DreamWidth is amazing!

[fantastic_jackie]

Dude. I have a free account, and I can customize it out the wazoo WITHOUT having to use CSS. All colors, all headers, images INSIDE the page, header images - all WITHOUT CSS! And if I do want to get into the CSS, I can do stuff like add fonts!!

Thus far, the only thing I can't do is have a custom mood theme! And that's going to change when I upgrade to the paid.

Suffice it to say that it's going to take me a while to get my page set. I have to create a new banner...

So it's messy at the moment, but my new journal over at DW is fantastic_jackie. I decided to get rid of the Patriot because I'm extremely frustrated with politics, and I no longer want to be defined by them. I will probably change my name here eventually, too.

The Fantastic stands for four things: Fantasy, aka writing/reading, FANdom, being a fantastic gamer (it's an overstatement), and just being a fantastic person - again, an overstatement, because I actually think I'm rather average and plain. :) I feel like the form of overstated humor describes me better than the hastily chosen political name I've had these last few years.

As a serious note to anyone who isn't thinking about DW, check it out and give it a chance. LJ has stagnated; DW is genuinely a better site with regards to technical stuff. On a friends level, of course LJ has the edge because you guys are here. But seriously, do you remember how much customization LJ used to have? Imagine getting all that back and more. Plus you can stay connected to LJ through crossposts and feeds. I say this strictly as a customer comparing two products: like when I chose to go with the iPhone through AT&T and not Verizon, it's simply the better product.

Comments

[mrstater.livejournal.com]

But you don't get as many userpics with a free DW account...

[patriot-jackie.livejournal.com]

Nope. Only 15, though it's still an improvement over the LJ Free model which is 6. But with the paid account, which I will be getting, it's back to the standard 100, or you can even have 250 if you go up the next level. I haven't seen voice posts on DW either... I may have skipped over them, but even so, I never used mine anyway. - Although that one voice post meme years back when everyone read their fics was pretty cool.

[yappichick]

Nope, no voice posts. Or scrapbook. Denise has made reference to why on various posts.

*cough* I may be one of those people with 250 icons *cough*

[scorpiozero.livejournal.com]

I'm very much impressed by it. I like it. Might have to jump ship.