Post by seketta on Jul 27, 2010 18:48:28 GMT -5
Here are a few tips to help you to get started.
Modify your profile:
Go to your profile and then click "Modify Profile" at the top of the page. You do not need to re-enter your password, that is just for a password change or something :D You should already have your e-mail and display name filled in.
In the personal information box; first, you enter your gender. You can hide your gender if you like, but I would suggest let people see if you are a girl or boy :D Then, on your location, you can choose to fill it in or you can choose not, but we suggest to make it very vague...you never know who is out there looking at your profile. Then, if you have a website, you can put the name of your web in the blank and then post a link to the homepage (just don't steal all of our members! :D) Then, you can have a custom avatar. Post the URL link to the avatar (it will automatically HTML the link) then put the demensions in the width/height. The maximum allowed is 100 x 100. If you want personal text displayed below your avatar, feel free to write whatever you want there :D (as long as it follows the rules) Your signature appears below your post. I am not sure about HTML on this one, but I think you have to put the BBcoding there manually. I have no idea what the User Notes are and I may test it out sometime XD.
Then you can fill out your IM (Instant Messaging) information. AIM, ICQ, YIM, MSN -I myself don't want IMs from people, so I just didn't fill this out. You can if you want to though :D
Then, on your account privileges, first, you can choose to show your age or you can choose not to. It is your choice. I didn't. You can choose to show your e-mail or not as well. I did because I am the owner of the site and it is kind of my responsibility...but again, I can't speak for you. On the mass e-mails, I chose Opt-out because I did not want to receive overloads of e-mails. The Stay Invisible feature is kind of dumb because who doesn't want to be seen by their buddies? I guess, although if you want you can for some odd reason I will never know. (If you are one of those who thinks that you can hide from the staff members, forget it...I am watching you...lolz). If you would not like to see other people's or your own signature, then mark >Show Signatrues>>no; if yes, put yes. For Avatars and Images, do the same. (Images are like attachments and such). The skin is what the forum colors are. I have made two custom skins already, Pink and Blue and Blue and Green. I suggest not to hide the sub-boards, but it is also your choice. The expand Sub-boards seems useless to me. I clicked no, of course. Because I would like to click the sub-boards the view the sub-boards.
Now, for the dates and times. The only part of this thing that I understand is the Time Format. In the time format you can either have 24 hour time (100 - 2400) or you can have AMs and PMs (12:00 - 12:00)
I think that only admins see the Admin Functions, so I won't say anything about that. XD
Get Posting!
Just browse around the forums and post. There are some forums games started, you can start a few more :D Talk about your real life, brag about your pets, or just have fun! We also made a roleplaying board that people have yet to use, you can go there and be the first! We like to see activity of our users on the forums :D Make a thread, post on someone elses! We would also love you to welcome B.W. Jacket as our new artist! Posting gets you new levels and also get you new friends!
Private Message People:
Just go to a random person's profile and private message them! You may become buddies :D. As far as I know there is no friend button, so you can just post the links to your friends on your profile :D We would very much love you to get into some activity with your friends :D
Modify your profile:
Go to your profile and then click "Modify Profile" at the top of the page. You do not need to re-enter your password, that is just for a password change or something :D You should already have your e-mail and display name filled in.
In the personal information box; first, you enter your gender. You can hide your gender if you like, but I would suggest let people see if you are a girl or boy :D Then, on your location, you can choose to fill it in or you can choose not, but we suggest to make it very vague...you never know who is out there looking at your profile. Then, if you have a website, you can put the name of your web in the blank and then post a link to the homepage (just don't steal all of our members! :D) Then, you can have a custom avatar. Post the URL link to the avatar (it will automatically HTML the link) then put the demensions in the width/height. The maximum allowed is 100 x 100. If you want personal text displayed below your avatar, feel free to write whatever you want there :D (as long as it follows the rules) Your signature appears below your post. I am not sure about HTML on this one, but I think you have to put the BBcoding there manually. I have no idea what the User Notes are and I may test it out sometime XD.
Then you can fill out your IM (Instant Messaging) information. AIM, ICQ, YIM, MSN -I myself don't want IMs from people, so I just didn't fill this out. You can if you want to though :D
Then, on your account privileges, first, you can choose to show your age or you can choose not to. It is your choice. I didn't. You can choose to show your e-mail or not as well. I did because I am the owner of the site and it is kind of my responsibility...but again, I can't speak for you. On the mass e-mails, I chose Opt-out because I did not want to receive overloads of e-mails. The Stay Invisible feature is kind of dumb because who doesn't want to be seen by their buddies? I guess, although if you want you can for some odd reason I will never know. (If you are one of those who thinks that you can hide from the staff members, forget it...I am watching you...lolz). If you would not like to see other people's or your own signature, then mark >Show Signatrues>>no; if yes, put yes. For Avatars and Images, do the same. (Images are like attachments and such). The skin is what the forum colors are. I have made two custom skins already, Pink and Blue and Blue and Green. I suggest not to hide the sub-boards, but it is also your choice. The expand Sub-boards seems useless to me. I clicked no, of course. Because I would like to click the sub-boards the view the sub-boards.
Now, for the dates and times. The only part of this thing that I understand is the Time Format. In the time format you can either have 24 hour time (100 - 2400) or you can have AMs and PMs (12:00 - 12:00)
I think that only admins see the Admin Functions, so I won't say anything about that. XD
Get Posting!
Just browse around the forums and post. There are some forums games started, you can start a few more :D Talk about your real life, brag about your pets, or just have fun! We also made a roleplaying board that people have yet to use, you can go there and be the first! We like to see activity of our users on the forums :D Make a thread, post on someone elses! We would also love you to welcome B.W. Jacket as our new artist! Posting gets you new levels and also get you new friends!
Private Message People:
Just go to a random person's profile and private message them! You may become buddies :D. As far as I know there is no friend button, so you can just post the links to your friends on your profile :D We would very much love you to get into some activity with your friends :D