boost: How To AO3

Monday, August 1st, 2022 10:16 am
jesse_the_k: barcode version of jesse_the_k (JK OpenID barcode)

Today I learned about the excellent fandom resource from [archiveofourown.org profile] ao3commentoftheday and [archiveofourown.org profile] memorizingthedigitsofpi

How to AO3

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1854832

as of 1 Aug 2022, the series includes

  • Tags for Beginners
  • How Tags Work
  • How to move a work to a secondary account
  • How to add a link anywhere
  • How to file an abuse report
  • Blocking on AO3
  • Blocking User or Work
  • How to get Dark Mode
  • Finding Fics
  • CSS snippets for Readers

as well as two unrevealed works. I can't wait!

What AO3 tools do you use?

jesse_the_k: Pixar's Dory, the adventurous fish with a brain injury (dain bramage)
ETA:
Wasn't that. But then I learned from

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-preferences-fix-problems?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Resetting+preferences

that I can do a "soft reset," which clears prefs without killing bookmarks & history. So I just did that.




I realized that if I blocked images from Twitter, I would find it much less appealing. And it worked!

But now I *do* want to see the images, and I can't figure out how to get them back.

I suspect I used display:block on images, but I don't see where I saved the setting.

It's not a custom style sheet.

The images do show on all my other browsers.

I'm using Firefox 61.0.2 in High Sierra on my Mac. The images don't load even when I turn off all extensions and restart, so I think it's in the app itself.

Any ideas?
jesse_the_k: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040204184222/http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1031.html">Bitmapped "dogcow" Apple Technote 1013, and appeared in many OS9 print dialogs</a> (dogcow from OS9)
As is evident from my previous post, I don't understand how to control how my photos appear.

What I want:


Text comments on the image, why or where taken, flush left (which is my default <p> style)

Image on its own, without any text, in a "thumbnail" style that's no more than 200 px wide, without any border, flush left

Paragraph of text that's a repeat of the "alt" image description, centered below the image.


How would I do this? If CSS, what does that look like?

If so, what do I use in place of the <img src="https://bogus-path-to-image.png" alt="detailed description"/> HTML image link?
jesse_the_k: The smoking pipe from Magritte's "Treachery of Images" itself captioned in French script "this is not a pipe" captioned "not an icon" (Default)

ETA: Yippee! [personal profile] susan came to my aid!

There are some teeny tweaks I'd like to make to my DW journal style. I've peeked at the code and my eyes cross.

So: would you care to create some "custom CSS" for me to my specification?

I would be delighted to pay you or make a donation to an org of your choosing.

I want four changes:

  1. remove tight letter spacing in the "navigation" module
  2. reduce the size of the headings & text/links in the sidebar
  3. true hanging indents for unordered <ol> lists
  4. true hanging indents for ordered <ul> lists

For my final question: when I make tweaks in my journal's colors, relative sizes, and module order, is there a way to save all that so I don't have to re-type it when I switch themes?

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