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Just for practical information and because its new to many, I will just introduce a little about how the new profile area is working and how you can change for example the profile image.
Profile area is more advanced than before. It has many features which can be added on, for the beginning I will only use a few relevant things, but perhaps in the future there are things we might want to add. As this is not a very big ‘community’ (yet) there is no need for a lot of fancy things, but who knows 🙂
To enter this profile area you just go to the user menu, which appear on the left side after login (on frontpage), here you can see the user menu, which shows mailbox, my profile and private messaging.
To change profile image and profile informations:
1. go to MY Profile
2. click on edit and update button
3. Then you will see that you can change four things :– contact information
– canvas (this means just the background on the profile picture, if unsure click on my photo to see what I mean) You can choose one which is already there, or you can upload your own. This is not the portrait, it will not really show anywhere except on the profile page.
– portrait – this is the profile picture, again you can choose a premade, or you can upload your own
– species kept – here you get some boxes already made with the names of the species, and you can click those relevant for you. This is just the first, probably not the best yet, other options may be better, but for a start we try this.
Remember to click update when you are finished, and you may have to enter your password, so of course it is important that you remember your login password in order to do this.
The changes will not show immidiately, because for safety reasons all new profile photos has to be approved by an admin.
Connections
Connections means that you can create ‘connections’ with other users, which only means that you can more easy send a private message to them. Its not a very nessesary thing, but we will see if it is something which we like or need.
If you want to connect with someone you click on their profile image, – here you will find a button saying ‘request connection’ – you press this and the request is send. The reciever then has to accept this.
When it has been accepted, you can find it in your own profile, beside the edit profile button, theres a button called connections. Here you can see the persons you have connected to.As I said, on a small forum like this, I dont know if this is anything we need, but I will add it for now, because it may be something which could help improve the easy communication between members, – and if nobody uses it, it can be taken away again.
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