# help please with live journal

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by mysticrain (Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.) on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2008 20:15:34

Hi,
I just joined live journal, and posted my first entry. But, I can't figure out how to use the LJ-Cut. I read the FAQ which give directions for both rich text and html. I'm just using rich text, but I don't see the LJ-Cut button anywhere on the page. Please, if anyone knows how to do this, let me know?
Thanks.
Jen

## Post 2 by Don'tBlaisMeBro (Folle et simple est la brebis qui au loup se confesse.) on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2008 20:30:24

Jen:
I can give you the manual HTML to make your LJ cuts, however I am positively miffed on how to use the LJ-cut buttons on the 'post an entry' page—truthfully, I've been too set in my ways to play with the rich text feature.
Less sign followed by lj-cut text="example text here" followed by a greater sign.
Closing your cut:
Less sign slash lj-cut.
It'd look like this if it was in your entry.
&LT;lj-cut text="Grocery list">
1. Butter.
2. Eggs.
3. Water.
&LT;/lj-cut>
I hope this helped some.

## Post 3 by mysticrain (Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.) on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2008 20:35:46

Thank you. I don't know html. In order to use the html editor, will I need to type anything else in order to show my text both before the cut and after?
Thanks again.
Jen

## Post 4 by mysticrain (Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.) on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2008 20:50:04

ok, I tried it, and it worked. Thank you so much for your help. &LT;smile>
Jen

## Post 5 by mysticrain (Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.) on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2008 20:53:34

I have another question for anyone who can help. Does anyone know how to make the pages show each entry as a separate heading? I've seen it on another lj page, and I'd love to do that for easy navigation.
Thanks
Jen

## Post 6 by mysticrain (Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.) on Thursday, 10-Apr-2008 18:47:55

sorry, but yet another question, &LT;smile> if anyone knows how to do this. I was wondering how I can add my friends to a group after I've already added them to my friends list? I forgot to organize them when I did it.
Thanks.
Jen

## Post 7 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Thursday, 10-Apr-2008 22:17:26

Hiya.
If you go back to each add a friend page, you can check checkboxes to add them to groups. I.E., if you added them as a friend already, click on the "add this user to your friends list" link again from their profile, and when it takes you to the page, check the checkboxes for the groups you want them to be in. You can also customize groups with all of the LJ clients, but it's kind of hard/complicated.
Good luck!
P.S. About the entries as separate headings query, you can probably do that by using a different layout. Unfortunately, I don't know which layouts work best with headings. You might ask at
www.livejournal.com/users/blindpeople
, since there are tons of blind LJers in one place there.
Hope this helps! Take care!
Caitlin :-)

## Post 8 by jmbauer (Technology's great until it stops working.) on Thursday, 10-Apr-2008 22:45:32

It's the "clean and simple" style.

## Post 9 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 12-Apr-2008 1:59:04

Might I add that it's disgraceful how much crap clutters the LJ page nowadays? Remember when it was beautiful and clean by default? Gosh.

## Post 10 by mysticrain (Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.) on Sunday, 13-Apr-2008 19:03:13

Thanks caitlin! It worked like a charm, the friends groups I mean.
As for the headings, I tried the clean and simple style, but that wasn't it. I'll try to contact that group to see if they can suggest anything.
Thanks again everyone for all your help.
Jen

## Post 11 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Sunday, 13-Apr-2008 19:20:18

Keep us posted, if you don't mind. You never know when we'll all need to fix our journals, too. I'm curious which styles are the easiest to use. I think I'm using Movable Squares or whatever...is it flexible squares? Lol something like that. You might try that one.

## Post 12 by silly_singer (The girl who's always lost in a melody) on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2008 17:11:55

I use magazine and like it a lot