This guide is currently being written by our administration team.
Your Account Settings and Profile You can get to your user profile by clicking on "my account" in the left hand menu. Here, under the view tab, is where you will find a general overview of your account, with quick links to your recent blog entries and quotes, members on your buddy list, and recent content you have submitted, as well as any points, badges and medals you have earned. This is also the profile page that is visible to other members of the site when they click on your user name.
edit - Using this tab’s submenu, you can edit your:
Account settings - change your password, email address, avatar (under Picture), or signature (under comment settings), set your local time zone, add or change your blog title or information, select your private message, email and contact settings, choose your text editor settings, and adjust the way the site appears to you by changing the block configuration. You’ll also find the site terms and conditions of use here, as well as the ability to autosubscribe to any thread you are active in.
History - You can add a biography here, to share what you would like others to know about yourself. It becomes part of your portfolio.
Personal Information - Currently, this includes an age-validation form, for filling in date of birth.
License - Here, you can choose a default license.
my newsletters - Manage newletter subscriptions here.
subscriptions - This is where you can manage your subscriptions to threads, blogs, categories, content types, and rss feeds, by clicking on the appropriate link in the submenu.
You can subscribe (or remove a subscription) to an item or category on the list, by checking or unchecking the box next to it and then clicking the save button at the bottom.
track - A convenient way to see your most recent posts.
contact - This is where other members can reach you by email.




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