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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_news2009-05-07 12:10 am

Update: Seed Account Re-sale, Free Users + Custom Styles

Two things for you today!


Thing the first:

We have not been able to finish and fully test the new site functionality that enables people to purchase accounts without a PayPal account. Instead of finishing it up an hour before the first sale is scheduled and crossing our fingers that it works, we've decided to push the sale off another week.

The new time of the Seed Account re-sale is Thursday, May 14th, 9PM EDT and again at Friday, May 15th, 9AM EDT. In total 200 accounts will be available.


Thing the second:

People with free accounts have probably noticed that a few days ago we took away the Advanced Customization area of the site. (The pages that let you make a custom style.) We had never intended for it to be available unless you paid, and having it on was an oversight on our part. After we turned it off, we got to hear a lot of really good comments from people and we reevaluated the original decision.

We've turned it back on, but gave free users a pretty low limit on the number of styles you can create (1 custom style, up to 5 layers). Short story: you can once again go back to customizing and importing styles from other sites. Sorry for the trouble!
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[personal profile] charon 2009-05-07 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
Custom style for free accounts? Pretty awesome ... now I just need to remember how that works *lol*
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[personal profile] foxfirefey 2009-05-07 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
To be honest, for most stuff you shouldn't really need to use it unless you're importing a style from LJ based on core1 or know specifically what in the style you want to change.

In two weeks there's going to be a lot more CSS customized layouts based on a style called Tabula Rasa, which is in the last stages of finalization. In two months there's going to be more themes than you can shake a stick out.

Check out [community profile] dreamwidthlayouts for people displaying themes they've already made to share.