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[gremdark]

Fiddling around with Dreamwidth features is still underway, but I'm learning stuff! Now that I'm more familiar with the interface, I really like it. For one thing, it keeps rewarding me for experimental settings-manipulation in the way all the best websites do. 
As of this evening, the links in my profile work! And there's a GIF at the top of this post, which demonstrates my awe-inspiring ability to embed media! (Thank you AO3 and Purimgifts specifically for significantly truncating that learning curve) Next I'll see if I can make a cut happen.

Okay, this is kind of perplexing me. Maybe it'll work when I post it and maybe I'll dig through tutorials tomorrow.
Also tomorrow, I want to try to give my journal a header that'll go with the purple theme it's got going on.
I peer-pressured zanzquest into making an account, though it's still unclear whether I'll be able to convince her to do Battleship with me. And I've got around 50% of a fill for Summer of the 69, which, if I hurry, could be the year's first fill!

Oh, does this text show up below the cut? Confusion rescinded. This slaps, actually.

Comments

[sanguinity]

Hurrah! Such a joy to see someone making the jump from tumblr to DW and enjoying the interface! Welcome!

Re pangolin20's observation that you can use a series of cuts to make a table of contents: cuts don't appear on the page for the individual entry, so if you're doing a cut-tag TOC for a long post you're gonna link somewhere (say, an exchange letter!), you can either link the DATE the entry was made (which will link all your posts made on that day with the cut-tags intact, but if there was only one post that day, there will be no confusion about which post you meant), or you can use details/summary tags, which can only be added in HTML view but which do remain folded in all versions of the post unless manually unfolded. (See W3Schools for the HTML for details/summary tags.)

Here, let me find you some examples of what I mean:

• Post linked by the date, cut-tags intact
  
• Post linked by the individual entry, cut-tags unfolded (but bold-face pseudo-headings put inside each cut-tag so it's less confusing in unfolded format)
  
• A book review using the details/summary tag to hide a spoiler (in the part about Bujold's Memory), which remains folded/hidden even when linking to the individual post.

Since you mentioned me...

[pangolin20]

Thanks for expanding on my advice! For the type of posts I mentioned, I think putting in headings to correspond to the cuts is a good idea even if you expect people to reach the post from page view. It may be a bit of an extreme example, but I've made a quite large index of a community with such a cut TOC, and I've put in quite large headings for each cut, lest people lose their way.

For the details tag, you can also add "style="cursor:pointer"" to show that the details tag is clickable, as it doesn't show up like that by default. (Dreamwidth does have an issue for this, so it may well be changed soon, but in the meantime, this is a good fix.)

Re: Since you mentioned me...

[sanguinity]

Yes, I'm a big fan of putting headings inside the cut-tags for organizational purposes. (Assuming the cut tags were added for organizational purposes in the first place, that is!) And just in general, it's good to remember that people coming directly to the post will never see the link/descriptive text for the cut-tag: it's often a good idea to repeat that info inside the cut, if it somehow contributes to the understanding of that material.

And thank you for the additional code for the details tag! I've heard that people struggled with knowing that it's clickable; I didn't know that the cursor was part of the problem.

Re: Since you mentioned me...

[pangolin20]

In the case I'm most familiar with (using the cut text as a kind of "whisper space" for book reviews), I don't put it in the post itself, but I do put it in the TOC/index, where I enclose it in square brackets to indicate that it's the cut text. It's been exceedingly helpful to keep posts apart if there'd otherwise just be "Chapter 10", "Chapter 11" and so forth!

I've heard that people struggled with knowing that it's clickable; I didn't know that the cursor was part of the problem.

It does show up as clickable when navigating with the tab key, I see, but since most people will be using the cursor to navigate, I presume that that causes confusion (or not knowing that you can click the text in addition to the little arrow?).

Re: Since you mentioned me...

[sanguinity]

You can click the text, too? *experiments* Huh, so you can. Learn something new every day, thank you!

Re: Since you mentioned me...

[pangolin20]

Glad to have shown that, then!