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Krazykiwi. wrote: "Themis-Athena wrote: "Thanks, much appreciated -- that'll at least take care of the basic things! Now I'll just need to find a way to make this (scroll down to "Reader, look not on his Picture" and..."Yes, that's sort of like the workaround for IE6 and the older versions of Firefox that I'm using on my website as well. Thanks again! Will tinker with this when I have some time and then report the results.
Zafia wrote: "Do any of you have any idea what and where I should write the code to get the entire shelf box transparent.?http://zafia.booklikes.com/shelf
I managed to get my box transparent on my blog page, b..."
I think you want to style the class .shelf-menu (or div.shelf-menu).
try
div.shelf-menu {opacity: 0.5;}
in your global custom css (the box on the customization page, at the bottom on the left), it should give you a 50% transparency. If I got the right class, you can tweak it from there :)
Jennifer (Cogito, ergo sum) wrote: "My main problem is that I can't have StyleBot because I'm on an iPad. I made the mistake of spending 9 bucks on Textastic, only to find that one has to have a PhD in HTML coding in order to use it."Can you use Firefox? Or does that not work, either?
Zafia wrote: "@ I ♥ Bookie NookieThat's because BL assigns x amount to a new account. You can just unfollow them."
I'd keep BookLikes as a follow, though, as that's site announcements, new features, etc.
I guess I'm the only one not impressed by Booklikes customer service - I shot them a note on Friday saying I knew their servers were being taxed and all but my import has been saying "14 more hours" for about 36 hours (which I found out afterward is pretty common). I never got an answer. This morning I had a notification - and then a duplicate - that my import was complete. And I'm a little sick about it. I see 100% green generic covers; most of my shelves seem relatively intact, but the exclusive shelves are decimated (182 Read, 146 Planning to read, 2 Currently reading - ??) Oh, I take it back. My shelves are present, but also decimated. Like, for example, my "11th century" one. On GR I have four books on it. BL, one. And I was wrong about the percentage of green covers; some books do have covers. A cover. All the same cover. This one:
'Scuse me while I go cry in my tea and try to decide whether to delete everything and start from scratch...
Susanna wrote: "Zafia wrote: "@ I ♥ Bookie NookieThat's because BL assigns x amount to a new account. You can just unfollow them."
I'd keep BookLikes as a follow, though, as that's site announcements, new featur..."
i did...
and I chose to "sync" my GR and Booklikes - so when I post to GR it goes to BL - maybe I am wrong about that??? but it's not syncing.
No, the synch works the other way, if it's on. BL to GR.
Susanna wrote: "No, the synch works the other way, if it's on. BL to GR."well shit...
Krazykiwi. wrote: "try div.shelf-menu {opacity: 0.5;} "
I just want the box gone but the contents intact like I have on my blog page where there is no box for the amount of books thingy.
The code above also made the contents less visible, so that's not gonna work
I ♥ Bookie Nookie wrote: "Susanna wrote: "No, the synch works the other way, if it's on. BL to GR."well shit..."
That's why I have it off.
Ellelou wrote: "Hahaha...is it weird that I kind of anticipated your reaction? Does that make me evil? Mwahahahah.... "
Hahahah, no...that makes you hilarious! :D I actually LOL'd ...OUT LOUD!
Susanna wrote: "No, the synch works the other way, if it's on. BL to GR."are you sure? that doesn't make sense... it seems like if that were the case, I would have had to sync from GR not BL
I'm pretty sure; but not positive, as I'm not using the feature. (Just judging by comments of those who are.)
Susanna wrote: "I'm pretty sure; but not positive, as I'm not using the feature. (Just judging by comments of those who are.)"well, it wasn't working either way...lol... I will have to look at it more in depth later.
I read the instructions to add a picture, however it did't work. Nothing happened. Obviously I did it wrong. lol
Sync is from BL to GR---
Wee I got it working, Krazykiwi - Thanks.
