thrashmetal is on indefinite hiatus.I won't be answering questions or responding to comments; comments on the FAQ post have been disabled. Here's a tip: many of your problems can be fixed by going through all the Customize Journal Style settings.

Thank you for your understanding, and I hope to be back soon.

Please keep in mind that only PAID Dreamwidth users can create layers now, aka massive layout cockblock. I'm playing around with the CSS styles there and will be setting up thrashmetal's mirror on DW when everything's ready.*

CLICK HERE FOR THE TUTORIAL
*LJ-only layouts will stay here. Unless Smooth Sailing is ported over to DW, all of those layouts will continue to be posted in this community. The only layouts that will be posted on DW are ones that will only work on DW's style system. I'll post a link when everything's ready. :)

Honestly I shouldn't be posting this at all, because it: a) has absolutely nothing to do with CSS/my code, and b) it's not my theme layer. Nevertheless, I get so many questions about this that I think I should just link to the tutorial I used and be done with it.

This tutorial will teach you (Paid users) how to make your metadata like this:
It's from a Flexisquares comm, but it works just fine with Smooth Sailing and Expressive, and probably most of the other styles as well.

CLICK HERE FOR THE TUTORIAL

A tutorial for achieving the effect I have used in my journal. This should work in all browsers. However, please note that I have only tested this hack with Life's a Spectrum -- if it doesn't work with other Expressive/Mixit layouts, it's up to you to adjust it as needed. I'm in the middle of end-of-semester project mire and don't really have the time or energy to offer CSS help.

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