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We are now located here: GAIA Online Profile Guide v.2
Listing of the Sections

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User:
This listing is on the top right hand side of the page. Here you can find the person's username, Avatar, and items which the avatar is currently wearing. This also contains an Online Status bar which holds the Friendslist button, PM, Trade, and Ignore button. You can also place a Speech Bubble containing a message for all your guests to read. When clicking on an item here, a preview of your avatar wearing that item will also show up.

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About:
BB-Code enabled, this is an area with which one could express who they are with ease. Writing anythng down about yourself, just make sure it's PG-13. wink Oh, and before I forget...this also lists the user's current posts, guilds, and their store.

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Details:
Here lies the infromation about your actual account, listing everything one would need to find info about you:
Location
Birthday
Occupation
Interests
Website
Last login
Total Posts
Posts per Day
Member Since

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Friends in Common
When browsing profiles you may see some avatar headshots in the details section. These are the friends you have in common with the user's profile you are viewing. Basically, you can see how you and another user are connected to each other.


In short, you see who they are friends with, which are your friends. Connection biotch.

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Friends:
This list is optionable since you could make it so that only friends can view it, no one can view it, or everyone can view it. It takes a quater of the avatar image and places it in your list, each one link to the other's profile.

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Friends Page

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Wishlist:
The wishlist is fairly easy to set up. It also offers an in-depth review of each item as well as a link to current bids/sales in the Marketplace. Once you find an item listed on a user, simpily click the item and state that you want it as a Wishlist item by pressing, "Add to Wish List". From there is a drop down list stating these options:
Show Publicly - Yes or No
Current Status - Wanted, Questing, Bought or Donated

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Wishlist Page
Store items can be previewed here, donation items/event items/etc can't.

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Journal:
Here lists your header, description of your journal, and your latest three entries.

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Multimedia:
(flash only)
Like to play with flash? Have a short clip that you want to show to others? Post the url for it in the multimedia section. Multimedia falls under the same size & copyright guidelines as signatures. For more information see this thread

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Comments:
Here you can say a random comment your friend, or even have an interesting conversation there. Profile owners can delete posts and posters can delete their posts. BBCode enabled.

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Comments Page

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Add a Comment

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Signature:
This one is kinda self-explanitory...it shows what you have in your signature.
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Setting up your Profile

To edit your profile click User Image.

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Once you click onto that link, you'll recieve a page that will look like this. To the right of Rina, as you can see, are the links to where you can edit your settings.

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This is what you'll get Once you click the Account link on this page.

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This is the list that will show up once you click the link called "available" on the main Account Edit page, shown above.

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Here you can setup if you want to be notified when you get a new PM. You can also set up if you want to be able to recieve PM's from other users, yes this means you can't send on to yourself.

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The About page, here lies the space provided to give you a chance to let other users see who YOU truely are.

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This is a preview of the Details Edit Page, the second link.

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This area allows you to set up the preferences for your Friendslist.

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Your Comments section...here you can set preferences to your Comments section. >_>

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The Multimedia section, here you can place .swf files to play in your Multimedia slot in yor profiles. No tags are needed, just the URL. If you want to see what one looks like, look at my Profile. Random links are working for this area. There is no real limit to the size limit, but try to keep only small flash things in there...and when I say small I mean in size...wait...that doesn't sound right...

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It simple really, you find a site that contains a flash. Either download the flash and host it yourself, or link it from that site. Normally to find the flash on a site, you would need to view it's source, you can do this by right clicking the window the flash is in and then searching for .swf

Once there, copy it and paste it tinto your Multimedia section of your profile. You can also use Radnom Links in it, just like I have in mine.


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Flash files under 100k is pretty unrealistic, we're still throwing around ideas on policy concerning multimedia. The general guideline for now is keep it small.


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It's similar to the Signature section on the Edit Profile page. Work your magic.

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Links to Current Skins/Themes:
Classic
Blocks
Grunny
There is also a kiki theme that is unreleased along with the feature to create your own CSS Extended Profile theme. Please see the link in the Links section for a current CSS code listing.

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Wishlist page...it's fairly easy to use since here is where you can change the items in your wishlist (just click the items in your wishlist, press add to wishlist, and then change their settings). I have used a mule for this case since I have items I want people to guess which are in my wishlist. ;D
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You can also click on the items which the other user is wearing. Some even allow you to see what they would look like on you.


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You could try searching for the item here:
http://www.tektek.org/gaia/items.php

and if it has this button User Image next to it, you can use that to add items.

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Updates:
10/11/05 - Offically open.
10/15/05 - Sections updated
10/20/05 - Remade the third post due to image changes + Added How to view onto Second Post
11/14/05 - Updated once again since the new layout and CSS enabling
12/11/05 - Added "Unknown Profile Info!", Updated Link List, Checking for Updates in Profiles.
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This will be very useful.

Prince Leopold's Fangirl

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I wish there was a easier way to add things to wishlists though. D:
indeed, but it gives the user a challange to find their items, just as they would to find a real item. Plus, they show the current item (how many) on the marketplace.
You seem to know a lot about the new profile system, mind if I ask you some questions about it?

I'm having some trouble with it X)
In the new system, it shows titles of journal entries that I deleted.
(They were not mine, a stupid friend of mine made corny entries on my account.)
Is there any way to get rid of that? (They were embarrassing entries with dumb titles, I don't want my friends seeing that >_< wink
(Something a bit separate) Is that any way to delete the whole journal and not just the entries?

Also, there is a option of others seeing your most recent posts. Is there anyway to get rid of that? I don't really want my friends seeing my most recent posts.
Gah...sorry for the late reply. The only thing I can suggest if that you go into the "My Entries" section of your journal and Edit those entry titles. As to the second question, no...there is no way to delete a Journal as a whole, but you can make it friends only or not viewable at all save yourself. As to the part about your recent posts...no, there is no way to remove these unless you deleted them which wouldn't make much sense.
Thanks for the help, I managed to edit the titles. Sadly not before some of my friends might have seen them. Now all I have to do is get over the embarrassment if they have seen them.

Thanks again for your help whee
Glad I could be of service.

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