kate | Collection of things to help people new to Dreamwidth

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!