in which I am 'helpful' because I'm a know-it-all

Theoretically I'm doing work stuff. I just had to pause and offer this helpful tidbit for livejournal politeness. If the page for an individual journal entry is the same as your journal style, it might be hard to read. You can change that easily - go here, scroll down and click yes for the box marked "disable custom comment pages." (You do have to be logged in for this to work. And if you find this confusing, click on the link button for this entry. See the white background, totally unlike my own usual greenish journal front page? That's what I mean--that's what you'll get by disabling the custom comment page.)

*whine* I'm farsighted! I already have to wear reading glasses when I spend time online! I like the nice white background with black letters

Here, have some other stuff on using LJ:
Signs you might not be from LJ originally
How to LJ has links to lots of html explanations and other LJ stuff

If the eyestrain of someone's weird journal layout gets to be too much, you can always add ?style=mine or ?format=light to the end of a url to make it more readable. (For the style-mine thing to work, you have to be logged in to LJ.)

Okay, I think I'm done being "helpful" for this evening. Off to save the rest of the world!