Post by CavGunner on Jul 31, 2011 2:28:51 GMT
Alright!
This is my second go at a standard tutorial for you lot!
(If I add any new tutorial-based features, I'll update this!)
Basically...some of you guys either don't bother with your profiles, don't know how to do things, or are generally unaware of features you have!
So...I shall attempt to fix that!
First off...click the Profile button on the top of the page to get to your Profile. Everything in this tutorial is for THAT section!
On the left-hand side, you see your "Mini-profile"...this is basically what people see on every post you make, and every time they visit your profile as well (Stalkers...).
Here, you see your Profile Picture, Display Name, Title, Star Count, Online Status, Social Links, Join Date, Gender, Post Count, Location, and Karma.
Explanations:
Profile Picture: Your display picture. You really need help on this...? I worry about you.
Display Name: I'm not even going to bother.
Title: The group you belong to (Forum Member, Let's Player, Global Moderator, or Administrator).
Star Count: how many pretty little stars you have. Represent nothing but your rank, or your number of posts (I'll explain that later).
Online Status: Online...or offline...it tells you.
Social Links: Basically, if you link your Email, Website, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, or anything else...it'll show a little icon here that will link people to it (I'll explain it more later).
Join Date: The day you stalked our forum enough that you signed up.
Gender: Check Dictionary.com.
Post Count: How many times you've posted in total.
Location: Where you are in the world.
Karma: People can either "Exalt" or "Smite" you, which will raise, or lower your karma, respectively. Essentially, this just show how you're viewed on the forum, and is not moderated, changed, or really noticed by the admins. But please note that abuse of this system will be called for reason, and if none arises...it will be reverted.
On the main body of the profile, you see the rest of your information, including:
Name, Email (Unless hidden), Website (Unless not available), Birthday, Age, Gender, Location, Posts, Karma, Date Registered, and Account Status.
They are then followed by your Awards, and Recent Activity.
Your Signature follows up after.
Explanations:
hbujfrty76t8nh bng7yfwe76tbh vjr56fvc ghb n
(Sorry, there was a spider on my keyboard).
Email: This is only visible if you set it to be, else it is hidden to the forum.
Website: If you input a website, it is available here.
Birthday: Happy birthday! (Did you know that on your birthday...we have it so that it says "Happy birthday YourNameHere" in our News Fader? Really!)
Age: How old you are. No, really. (Did you know that our oldest member is over 100 years old? Really! He's 111! His name's MageMasher22!)
Account Status: If you've activated your account, or not.
Awards: Sometimes we give out awards for contests, random things, or whatever else. If you get one, it will show up here!
Recent Activity: The last places you posted, and the last time you logged in.
Signature: Make it interesting! Seriously.
Editing your Profile:
FIRST OFF...CLICK THE F**KING "MODIFY PROFILE" BUTTON AT THE TOP OF YOUR BLOODY PROFILE!!! IT'S NOT EXACTLY ROCKET SCIENCE TO FIND!!!
*Breathe*
Okay, I'm good.
Anyway!
First section is to change your Password, Email and Display Name.
Simple enough.
The second section ("Personal Information"), is where we start customization!
You can change your Gender (For free!), choose to hide it or not, add your Location, and your Website Information! Website information includes the Name, and the URL.
The comes the Avatar! (Note that ours forum does not support uploads as of yet, so you will need to take the URL of the picture you want and stick it in the bar!) (Upload your pictures to a photo sharing site like www.tinypic.com to make it easier...it's free!)
Maximum Avatar sizes are 100x100, and if yours is too big (No manparts jokes here), you can manually add in the size in the following 2 text fields.
Then it's your Personal Text which is just a little blurb in your mini-profile...that I forgot to mention. Make it interesting!
Then it's the signature! It supports images, links, and everything else...but we monitor them, so please keep it relatively appropriate and everyone will stay happy
Profile notes are just random tidbits that no-one but YOU (Yes you!) and the staff (That's us!) can read.
The following section ("Instant Messengers") is where you get all those little symbols in your Mini Profile.
For all of them, you literally do what it says right next to it. Just remember to listen to the "XBox Live tag" one...you need to replace all spaces with +'s or it will not work.
Then comes "Account Preferences".
Choose to show or hide your email or age, opt in or out to Mass Emails (Which we really don't do as of yet, until we get our newsletter under way), be invisible to the forum or not, show or hide avatars, signatures, or images, and whether or not to expand or hide suboards.
Simple, right?
"Dates and Times"!
This is pretty basic. You just input the time settings for wherever you are, so that the forum can automatically adjust itself to your area (So that it doesn't say you posted 4 hours ago, when it was 5 minutes, etc etc).
Then you just click "Modify Profile" at the bottom...and you're done!
Clicking "Delete Profile" will do just that, and you lost your account...be careful with that one!
Bookmarks and Social Networks go to your Bookmarked threads, and let you link to your Social Networks, respectively.
Easy enough.
Well...that seems to be it, as far as I can see.
I'll keep this one updated if I decide to add any other features to the forum that change anything here...so if you're confused, just come check it again!
