Well, as you should (I hope!) be able to see I have now finished customising my styles for the journal, friends, and archive sections of my LiveJournal. Trouble is it looks great within shepline but not so great within LJ itself…?!!!
I’ve used the following coding in global_head override:
<meta HTTP-EQUIV=”REFRESH” CONTENT = “5; URL=http://shepline.com/about/journal/index.htm”>
…but this leaves with the following problems:
a) it only redirects the journal page not my friends and calendar pages too
b) the page refreshes every 5 seconds
Can anyone suggest a way of redirecting my lj recent/friends and archive pages to ../about/journal ../about/friends and ../about/archive of www.shepline.com?
I’ve used the lazy/naughty method of creating a second style which contains a frames page which contains a single frame containing http://www.tinyjo.net/journal/ – this style is then selected from my modify journal page. The trick is that you don’t have to use the style that’s in use at http://www.livejournal.com/users/shepline for customview.cgi – they’ve completely independant.
Argg. Tired. What you need, for each view (using LASTN as an example) is
1) The custom style you’ve already got, which looks fine on your embedded page as shepline.com.
2) A second custom style for that view which in the LASTN_PAGE section contains only the text
<html>
<head>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV=”REFRESH” CONTENT = “5; URL=http://www.shepline.com/about/journal/index.htm”>
</head>
<body>
<p>You should be being redirected to <a href=”http://www.shepline.com/about/journal/index.htm”>my journal</a> in 5 seconds</p>
</body>
</html>
3) In the modify journal page (http://www.livejournal.com/modify.bml) select style 2 from the dropdown list for your LASTN style.
4) Remove the <meta HTTP-EQUIV=”REFRESH” CONTENT = “5; URL=http://www.shepline.com/about/journal/index.htm”> statement from the style you’re using on your embedded page.
The effect of this will be that anyone visiting http://www.livejournal.com/users/shepline will just be redirected straight to the appropriate page on shepline.com. Personally, I’d reduce the refresh time to 1 sec (or even 0 if possible) to make it seem more seamless, but that’s up to you.