Site skins

[krytella]

 Does anyone in my circle have advice about getting a sure skin that actually works for mobile? Or even a comm or anywhere I can ask questions short of opening a support ticket. I’m using the Lynx skin and on mobile Safari my reading page has a narrow column of text on the left and the icon on the right with no text wrapped below it. This makes posts hard to read, and if the post itself has indented paragraphs I end up with

one

word

per

line 

because the text space is so narrow. I get the same behavior with the default skin, and I thought switching should fix it :(

Example of how this post looks:

Comments

[nerakrose]

Do you mean a theme for your journal? I use mobility for mine because it's designed specifically for mobile. It's ugly as fuck, but can be modified to look nicer. I use a blend of dw's own edit theme function + some css code for the stuff that the edit theme page can't do.

Eta: here's how your post looks on my reading page on iPhone 5s:

[krytella]

Oh, I thought it would have to be a site skin because of this from the themes page: “This will set the look and style of your journal. If you'd like to change the way the main site pages look instead, you can do this at the "Site Skin" option on the Manage Settings page.”

[krytella]

So it looks like I’d have to create a custom theme based on Mobility? There’s nothing with a name including “mobility” when I search for themes in my journal settings...

[krytella]

Haha figures it out, there are two themes in the mobility family. I switched to one of them and finally a readable reading page! Obviously the next answer is to add my own...

[nerakrose]

No no, it's a theme that already exists that you can find in customise style. Organise -> customise style -> box on the right side of the screen which says 'krytella's current theme': click 'select new theme'. Then in the search field for themes put 'mobility'. It comes in two colou schemes, a beige and a blue, but you can change those colours on the previous page in the customise your theme section.

Re: site skin, that only affects the look of the dw pages that aren't your journal, like the home page. The standard is grey and red, but there are other colour schemes and looks. Your journal theme will affect your journal and what your reading page looks like. (And in settings you can make it so that you view other people's entry pages in your journal style instead of their own or the site skin.)

[krytella]

Update: I finally found one guide on using DreamWidth on mobile, though it still involves a bunch of mobile browser customization: https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/8908.html