Friends page customisation
How can I get my friends page to look like my recent page? How can I get it to look different to my recent page?
LiveJournal has 4 page views:
Most Recent, Friends, Calendar & Day View.
On the Modify page, you will need to make sure all the available styles are set to the same style for each page if you want them to be the same layout.
In your overrides, LJ uses the following:LASTN - your recent entries page
FRIENDS - your friends page
DAY - a page of entries for a specific day
CALENDAR - your calendar, obviously
If you use a LASTN_HEAD, everything within it would show up on your recent page. The same goes for if you used a LASTN_WEBSITE link for example. So to get the same on your friends page you need to make a FRIENDS_* view. To get a different view, you'd use a FRIENDS_* code, but insert different attributes into it.
A GLOBAL_HEAD contains overrides that will affect ALL these 4 page views. You can read more about that here. If you use GLOBAL_HEAD and another *_HEAD, the GLOBAL_HEAD will override whatever you've put in the other *_HEAD if it's the same attribute i.e. use one or the other, OR only use your GLOBAL_HEAD for things you want on all 4 pages.
If you put the same override in your GLOBAL_HEAD and your LASTN_HEAD but with a different attribute e.g. if you put a font override of 8pt in your GLOBAL_HEAD, and 12pt in your LASTN_HEAD, it won't work because GLOBAL_HEAD will override LASTN_HEAD - so your font will be set to 8pt. If you put a font override in the GLOBAL_HEAD, but different link colours in a LASTN_HEAD to a FRIENDS_HEAD, they will work because there won't be anything about links in the GLOBAL_HEAD to override them.
The GLOBAL_HEAD's purpose is to save you making 4 different page layouts (LASTN/FRIENDS/DAY/CALENDAR).
Just remember that changing the word won't suffice: if you change the word LASTN to FRIENDS, you will have everything within the code show up on your FRIENDS page and not your LASTN page. It's just replacing it. You need to copy and paste the section of overrides and then change LASTN to whatever it is you want. That way you will have a set of LASTN_* overrides and a set of FRIENDS_*, DAY_* and CALENDAR_* etc.
If you have comment links on your recent page, you can again have them on your friends and day pages by changing the word LASTN to FRIENDS or DAY respectively.
n.b. LASTN_* refers to whatever override you are using e.g. HEAD, WEBSITE, TALK_LINKS etc.
This table may also help make things clearer.
LiveJournal has 4 page views:
Most Recent, Friends, Calendar & Day View.
On the Modify page, you will need to make sure all the available styles are set to the same style for each page if you want them to be the same layout.
In your overrides, LJ uses the following:
If you use a LASTN_HEAD, everything within it would show up on your recent page. The same goes for if you used a LASTN_WEBSITE link for example. So to get the same on your friends page you need to make a FRIENDS_* view. To get a different view, you'd use a FRIENDS_* code, but insert different attributes into it.
A GLOBAL_HEAD contains overrides that will affect ALL these 4 page views. You can read more about that here. If you use GLOBAL_HEAD and another *_HEAD, the GLOBAL_HEAD will override whatever you've put in the other *_HEAD if it's the same attribute i.e. use one or the other, OR only use your GLOBAL_HEAD for things you want on all 4 pages.
If you put the same override in your GLOBAL_HEAD and your LASTN_HEAD but with a different attribute e.g. if you put a font override of 8pt in your GLOBAL_HEAD, and 12pt in your LASTN_HEAD, it won't work because GLOBAL_HEAD will override LASTN_HEAD - so your font will be set to 8pt. If you put a font override in the GLOBAL_HEAD, but different link colours in a LASTN_HEAD to a FRIENDS_HEAD, they will work because there won't be anything about links in the GLOBAL_HEAD to override them.
The GLOBAL_HEAD's purpose is to save you making 4 different page layouts (LASTN/FRIENDS/DAY/CALENDAR).
Just remember that changing the word won't suffice: if you change the word LASTN to FRIENDS, you will have everything within the code show up on your FRIENDS page and not your LASTN page. It's just replacing it. You need to copy and paste the section of overrides and then change LASTN to whatever it is you want. That way you will have a set of LASTN_* overrides and a set of FRIENDS_*, DAY_* and CALENDAR_* etc.
If you have comment links on your recent page, you can again have them on your friends and day pages by changing the word LASTN to FRIENDS or DAY respectively.
n.b. LASTN_* refers to whatever override you are using e.g. HEAD, WEBSITE, TALK_LINKS etc.
This table may also help make things clearer.