Uglified update.bml

[afuna_archive]

I've been lurking around news/lj_design/lj_releases, hoping for any news that the userpic has been dragged back down to the bottom by sheer force of gravity, if nothing else. I even made a couple of comments saying that having the userpic at the top seriously disrupts my workflow (I tried to stop myself, honestly I did).

Then I realized that I didn't need to wait for the powers that be to change their minds; I could work on my own solution. So in between studying for my polsci long test and studying for my theo quiz, I tried my hand at modifying update.bml and I came up what has to be the world's ugliest update.bml page ever. And it only really works for me because I don't think that anyone else wants to lose their music and location fields, or to have their mood icon preview and userpic preview side by side.





But see, I don't care! AHAHAHA.

I have a list of tags! I can change my icon without having to scroll up! Everything that I need is right where I need it, and life is good.

Welcome to my world, my personally tweaked update.bml. Bless your ugly little Greasemonkied face heart.

I could move the music and location fields to the right instead of removing them entirely, but right now that's more trouble than it's worth, considering that I don't ever use them. For me, they're icing on the pudding -- that is to say, don't like, don't use, don't need.

Oh and I still feel guilty over the screenscraping involved in fetching those tags so still not making the (tag-related) code public until I've added even a tiny measure against overdoing that. Unless I don't need to. Gah! Help!

Comments

[afuna]

Nothing very good for the Mac XD Also, I always have Firefox open, so it's easier for me to load update.bml (my homepage :D), than it is for me to open a new application *g*

[pastles.livejournal.com]

i use the Mac update clients too. it's easier for me. I also prefer using the clients because you can use the shortcut keys

[afuna]

Mwaha at your icon!

Anything to recommend? The last time I checked, I was frustrated by the quality of the clients that I could find, but that was maybe half a year ago.

[pastles.livejournal.com]

I use xjournal. I find it adequate for what i need. but I realised that it doesn't have a tags list. it has a field for you to enter the tags, but not a pull down list

[afuna]

Oh ;_;

(Cannot live without my (improvised) tags list XD)

[pastles.livejournal.com]

yeah

(haha i realise. it's fine for me because i don't usually tag my entries anyways)

[afuna]

(XD I love tags. I don't know why, but I do. I once went through a stage where I tried to go back through my old entries and make sure that everything was tagged. Gave up after a year's worth or so of entries, but I have tried to tag everything since then. Sometimes forgot to because of the lack of a tagslist in update.bml, but now that that's fixed I have no more excuse :D)