This is not the easiest thing in the world to do, you'll get into some of LJ's ugly (but powerful) guts, but hopefully these instructions are clear enough that there's not much room for error if you follow them exactly.
- Make sure you have a paid Live Journal account.
- Go to the advanced customization layers page.
- Click on "Your Styles".
- Create a new style (at the bottom of the page). Enter "iPhone" as the name. Click "Create".
- Leave the Language dropdown alone, and in the Layout dropdown, go to the very bottom and select "Other"...
- Enter "13000933" into the Layer ID field.
- Click "Change".
- Ignore the Language, Theme, and User dropdowns. Just click "Save Changes".
- Find the line for "iPhone" under the "Your Styles" heading, and save of the number that is linked there. Don't include the # sign. This is your STYLE ID which you'll use in the next step to create a link.
- Go to this page: http://YOUR_USERNAME.livejournal.com/friends?s2id=YOUR_STYLE_id&.id=YOUR_STYLE_ID_AGAIN&auth=digest
- If you open that link in your iPhone, you should be all set up. Try emailing it to yourself, or just type it into the browser on your iPhone.
I tried to make a cool icon for the iPhone in case people bookmarked it, but unfortunately Live Journal strips out any <link> tags.
Thought I'd throw some feedback since you asked. These are way minor.
- I'd go with a slightly larger font for the body text.
- I'd make the Post link go to this URL instead of blogit: http://www.livejournal.com/mobile/post.bml
- I'd make the user icons a little larger.
- I'd put the actual date instead of just the day. (12/30/08 instead of Tue)
In the end, these are just me being picky, they're mostly design choices and I realize that they'll take-up more screen real estate, but just my two cents.
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME. Thank you for this!
and thanx to buster for puttin it all together