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tutorial: Phone personal keyboard shortcuts

Want to tag while on the go but find messing around with HTML to be a pain? Here is a tutorial on how to create shortcuts on various mobile OSes and a list of helpful shortcuts!

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tutorial: joining, tracking, and posting to communities

Before you join a game or other comm on Dreamwidth, you will see the following menu in the navigation strip at the top of the main journal page:

You can find these same options linked on the comm's profile page.

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link list: Finding Icons

Here is a list of places where you can find icons or a PB for your characters:

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link: Automated Word Count Tracker

This word count tracker automatically tabulates word counts by day and month and puts the totals on the totals page so you can see how much you've written for tags and other purposes. See the instructions on the first sheet for details.

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template: the emoji meme (an alternative to the hearts meme)

- post a blank comment for your character with their name in the subject line

- reply to other characters using the appropriate emojis

- customize the text, if you wish

- feel free to create your own!

- E M O T I O N S

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More Advanced HTML Code Tricks

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Meme Codes

Interested in posting memes on your musebox for people to tag into? Here's a list of links to memes you can post! ( Read more... )

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tutorial: Uploading Images

Dreamwidth has storage on each account for up to 500mb of images. It's best to upload JPGs rather than PNGs if you want to maximize your space, as the file size is smaller. However, for RP purposes this is usually plenty of space. ( Read more... )

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link: Tessisamess's (Edited) Automated Thread Tracker

I love Tessisamess's Automated Thread Tracker and have linked it on this comm before; however, I have created an edit of it for my own needs that include more tracking that I find useful and I wanted to offer it up for anyone else who might want it. ( Read more... )

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Firefox extensions for RP

A lot of people are making the leap from Chrome and other browsers to Firefox for privacy and security reasons. I personally have made this switch, and being a heavy user of browser extensions I've also found several that help make RP easier.
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tutorial: Site beta composer

As mentioned in the Dreamwidth site tutorial, I recommend using the beta composer. Here's a tutorial for all the features in the composer so you can take advantage of all its features.
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tutorial: Gmail Tips & Tricks

A lot of people who RP on DW like to use Gmail for their email service so that they can use Gmail's automatic label function to sort their characters and games via automatic labeling. This tutorial includes tips originally found on Vivi's tutorial that was written some years ago, but the screenshots include Gmail's updated look and feel, and also includes other tips for functions I personally use to sort my incoming RP emails.

The following tricks can only be done on desktop. I looked for a way to do it on mobile and couldn't find a way.
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code: Killthecake's Information Booth code

Use this code to house all the information you might want people to learn when they come to your character journal: application data, character permissions, character inventory, and more!

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