Dates & Comments!, .... Options

[abortcaptain]

Well I have a problem. haha

My date and time doesn't seem to wanna show up on my entries.

I know it's something in the coding, but I don't know what, and I can't figure it out cause I'm not too good at that.

So here's my livejournal code.
If anyone could figure out what it is that makes my time and date invisible, that'd be awesome.

And one more thing, how do you change the "post comment" thing to say something else?

Thanks a lot to anyone who helps.

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[*Libertie*]

There are a couple of things that could be the problem.. I'm looking through the code, and I'll try to help you figure it out. I may hafta paste it into another account to preview though.

First, you have these..

<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com --><br /><br />LASTN_DATE_FORMAT<=<br />FRIENDS_DATE_FORMAT<=<br /><br /><!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->

...with nothing after them.

I'm not sure if that makes the whole thing disappear, but I'm sure it doesn't help. :P I'd just erase both of those altogether if you don't want to change anything. If you do, here's an example of what you could put there from one of my layouts:

<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com --><br /><br />LASTN_DATE_FORMAT<=<b><font face="Verdana" size="2">%%m%%.%%d%%.%%yy%%&nbsp;-&nbsp;%%12h%%.%%min%%%%ampm%%</font></b><br /><=LASTN_DATE_FORMAT<br /><br /><!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->

Second, your background color for the entries (shadowed) is the same as p .index. Both white. So if the date is on top of a white background, you won't be able to see it without highlighting. So change the color for the p .index and it should work.

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Changing the comments:

<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com --><br /><br /><br />LASTN_TALK_READLINK=><a href="%%urlread%%">Read %%messagecount%%</a><br /><=LASTN_TALK_READLINK<br /><br />LASTN_TALK_LINKS<=<br />%%readlink%%<a href="%%urlpost%%">Post Comment</a><br /><br /><br /><=LASTN_TALK_LINKS<br /><br /><!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->

[abortcaptain]

thanks so much for taking the time to look through it!

The changing of .index helped hahah.

But when I take out these...

LASTN_DATE_FORMAT<=
FRIENDS_DATE_FORMAT<=


... Yes, it shows the dates up, but then it takes out the top navigation I made, and puts in the old one.

is there a way to do with me still being able to keep my navigation?

Sorry if i'm being annoying, hahaha, but this glitch is really bothering me. Thanks again.

[*Libertie*]

You've left LASTN_WEBSITE and FRIENDS_WEBSITE intact, right?

[abortcaptain]

I didn't have the FRIENDS_WEBSITE . But I put it in now, and it all worked.

THANKS ALOT!