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Weekly Help Desk Updates - July 18th, 2008

$hexentanz:iconhexentanz: reports, July 18
Welcome to the weekly Help Desk Updates. In these weekly updates we will attempt to bring you the most up to date news concerning the Help Desk & FAQ, as well as provide some helpful hints for super duper deviantART fun.

Free V6 Help

^Ikue:iconIkue: reports, July 11
Okay so if you haven't noticed V6 was launched late last night/early morning (depending on your time zone) to mixed reviews.

We as admins have had a little more time with it than the rest of the masses and as such I thought I would volunteer my knowledge with whomever is interested. Rather than complain that everything is different perhaps I can help show you how much more user friendly and easier the site is to navigate.

So... if you have a question concerning V6 please ask it. If you know of someone who is having troubles, please link them here. I will be updating this journal with your questions and hopefully answers to said questions.

Weekly Help Desk Updates - June 20th, 2008

$hexentanz:iconhexentanz: reports, June 20
Welcome to the weekly Help Desk Updates. In these weekly updates we will attempt to bring you the most up to date news concerning the Help Desk & FAQ, as well as provide some helpful hints for super duper deviantART fun.

Weekly Help Desk Updates - June 12th, 2008

$hexentanz:iconhexentanz: reports, June 12
Welcome to the weekly Help Desk Updates. In these weekly updates we will attempt to bring you the most up to date news concerning the Help Desk & FAQ, as well as provide some helpful hints for super duper deviantART fun.

Weekly Help Desk Updates - June 7th, 2008

$hexentanz:iconhexentanz: reports, June 7
Welcome to the weekly Help Desk Updates. In these weekly updates we will attempt to bring you the most up to date news concerning the Help Desk & FAQ, as well as provide some helpful hints for super duper deviantART fun.

Weekly Help Desk Updates - May 8th, 2008

$hexentanz:iconhexentanz: reports, May 8
Welcome to the weekly Help Desk Updates. In these weekly updates we will attempt to bring you the most up to date news concerning the Help Desk & FAQ, as well as provide some helpful hints for super duper deviantART fun.

Weekly Help Desk Updates - April 10th, 2008

$hexentanz:iconhexentanz: reports, April 10
Welcome to the weekly Help Desk Updates. In these weekly updates we will attempt to bring you the most up to date news concerning the Help Desk & FAQ, as well as provide some helpful hints for super duper deviantART fun.

Weekly Help Desk Updates - April 7th, 2008

$hexentanz:iconhexentanz: reports, April 7
Welcome to the weekly Help Desk Updates. In these weekly updates we will attempt to bring you the most up to date news concerning the Help Desk & FAQ, as well as provide some helpful hints for super duper deviantART fun.

Weekly Help Desk Updates - Mar 30th, 2008

$hexentanz:iconhexentanz: reports, March 30
Welcome to the weekly Help Desk Updates. In these weekly updates we will attempt to bring you the most up to date news concerning the Help Desk & FAQ, as well as provide some helpful hints for super duper deviantART fun.

Weekly Help Desk Updates - Mar 22nd, 2008

$hexentanz:iconhexentanz: reports, March 22
Welcome to the weekly Help Desk Updates. In these weekly updates we will attempt to bring you the most up to date news concerning the Help Desk & FAQ, as well as provide some helpful hints for super duper deviantART fun.

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Getting the most out of your CSS Journals Four

*Grayda:iconGrayda: reports, November 13, 2006
Welcome back! If you're wondering what happened the last two weeks, I decided to give the series a two-week break. Mostly to build up the ideas, but also to give your eyes a break. I doubt either worked, but on we shall press! If you want to read the other articles, check out Getting the most out of your CSS Journals! which has the list of the previous week's articles. With that out of the way, on we shall go!

Custom mood images
With dAv5 came a whole heap of new "Mood" icons, little animated dudes that you could set as your journal mood. However these weren't enough for most. If you could do your own custom emotes in journals (ie. using the :thumb: notation), or using :icon: to display 50x50 avatars, why could you not do your own custom mood images? With this simple CSS / HTML hack, you can! This simply involves laying our image over the top of our mood image. Here's the code:

HTML:


<img class="moodimage" />


CSS:

.moodimage{
position:absolute;
background-image:url(http:// ic3.deviantart .com/fs10/i/2006/127/a/5/_cityjump__by_Chimpantalones.gif);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
bottom:150px;
left:60px;

width:70px;
height:40px;
}

.list img {
position:relative;
left:-1000px;

height:40px;
width:70px;
}


There you have it! This is an extremely dirty hack.. because dA doesn't allow you to modify objects that are within another parent, there is no easy way to do this on dA. Just remember to tweak the values for your layout. It's best to use a fixed position (and width) layout for your mood box, so you get a consistent looking display of your custom layout. And don't forget to remove the spaces in the URLs to check out the demo, using "City Jump" by the Chimpantalones.

