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How To Change Your Profile Settings (Avatar, Photo, Signature, Status, Time Zone)
11 August 2009
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DDecker 
In this tutorial you will learn how to update your Profile Photo, Signature, Avatar, Status and time zone. Members cam learn about you, where you live, your personal statement and send you a Private Message.
CUSTOMIZING YOUR PROFILE
To customize your profile and add a photo click the photo or down arrow.
Click Profile to open the Profile/Settings dialogue box.
1. Allows you to open your Settings from your Profile.
2. Allows you to add a Facebook Style Status that will show on the Forum Home Page on the Right hand side. Click Update, type in a message and click Save. Top change click update.
3. Click to quickly find Topics you have started and Threads you have posted to.
Here is the Status Updates box on the Forum Home Page
Once you have some information added to your settings anyone that visits your Profile can view the information. Your Profile is PUBLIC information so be careful of what you share. (Editing your settings will be covered in a following tutorial).
You can see your member group, Anniversary Date, Latest Visitors, Friends and Comments among other things from your Profile.
UPDATING YOUR PROFILE INFORMATION
From the Profile Tab in your Settings (#1 Above) you can update your information. There are six tabs in the Profile Settings.
Change Profile Information is where you set your Comment, Friend, Profile View and Other Information and is shown on your Profile page when people visit.
Comments: enable or disable Profile comments and Notifications, check for Enable, uncheck for Disable. You also can choose Email, PM or No notification from the drop down box. Comment approval is also set here, Disable allows comments without approval, Enable requires approval of comments left.
Friends: Choose your notification type and if someone can become your friend without prior approval. :)
Profile Information: Share your birthday with us! Or not, it's up to you!
CUSTOM MEMBER TITLE
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Once you have made 2500 posts, you can create a custom member title here. *Not all posts count toward your post count, playing games for example does not increase your post count.
Other Information: IM Names, Website link (personal websites, NO commercial), a personal statement, Gender and Location. Make sure you save changes! All information is optional, not required. Please be brief with your Personal Statement as it is displayed under your avatar on each post.
Tell us about yourself! Populates the About Me tab on your Profile.
Change Signature allows you to customize your Signature. Add your name or what you would like to be called. Do you have a favorite quote or scripture? Share it with us.
You can even create a signature image and link it here. Please upload a NOT larger than 225X225 Pixel image to our Signature Gallery and use the insert image button shown above. Copy the code from the images gallery page Share- Image Link and paste it into the box that open when you click the insert image button. Save Changes. Please see our Terms of Use for more guidelines.
READ THIS TUTORIAL IF YOU WISH TO LEARN ABOUT ADDING BLINKIES TO YOUR SIGNATURE
ADDING A PHOTO TO YOUR PROFILE
To add a photo to your profile and have it show in the top right corner of the website:
1. Choose a photo and resize it to 150 X 150 Pixels at 72 dip not larger than 100KB and save it to your computer.
2. Click the browse button shown above and browse to where you saved the image.
3. Click save changes. If you are uploading a new image to replace an existing one, browse to your image and click Save Changes.
4. Log out of Scrap Girls.
5. Close your browser.
6. Clear your temp files and cache.
7. Log back into Scrap Girls. If you are still seeing your original image, close your browser and reboot your computer before logging back into Scrap Girls.
ADDING AN AVATAR
An avatar is an image you choose to represent you on the message board. You can use a layout, photo, or other graphic images as long as they are on bigger than 100 X 100 pixels and less than 100 KB in size. Click the browse button and browse to where your image is. Click Save Changes.
BLOCKING PERSONAL MESSAGES FROM A SPECIFIC MEMBER
If there are members you choose not to accept Personal Messages from, Add their Member Name in the box and check the Ignore Personal Conversations. Click Save Changes.
Click your Profile button again to see changes that members will see when they visit your page!
CUSTOMIZING YOUR PROFILE
To customize your profile and add a photo click the photo or down arrow.
Click Profile to open the Profile/Settings dialogue box.
1. Allows you to open your Settings from your Profile.
2. Allows you to add a Facebook Style Status that will show on the Forum Home Page on the Right hand side. Click Update, type in a message and click Save. Top change click update.
3. Click to quickly find Topics you have started and Threads you have posted to.
Here is the Status Updates box on the Forum Home Page
Once you have some information added to your settings anyone that visits your Profile can view the information. Your Profile is PUBLIC information so be careful of what you share. (Editing your settings will be covered in a following tutorial).
You can see your member group, Anniversary Date, Latest Visitors, Friends and Comments among other things from your Profile.
UPDATING YOUR PROFILE INFORMATION
From the Profile Tab in your Settings (#1 Above) you can update your information. There are six tabs in the Profile Settings.
Change Profile Information is where you set your Comment, Friend, Profile View and Other Information and is shown on your Profile page when people visit.
Comments: enable or disable Profile comments and Notifications, check for Enable, uncheck for Disable. You also can choose Email, PM or No notification from the drop down box. Comment approval is also set here, Disable allows comments without approval, Enable requires approval of comments left.
Friends: Choose your notification type and if someone can become your friend without prior approval. :)
Profile Information: Share your birthday with us! Or not, it's up to you!
CUSTOM MEMBER TITLE
http://scrapgirls.co...
Once you have made 2500 posts, you can create a custom member title here. *Not all posts count toward your post count, playing games for example does not increase your post count.
Other Information: IM Names, Website link (personal websites, NO commercial), a personal statement, Gender and Location. Make sure you save changes! All information is optional, not required. Please be brief with your Personal Statement as it is displayed under your avatar on each post.
Tell us about yourself! Populates the About Me tab on your Profile.
Change Signature allows you to customize your Signature. Add your name or what you would like to be called. Do you have a favorite quote or scripture? Share it with us.
You can even create a signature image and link it here. Please upload a NOT larger than 225X225 Pixel image to our Signature Gallery and use the insert image button shown above. Copy the code from the images gallery page Share- Image Link and paste it into the box that open when you click the insert image button. Save Changes. Please see our Terms of Use for more guidelines.
READ THIS TUTORIAL IF YOU WISH TO LEARN ABOUT ADDING BLINKIES TO YOUR SIGNATURE
ADDING A PHOTO TO YOUR PROFILE
To add a photo to your profile and have it show in the top right corner of the website:
1. Choose a photo and resize it to 150 X 150 Pixels at 72 dip not larger than 100KB and save it to your computer.
2. Click the browse button shown above and browse to where you saved the image.
3. Click save changes. If you are uploading a new image to replace an existing one, browse to your image and click Save Changes.
4. Log out of Scrap Girls.
5. Close your browser.
6. Clear your temp files and cache.
7. Log back into Scrap Girls. If you are still seeing your original image, close your browser and reboot your computer before logging back into Scrap Girls.
ADDING AN AVATAR
An avatar is an image you choose to represent you on the message board. You can use a layout, photo, or other graphic images as long as they are on bigger than 100 X 100 pixels and less than 100 KB in size. Click the browse button and browse to where your image is. Click Save Changes.
BLOCKING PERSONAL MESSAGES FROM A SPECIFIC MEMBER
If there are members you choose not to accept Personal Messages from, Add their Member Name in the box and check the Ignore Personal Conversations. Click Save Changes.
Click your Profile button again to see changes that members will see when they visit your page!
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