FAQ Question #186

The appearance of the main LiveJournal page, as well as many other pages (such as User Info pages and the Read Comments pages in S1) is controlled by a 'scheme'. When you first use LiveJournal, you see the default scheme, but you can either change your preferences so that you always use a different scheme, or view individual pages using a particular scheme.

To change your preferences and select the scheme you will normally use, go to http://www.livejournal.com/manage/siteopts.bml. This page shows previews of the currently available schemes. Click on the scheme that you would like to use, and it will take over from your current scheme. The scheme names are listed above each of the preview images.

To view an individual page using a particular scheme, add "?usescheme=name" to the end of the URL, where 'name' is the name of the scheme that you would like to use. For instance, to view the main LiveJournal page without any graphics, you could use the 'lynx' scheme. The URL would read like this: http://www.livejournal.com/?usescheme=lynx. If there already is a ? in the URL, then add "&usescheme=name" (e.g. http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=exampleusername&usescheme=lynx).