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Having problems with your profile page? Here's some general information that will help you understand how to use your Profile Page.

Your Profile Page
In order to view your profile page you must be logged into the site. You can get to your profile page by clicking the word "profile" in the upper left corner of the masthead. By clicking the word "profile" this will take you to your profile homepage. The following information is represented on the tabs located below your description (Home, public messages, comments,  photos, blogs, profile)

Home Tab
The Profile Home tab is essentially a portal to recently contributed or received content, and friends. If you perform an activity such as commenting on an article, uploading a photo to a public gallery, or writing a blog entry, a link to that activity will be displayed in the Recent Activity section of your Profile Home page. Messages left for you and friends will also be displayed. The following is the complete list of items that may be present on a user's Profile Home page:

  • Recent Activity: Links to most recent activity (defaults to a maximum of 10 items)
  • Friends: Links to people the user has designated as "friends"
  • Pending Friends*: List of people that have requested friendship with the user. The user may accept or decline friendship requests.
  • Messages: Links to message left for this user by other users
  • My Latest Discussions: Links to forum discussion posts made by this user
  • My Watch List*: Links to other content areas for which the user has requested notification when new content becomes available
  • My Groups: Forum groups that the user is a member of
  • Recent Photos: Links to photos that the user has recently uploaded. Photos may reside in public or private galleries.

* These items are only visible to the Profile's owner.

Profile tab
The Profile tab is where you can enter some Profile information that allows other users to know a bit more about you. However, please bear in mind that this profile is meant to provide some background to your posts and views, not specific information that allows other users to identify you. Giving out your full name, home address, or phone number is not recommended, nor is providing the name of your workplace or place of study. If you share any information about yourself online, it could be collected and used by third parties to send you unsolicited materials.
Although your Profile page initially is public for all to view as will be all your site content, you do have the facility to choose whether to leave it public, have it viewed only by friends or keep it completely private.
Please remember that this is a public site visible for the whole world too see. If you choose to leave your profile as public, do not write anything you don't want your children, partner, family, neighbor, and/or every Tom, Dick or Harry to know about.

Adding and amending your details

Add a friend: where you can choose to add friends to build your Profile community.

To add someone as a friend, go to their Profile page and click on the Add me as a friend button. They will receive the request and can opt to be your friend or not, at which point you will be notified.

Equally they can choose to have you as a friend. You will be able to accept or refuse these.

Messages: where you can read the messages left by others.

To leave a message you must be logged in. Go to the Profile page of the person to whom you wish to send a message. Click on Messages tab. Type in the message you wish to leave and click on Leave me a message.

Comments: shows the comments you have left around the site together with links to those pages.

Photos: where you can see all photos on the site, where you can share your photos, see your photos and galleries.

To upload a single photo: You must be logged in to the site. Go to your Profile page, click on Photos tab, Click on Share your photos. If the photo you wish to load is to go in an existing gallery, choose the gallery and under that click on Upload Your Photo. Click on Browse, select your photo and click on OK and then Upload.

To upload more than one photo: follow the above but before you click on Upload, click on Add another. This will give you another field to Browse, select and OK. Repeat this until all the photos are selected and then click on Upload.

To view all public galleries: Click on See all public galleries and select those you wish to see. To add a photo to a public gallery you must be logged in to the site. Then follow the procedure to upload a single photograph, above.

Blog: where you can start or update your Profile diary for your friends or the public.

To write a blog: You must be logged in to the site. Go to your Profile page and click on the Blog tab. Click on Write New Post and a series of blank boxes will appear.

In Post Title put the title of this blog entry.

In Tags put in all those words, each separated by a comma, which would help a search tool to find your blog. This can be completed after you've added the main body of the text.

In Abstract (Optional) enter a summary of your post. This can be formatted using the tools under that box ie bold, underline etc

In Body enter the text you wish to write, formatting it as you wish using the tools under that box.

Avatars (pictures under your username)
These small images are called Avatars. They are displayed below your username on all posts that you make. There are two kinds of avatars: those provided by the administrator which are dsiplayed here for you to choose,  and those that you upload yourself. You may select an avatar that best describes your Profilelity on your Profile Profile page.

 
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