Dreamwidth

[melodysparks]

You know what? I thgink I am going to open a Dreamwidth account and have my photos on there.

I will use the same username and icon.

Anyone recommend communities.

ANd who would like me to add them as friends in there?

Comments

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

I'm sgamadison over there too. I find it much harder to upload photos to DW because you *must* have a url or some sort of storage account--but since you already upload to flickr, that shouldn't be a problem.

Word of warning though--I haven't figured out how to load original pix without having to resize them first before I put them on flickr or photobucket. You can resize things on LJ after you've uploaded but before you post. DW doesn't seem to have that option.

Coding is based on LJ's but is just different enough that it gives me problems from time to time. I usually have to switch to html mode to see how something is coded if I want to try and repeat that effort somewhere else. :-)

You can set it up to cross post to LJ, however, which is a nice feature. LJ won't let you do that. And you can import your LJ journal over there too, so you'll have all your previous posts up. If you want to import more than 15 icons, however, you have to buy a paid DW account.

At first I kept forgetting to post there, but now I post *from* there and can respond to comments at either location. There aren't as many coms and I find it much quieter than LJ. Honestly, I think it would have done okay if everyone hadn't moved to tumblr instead of DW...

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Wow importing would help a lot. How do you do that?

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

On your settings page, there is a series of links on the left column. 'import content' is one of them. Click and provide your livejournal URL.

If you don't have a paid DW account, you can only import 15 icons--but if you have a paid account, they should import your journal and pictures, etc. You have to click on some choices, but basically my DW account mirrors my LJ, and now that I (mostly) cross post from DW, the content is duplicated. :-)

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

I did it and crossposted. I just have to edit my LJ icons then import those too.

Thank you

[daisychains1957]

I am on DW under the same name but don't find it as easy to use as LJ. I'm finding it hard to source decent comms though as most of mine are fandom ones. Having said that give it a go, if you don't like it you can always delete - or just not use it :)

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

I will look you up

[danceswithgary]

I'm danceswithgary on DW and if you need help coding the photo posts let me know because I've figured out the html that will work for posting to DW and crossposting to LJ.

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Thank you

[fangedsekhmet.livejournal.com]

Over there with the same name. I don't actually use the DW interface much because I use Semagic to post to LJ and DW at the same time, you might like to look into that as it's a little easier to work (I find) than either site's posting pages.

My only bugbear with DW is trying to get a paid account. They got bounced from Paypal and other places because they wouldn't censor themselves and certain people complained, so I think a credit card is necessary. That's why I've yet to make a full switch, that and some of my favourite comms are over there.

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

I wont be getting a paid account just yet got to try it out first and sort out crossposting and importing