This is my second go at a standard tutorial for you lot!
(If I add any new tutorial-based features, I'll update this!)
Basically...some of you guys either don't bother with your profiles, don't know how to do things, or are generally unaware of features you have!
So...I shall attempt to fix that!
First off...click the Profile button on the top of the page to get to your Profile. Everything in this tutorial is for THAT section!
On the left-hand side, you see your "Mini-profile"...this is basically what people see on every post you make, and every time they visit your profile as well (Stalkers...).
Here, you see your Profile Picture, Display Name, Title, Star Count, Online Status, Social Links, Join Date, Gender, Post Count, Location, and Karma.
Explanations:
Profile Picture: Your display picture. You really need help on this...? I worry about you.
Display Name: I'm not even going to bother.
Title: The group you belong to (Forum Member, Let's Player, Global Moderator, or Administrator).
Star Count: how many pretty little stars you have. Represent nothing but your rank, or your number of posts (I'll explain that later).
Online Status: Online...or offline...it tells you.
Social Links: Basically, if you link your Email, Website, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, or anything else...it'll show a little icon here that will link people to it (I'll explain it more later).
Join Date: The day you stalked our forum enough that you signed up.
Gender: Check Dictionary.com.
Post Count: How many times you've posted in total.
Location: Where you are in the world.
Karma: People can either "Exalt" or "Smite" you, which will raise, or lower your karma, respectively. Essentially, this just show how you're viewed on the forum, and is not moderated, changed, or really noticed by the admins. But please note that abuse of this system will be called for reason, and if none arises...it will be reverted.
On the main body of the profile, you see the rest of your information, including:
Name, Email (Unless hidden), Website (Unless not available), Birthday, Age, Gender, Location, Posts, Karma, Date Registered, and Account Status.
They are then followed by your Awards, and Recent Activity.
Your Signature follows up after.
Explanations:
hbujfrty76t8nh bng7yfwe76tbh vjr56fvc ghb n
(Sorry, there was a spider on my keyboard).
Email: This is only visible if you set it to be, else it is hidden to the forum.
Website: If you input a website, it is available here.
Birthday: Happy birthday! (Did you know that on your birthday...we have it so that it says "Happy birthday YourNameHere" in our News Fader? Really!)
Age: How old you are. No, really. (Did you know that our oldest member is over 100 years old? Really! He's 111! His name's MageMasher22!)
Account Status: If you've activated your account, or not.
Awards: Sometimes we give out awards for contests, random things, or whatever else. If you get one, it will show up here!
Recent Activity: The last places you posted, and the last time you logged in.
Signature: Make it interesting! Seriously.
Editing your Profile:
FIRST OFF...CLICK THE F**KING "MODIFY PROFILE" BUTTON AT THE TOP OF YOUR BLOODY PROFILE!!! IT'S NOT EXACTLY ROCKET SCIENCE TO FIND!!!
*Breathe*
Okay, I'm good.
Anyway!
First section is to change your Password, Email and Display Name.
Simple enough.
The second section ("Personal Information"), is where we start customization!
You can change your Gender (For free!), choose to hide it or not, add your Location, and your Website Information! Website information includes the Name, and the URL.
The comes the Avatar! (Note that ours forum does not support uploads as of yet, so you will need to take the URL of the picture you want and stick it in the bar!) (Upload your pictures to a photo sharing site like www.tinypic.com to make it easier...it's free!)
Maximum Avatar sizes are 100x100, and if yours is too big (No manparts jokes here), you can manually add in the size in the following 2 text fields.
Then it's your Personal Text which is just a little blurb in your mini-profile...that I forgot to mention. Make it interesting!
Then it's the signature! It supports images, links, and everything else...but we monitor them, so please keep it relatively appropriate and everyone will stay happy
Profile notes are just random tidbits that no-one but YOU (Yes you!) and the staff (That's us!) can read.
The following section ("Instant Messengers") is where you get all those little symbols in your Mini Profile.
For all of them, you literally do what it says right next to it. Just remember to listen to the "XBox Live tag" one...you need to replace all spaces with +'s or it will not work.
Then comes "Account Preferences".
Choose to show or hide your email or age, opt in or out to Mass Emails (Which we really don't do as of yet, until we get our newsletter under way), be invisible to the forum or not, show or hide avatars, signatures, or images, and whether or not to expand or hide suboards.
Simple, right?
"Dates and Times"!
This is pretty basic. You just input the time settings for wherever you are, so that the forum can automatically adjust itself to your area (So that it doesn't say you posted 4 hours ago, when it was 5 minutes, etc etc).
Then you just click "Modify Profile" at the bottom...and you're done!
Clicking "Delete Profile" will do just that, and you lost your account...be careful with that one!
Bookmarks and Social Networks go to your Bookmarked threads, and let you link to your Social Networks, respectively.
Easy enough.
Well...that seems to be it, as far as I can see.
I'll keep this one updated if I decide to add any other features to the forum that change anything here...so if you're confused, just come check it again!