Always on top

Ever wanted a menu that will appear over all elements, and will remain in the same spot on the screen, even after you've scrolled down? Why not try the position:fixed; CSS attribute? This can be used to position an image over your journal, that will follow no matter where you scroll. Try this simple example:

HTML:

<div class="ontop">This is a slab of text that is always on top</div>

CSS:

.ontop {
height:auto;
width:100px;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
position:fixed;
top:0px;
left:0px;
padding:2%;
}


Remember this can be used for quite a few things. Menus, reminders, advertisements, fading of pages. Just be warned that if you abuse this service, and use it to cover advertisements, your entire page or whatever, you could be banned, and this feature removed. Use it sparingly, or preferably, not at all unless the situation warrants it. dA and it's millions of deviants will thank you.

Rounded corners for your journals

I keep forgetting to add this here, so please forgive me =Monkeyshack it's here now.. and thankyou so much!

If you want to have rounded corners in your journal's divs, then this is the code for you! Just click the link below, and check out this nifty CSS hack. Thanks so much to dev:Monkeyshack: for creating it, and =silverspider2005 for also suggesting it. Keep up the good work guys!

Check out Rounded CSS Corners by =Monkeyshack

CSS Journal features

Here we go again. More journal features. This time I'd like to start off with one I've missed:

*holymonk

Sporting a nice clean and uncluttered layout, *holymonk's journal is a good example of simplicity. The header adds a nice touch.

=Zikes

This journal is chock full of gadgets and features that makes this journal a pleasure to use (yes that's right, use, not just read ;) ). It has 4 selectable colour schemes (the inner workings of this is far beyond my knowledge), and menus, for added fun. Visit this journal, and marvel at how it was done. Do so before I work it out and release the idea here ;D

Get Yourself a CSS Journal (The Winners)

I know this isn't a proper journal per se, but this is rather a collection of winners and runners up from =duhcoolies's Get Yourself a CSS Journal contest. Need I say more? :D



And that concludes this week's article. If I have the time and stuff together, you can expect to see one next week. If not, then it will be back the week after that. And as always, if you have hacks and tips

Devious Comments

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`zetab:iconzetab: Nov 13, 2006, 7:13:13 AM
Thanks for this. Definitely going to be giving this another read later on. Really helpful stuff.

:heart:

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~pickupjojo:iconpickupjojo: Nov 13, 2006, 3:09:47 PM
Thank you, very useful! :)

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=savagebinn:iconsavagebinn: Nov 13, 2006, 3:13:11 PM Mood: Love
Thank you for making these. The CSS journal I have now is still very plain, but someday I hope to make a really fancy one and articles like this are a big help. :)

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^misskittyoooo:iconmisskittyoooo: Nov 13, 2006, 3:35:28 PM
EEE =D Rounded corners yay!
Thanks so much =D

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*Grayda:iconGrayda: Nov 13, 2006, 5:15:04 PM
Thankyou very much! I also wanna say that I'm a secret fan of your art. Especially your photography works. I've been meaning to :+devwatch: you for a while, but just haven't got around to it. I'm watching `nyssi and often see your work featured in her journals and stuff.. just thought I'd mention it while I got the chance.

And thanks again!

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*Grayda:iconGrayda: Nov 13, 2006, 5:17:30 PM
Tank ye! Hope one day you can get some use out of this, or get some use on your personal website!

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*Grayda:iconGrayda: Nov 13, 2006, 5:19:31 PM
You're welcome! (Awesome gallery btw ;))

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*Grayda:iconGrayda: Nov 13, 2006, 5:20:27 PM
I'd love to see it when it's done! I just love looking at other's CSS journals and seeing what can be done :)

Best of luck!

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*Grayda:iconGrayda: Nov 13, 2006, 5:21:26 PM
You're welcome! I've had that deviation sitting in my notes for weeks now, and just simply forgot to feature it. So now it is, and I'm sure lots will find it useful :D

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