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

[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.