InsaneJournal

Current mood:

confused

I'll Be The Victim! (All Your Life)
Okay, here's the thing. All my layouts have come from other people or are the premade ones that can be selected with a simple click of the mouse or mouse-like equivalent. And I've known that this is part of my fannish and online education that I was neglecting, but it seems TERRIBLY COMPLICATED from where I am sitting. *sighs* However, I cannot depend on the charity of my friends forever and I really kind of DO want a layout on Dreamwidth and I'd like to be able to change my LJ layout without having to pester my friends.

So. This is my "teach a man to fish" plea.

The thing is, though there are certain realms in which I can pass for technologically proficient, it's just that. PASSING. I am base-freaking ignorant about how LJ (or DW) works, or how to make it DO anything or what all those codes and lingo mean. So what I need is a "Layouts for Preschool Level Idjits" tutorial (or explanation). The kind of thing you would give your not-technological granny (I specify, because I know there are plenty of techno-savvy grannies here *g*) who has just gotten her first email account ever at the age of ninety something. THAT kind of tutorial. Surely one must exist, right? Because the tutorial's I've looked at or been linked to have all been written in the equivalent of Ancient Sumerian, as far as I'm concerned and, in addition to giving me a complex, it's not actually USEFUL to someone at my technological non-level.

Is there such a thing? Help?