With your "div.shelf-menu {opacity: 0.5;}"
I got it working only with "div.shelf-menu {
background-color: transparent;
} "
Tracey, turning blue waiting for a sitewide announcement wrote: "I guess I'm the only one not impressed by Booklikes customer service - I shot them a note on Friday saying I knew their servers were being taxed and all but my import has been saying "14 more hours..."Tracey, that's the placeholder for editions they cannot recognise. If you can find your import list (settings->import->import list, or follow the link from "import finished" e-mail), you will find the list of books from your .csv. They are still there, but they won't appear on the shelf until the existing edition is set. Click "change" button to the right and search for the title to get what they have.
Yeah, it takes work. I have about 150 to work on. But it's better than I expected - I thought they might not recognise some at all.
Re-importing will do nothing.
Helen wrote: "Re-importing will do nothing...."Yeah, I didn't really think so; it was a vague hope that the overtaxed servers botched the job and trying again later might help. What I actually meant by starting from scratch was to enter each book manually. But ... 330 books out of 5026 (when the import page says they all came over), and ... I just scrolled through about 15 pages on the import page, and literally 1 in 50 books has its correct cover. Everything else is green or "Therapie". 98% of 5026 = far more work than I'm willing or able to do right now.
Tracey, turning blue waiting for a sitewide announcement wrote: "Helen wrote: "Re-importing will do nothing...."Yeah, I didn't really think so; it was a vague hope that the overtaxed servers botched the job and trying again later might help. What I actually me..."
I skipped the green covers - I just focused on "Therapie" for now so I could check the numbers and have the books on their rightful shelves. I'll bother with editions...later, when there is time. If ever.
Zafia wrote: "Sync is from BL to GR---
Wee I got it working, Krazykiwi - Thanks.
With your "div.shelf-menu {opacity: 0.5;}"
I got it working only with "div.shelf-menu {
background-color: transparent;
} ""
Oh great that you fixed it! Usually the hardest part is figuring out what class to put the style on, at least for me it is.
One thing I've noticed today is how incredibly slow BL is to add books to one's library. So far, BL has not added a book I've tried to add to my library there. VERY FRUSTRATING. 
Krazykiwi. wrote: "Oh great that you fixed it! Usually the hardest part is figuring out what class to put the style on, at least for me it is."I couldn't have done it without your div shelf thingy. And I'm so not into all of the Css. I just know how to fiddle and read instructions lol.
I also managed to change my font color so its visible with what my dark background and transparent box.
I think I'm done for now, unless someone has managed to make a spoiler button?
//edited typos.
I mark my reviews "spoiler alert" (under the checkmark for "review").
How do I edit / delete a review? I think it's been mentioned before, but since this whole experience is making me feel very stupid, perhaps a kind soul might take pity on me? :-)
How do I edit / delete a review? I think it's been mentioned before, but since this whole experience is making me feel very stupid, perhaps a kind soul might take pity on me? :-)
I hit "edit" on the upper right hand side of the review. (Is useful when I forget tag. Which I do a lot.)
No problem. (It's nice just knowing the answer!)
Zafia wrote: "I think I'm done for now, unless someone has managed to make a spoiler button?"There are three tutorials on tagging and hiding spoilers (so far):
http://helenthehermit.booklikes.com/p...
http://batgrl.booklikes.com/post/4534...-
http://pagefault.booklikes.com/post/4...-
I just wanted one that makes the code either show or popup in my review text. I already got a spoiler in place.
Zafia wrote: "I just wanted one that makes the code either show or popup in my review text. I already got a spoiler in place."There's an instruction how to create popups here: http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/pop...
It's what I used to code this (mouse over the picture in the top left-hand corner of the page to see what I mean). I'm thinking about writing a popup tutorial for BookLikes on that basis, but probably won't get around to it until in a couple of days.
I have a question about importing books. At first I tried adding my books manually, but it's proved to be overwhelming. Can I use the auto import now without deleting everything (including shelves) I've already entered on BL, or will I have to delete everything I've done?
Helen wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Helen wrote: "Terry wrote: "I noticed something weird today after checking my shelves and trying to synch the BL version of 'favourites' with my GR shelf of the same name. It look..."I understand your instructions, but I cannot edit the reviews from that table. I can only see them. How can I find MY review of a particular book on a screen that lets me edit the review?
