Collection of things to help people new to Dreamwidth

[kate]

Helpful hints to make your way around Dreamwidth and help your friends (or you) navigate:

relevant_creativity's crossposting tutorial

femmequixotic's tutorial on how to bulk add your LJ flist to Dreamwidth using the Admin Console

Widget to find people with the same name on LJ and DW

relevant_creativity's OpenID tutorial

stepps has collected a whole lot of basic kinds of information in hir What to do with Dreamwidth: a list of tutorials and information post - this is a really brilliant collection of beginners sort of info.

If you can't find the answers you need, why not open a support request? People here are friendly and fast and will help you quickly and with a smile on their face.

Finding stuff to read/see:

synecdochic hosts a Monday pride post where you can tell your accomplishments and cheer others on, and she's pretty awesome in general, if you're looking for someone to read.

Search interests to find other folks and comms with your interests

Search the entirety of Dreamwidth to find posts about your interests

zarhooie's giant friending meme

lj_refugees friending meme

Most recent posts and tags on dreamwidth

followfriday (the follow friday tag feed)

Comms to find even more Dreamwidth stuff:

community_promo
dreamscapes
dreamsheep
dw_biz
dw_community_promo
dw_feed_promo
dw_maintenance
dw_meetups
dw_nifty
dw_styles
dwrocks
getting_started
lj_refugees
style_system (S2 CSS wiki and S2 Guide wiki)
the_dw_herald
three_weeks_for_dw

To give back to Dreamwidth:

Buy stuff here, paid accounts for you, your friends, communities, and random users, plus points that you can buy for others or yourself

Buy merch here, more stuff than you can shake a stick at

dw_codesharing, to share your codes with other people looking to start up here

If anybody else has good starter info or links to other newbie posts, feel free to add stuff in the comments!

Comments

[rydra_wong]

getting_started! And maybe the Follow Friday tag feed?

[kate]

Yes, both excellent, thank you! Will edit them in.

[msilverstar]

The user name tag that just Does the Right Thing! It's like crosspost heaven.

<user name="kate" site="dreamwidth.org">

(the quotes are optional, the order of site & name are optional)

[kate]

OOoh, I didn't even know that worked! I used this old convoluted system to do my LJ friends. Awesome, thank you!

[foxfirefey]

If people are interested into getting into making styles here, see dw_styles and dreamscapes:

http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/S2_CSS
http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/S2_Guide

And if they need help: style_system.

[kate]

Great suggestions - I'll edit those in!

[kate]

Well, since everyone uses the site differently, I didn't want to put in more than general DW things, or places where they can find interests relative to them. Since I'm fannish, too much of what I'd rec content-wise is fannish; I don't want to put people off by reccing content they're not interested in. The Monday pride thread is brilliant, though, I'll edit that in (follow friday's up there already, both the comm and the feed).

And thanks! I'm hoping this can be of use to all kinds of new people coming over.

[rydra_wong]

I forgot the_dw_herald!

[kate]

Oh, thank you! I'll edit that in.