Alternative wording for an old old page (customize/advanced)

[foxfirefey]

Not linking to the comment because I don't want to bring unnecessary attention to somebody without asking their permission, but they talked about hitting https://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/ and seeing the warning "Unless you're a programmer or web designer, you should probably stay away from this area" and getting too intimidated to go further.

I think we could make alternative wording that doesn't tell people who aren't programmers or web designers to "stay away", one that's more inclusive--and we have more documentation here that can help somebody out.

What do people think?

Comments

[roadrunnertwice]

This is very close to what I would have said! My only suggestion is to tweak the second sentence:

If you’d rather not do that, you can use the main customization area to adjust your journal’s style with settings and CSS.

The “are you looking for?” construction subtly assumes the reader is lost, so I think it’s a little kinder to just be explicit about which kinds of activities happen where. 👍🏼

[vass]

Good point.

Does the main customisation area let you change the CSS? It's been a long time since I changed my style, and I didn't do that much tweaking then.

[roadrunnertwice]

Yeah! “Custom CSS” tab, I’ve used it to fix all kinds of overflows and bad display of less common elements.

Technically, not every style has to support that; it just ends up being an S2 property, and the layers that implement functions get to decide whether to do anything w/ it (and/or whether to show that tab in the wizard at all). But it’s so common w/ the site styles here on dw that it might as well be standard? Idk, I haven’t done an exhaustive search to try and find one that breaks it.

[foxfirefey]

Custom CSS is a built in property of core2! So, all the Core2 styles would have it, but imported S1 styles might not.