One thing that's annoying with the synchronization. Seems that a lot of my GR reviews have lost their formatting.
Chrissie wrote: "Helen wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Helen wrote: "Terry wrote: "I noticed something weird today after checking my shelves and trying to synch the BL version of 'favourites' with my GR shelf of the same..."Yeah, I don't know why you cannot edit your review on the blog...
See the small bar at the top of the screen that goes "Dashboard-Blog-Shelf-Timeline"? You have to go to "Blog" (this get's you to your blog's dashboard, as opposed to friends feed), and scroll down until you find your review. Then hover to the left of the rating so the "edit" button will pop up.
Yeah, it's a pain.
@Ian All of my reviews lost formatting too.
Ian wrote: "Zafia wrote: "I'm interested Ian, looks nice."Below is the code I used....you can replace the quotes with whatever you like. 225px as the width seems about right for the sidebar, but you can cha..."
I wrote a little tutorial based on the code you posted: http://themisathena.booklikes.com/pos...
Thanks again for supplying the code in the first place!
Well, I can testify that the sync works both ways. I'd decided not to add a cover for a book I'm currently reading (being on strike and all), but I did add it to BL - and >poof<. *disables sync*Okay, I apologize if someone's already said this (if so, a message # would be awesome), but: can we add or correct a description to a book that already exists on BL? I don't see an edit button.
Tracey, turning blue waiting for a sitewide announcement wrote: "Well, I can testify that the sync works both ways..."Are you sure? It states somewhere on BL that the sync doesn't work GR to BL, only BL to GR.
I wonder - if I E-mail BL and supply the colour codes I want used, do you think someone there can fix my blog up for me? Otherwise I might do as a friend suggested, and just have a Wordpress blog that is hosted on BL.
Sock Poppet Fishy Wishy wrote: "Tracey, turning blue waiting for a sitewide announcement wrote: "Well, I can testify that the sync works both ways..."Are you sure? It states somewhere on BL that the sync doesn't work GR to BL, ..."
Positive. Unless someone else coincidentally added the cover onto GR at the exact same time.
Tracey, turning blue waiting for a sitewide announcement wrote: "I guess I'm the only one not impressed by Booklikes customer service - I shot them a note on Friday saying I knew their servers were being taxed and all but my import has been saying "14 more hours..."Is there a way to quick fix this? I have this same issue. :(
Not sure if any of you are interested but you can use the image tags in the Goodreads HTML shortcuts to put images into the sidebar. Just paste them into the widgets box.
Themis-Athena wrote: "Glamdring wrote: "Where can you like reviews if you missed them in the general flow? It doesn't seem possible to do it from the review author's blog. Thanks."Click on the review title in the auth..."
Thank you heaps! :)
Helen wrote: "Yeah, I don't know why you cannot edit your review on the blog...
See the small bar at the top of the screen that goes "Dashboard-Blog-Shelf-Timeline"? You have to go to "Blog" (this get's you to your blog's dashboard, as opposed to friends feed), and scroll down until you find your review. Then hover to the left of the rating so the "edit" button will pop up"
I have about 750 reviews, so searching there takes forever. Ridiculous that you cannot search there! Bad news. Thank you for your help.
@Miranda There's some guides here:
http://j4n3m3.booklikes.com/post/2427...
and I think this would be what you're looking for;
http://threears.booklikes.com/post/23...
I would recommend you take notice of every line you update, esp if you plan on making multiple changes.
Miranda wrote: "Next question ^o^I have a super boring font"
There are a lot of cool fonts you can download for free. I think this one is kind of hip...but might not be your taste.
I really should be studying but I just couldn't be assed. 
The font is bira ... it's a free download....but if you can't find it, let me know and I'd be happy to send you your name....without any background as a jpeg. in whatever colour you want.
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I managed to get my box transparent on my blog page, but when it comes to the shelf page it just gets funky because of all the shelves.
Any suggestions? I d/l stylebot btw but that won't work with what I want.