Frequently Asked Layout Questions
This article provides general information on creating blog, story and poem layouts. An FAQ for custom profile layouts can be found here.
Index
General Layout Questions
- Q. Can someone make a layout for me?
- Q. Where can I find premade _______ layouts?
- Q. The layout maker won't work for me, why?
- Q. What's a direct link to an image, and where do I find it?
- Q. How do I move the content box from the center of the layout?
Story Layout Questions
- Q. Where do I access the story layout maker?
- Q. My summary page looks the way I want, but how do I change the text of my chapters?
- Q. The text on my chapter pages is all jumbled together and unreadable, help?
- Q. How do I get a banner for my story?
- Q. How do I insert a banner into my story layout?
- Q. How do I insert a banner into my summary or at the top of chapters?
- Q. Where can I find page/story dividers and how do I use them in my story?
- Q. I made someone / someone made me a story layout, how do I / they transfer it?
Poem Layout Questions
Blog Layout Questions
- Q. Where do I access the blog layout maker?
- Q. How do I change the color of links in the text of my blog?
General Questions
Q. Can someone make a _____ layout for me?
Please ask for a layout in the Request A Layout Thread. Most users with Mibba Layout Websites, listed here, will accept requests; be sure to check their guidelines for requests before submitting one.
Q. Where can I find premade _______ layouts?
- For stories: here
- For poems: here
- For blogs: here
- For profiles: In this thread, or on the Mibba layout websites listed in this thread.
Q. The _____ layout maker won't work for me. Why?
Mibba's layout worker functions best with Google Chrome. You can download Google Chrome here for free. If you use a different browser, try clearing your cache/browsing data before using the layout maker and refreshing the page.
Q. What's a direct link to an image and where do I find it?
All images used in story, poem, blog, or profile layouts must be uploaded somewhere on the internet (ie, you can't upload them to Mibba from your computer). An image that has been uploaded to the internet is located on a unique page that ends in the file type of the image (.jpg, .png, .gif).
The method for finding the direct link varies from browser to browser, but if you right-click the image, you should have an option along the lines of "Properties" or "View image info". Click that and you'll be able to find the location of that image.
That said, when using an image in a layout, you should upload it to a image-hosting site (eg,imgur, photobucket, tinypic). If you don't, you risk losing the image if the image is moved or deleted on the original site. You're also using that website's bandwidth without their permission, which isn't nice. When you upload an image to an image-hosting site, you'll be given several different links/lines of code, one of which will be labeled "Direct link". Copy that one to use in layouts on Mibba.
Q. How do I move the content box from the center of the layout?
Go to Content >> Box >> Margin; you should see the right and left margin blank except for a check box. Checking "Left" will change the left margin to 0 (ie, move the content box to the left side of the screen); checking "Right" will change the right margin to 0 (ie, move the content box to the right side of the screen).
Story Layout FAQ
Q. Where do I access the story layout maker?
You can access the layout maker here. To create a new layout, simply click the new layout button to the right.
Q. My summary page looks the way I want it, but how do I change the text on my chapter pages?
Go to Text >> Text to change the fontface, color, and size of the font for your chapters.
Q. The text on my chapter pages is all jumbled together and unreadable, help?
Your line height is set too low. Set it to at least the size of your font through Text >> Text >> Line height.
Q. How do I get a banner for my story?
To learn to make your own story banners, you can visit the Graphic Making Tutorials thread to find tutorials for making banners written by other Mibba users. You can ask questions in the Photoediting Questions & Tips thread, which also has a list of tutorials and other resources in the first post.
You can request a story banner here or use one of the pre-made story banners in this thread.
Q. How do I insert a banner into my story layout?
Directions for doing so can be found here.
Q. How do I insert a banner into my summary or at the top of chapters?
Do so with BBcode. The code is:
[img]direct link to banner[/img]
Q. Where can I find page/story dividers and how do I use them in my story?
You can find or request page dividers in this thread.
Q. I made someone / someone made me a story layout, how do I / they transfer it?
The author of the story needs to add the layout-maker as a co-author. (Do so by going to My Mibba >> Stories >> Stories and click the "Authors" button for the story.) The story will then appear on the layout-maker's story page, so they can apply the layout as they normally would. Once the layout is applied, the author can remove the layout-maker as a co-author and the layout will stay behind. The author won't be able to edit the layout, though, and any changes the layout-maker makes to the layout will apply to the story, even after the layout-maker has been removed as an author.
Poem Layout FAQ
Q. Where do I access the poem layout maker?
You can access the layout maker here. To create a new layout, simply click the new layout button to the right.
Blog Layout FAQ
Q. Where do I access the blog layout maker?
You can access the layout maker here. To create a new layout, simply click the "new layout" button to the right.
Q. How do I change the color of links in the text of my blog?
Change to the color you want at Page > Text > Link color.
Helpful Links
Story Links
Online Layout Tools
- Hexadecimal color selectors: one | two
- Color list
- Image-hosting sites for banners / background images / etc.: imgur | photobucket | tinypic |imageshack