal I subscribe to, but rather a particular set of them.

2. Information on how to set up a mood theme. I'd be willing to pay for an account to get one.

3. Information on crossposting.

Comments

[akire-yta.livejournal.com]

crossposting I found rather easy in the end (after a nap!)
download semagic and follow these instructions. I've grown rather fond of the semagic interface in a very short period of time

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

I've had Semagic for a good long while - is it not nifty?

That guide's exactly the sort of thing I needed. I'll give it a shot and see if it works.

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

Cross posting is very easy and is a matter of setting up the details of the journal you want to cross post to and then making sure the crossposting checkbox is ticked on each new entry (and if you set it to on it will be checked by default).

My issue with DW is that I cannot seem to post photos in it no matter what I do.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

It sounds like doing journal posts between two personal journals is a lot easier than I thought it would be. Phew. And where are you over there?

[swankyfunk.livejournal.com]

Crossposting configuration is under Account Settings, then the Other Sites tab.

And I've just discovered how to set up specific reading filters (for example, what I just did was separate LJ people from the rest of the stuff that pops up on my reading list). Go here to create a new filter -- http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/subscriptions/filters
Then add the journals. Then click the View button, and a new window opens to show you the entries from only those journals.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

It's not making or adding to the filters that's the question so much as it is figuring out how to access them without having to deal with pop-ups or having to go into that section. LJ has a pretty clean way of doing that - the whole "filter friends page" deal - and I don't know if DW doesn't have that at all, or if it's behind the couch and I just haven't looked there.

[swankyfunk.livejournal.com]

I guess you can bookmark those pages? The URLs would be along the lines of http://username.dreamwidth.org/read/nameoffilter

DW separates things into the journals you read and the journals you give access to, while with LJ it's the same thing, so thus the single "filter friends page."

This is how I actually read my LJ, with the bookmarked page that filters out all the RP entries, for example, but then again that's the only filtering I do.

eta: AHA! I found it! Your Subscription Filters can be easily accessed on your dreamwidth.org hub when you log in. They're right there in the right-hand column.

[tourmaline1973.livejournal.com]

DW know they're getting business out of LJ's for-whatever-reason failings, so they have a specific guide to DreamWidth for LJ people. As it's basically the same stuff that's possible on both, much is a translation guide, ie Friends Page = Access List, plus the specific html is slightly different.

I post to DW and crosspost (almost) everything to LJ as a security thing, I still consider LJ my official place. I assure you, it won't be long before you're in the swing of things with DW :)

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

The guide's useful enough, although it doesn't address the first two DW-related questions I still need answered. Maybe I know someone who knows someone, though.

DW seems helpful enough, but in my experience, it's only helpful if I already know how to ask the questions.