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lil_Shiro125
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:49 pm


Introduction
Welcome to the new guide that shows you everything about the new profiles which are being implimented.

Posting in here makes me feel all nice and good inside.

Annoucements
�Mutlimedia Help is listed in the Table of Contents, click that to take you to it!

�We are now compiling a list of Profile Helpers. To join, send me a Private Message with the following code:
Username:
Speciality:
Reason why you want to help:


(Feel free to add a link to here into your signature or tell your friends about this place.)

We have an offsite webpage (made with Flash) that will hold a new generation of this thread.

Flash Site | Old Thread | HTML Site (Coming sometime...dunno when.)

Table of Contents
Introduction
About Us!
Unknown Info on Profiles!
Updates!
Listing of the Sections
Setting up your Profile
Links
Want to link here?
Ze Profile "Helpers"
Multimedia Help
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My public profile (beta) [REPORT ERRORS HERE]


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twobit
10/12/2005 8:33 am
your profile guide is pretty spiffy, very well done

You are visitor number User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. since 12/24/05.
Before we left the old thread (12/23/05), we had 244 people since 12/19/05.

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:50 pm


About Us!
Table of Contents
Introduction
About Us!
Unknown Info on Profiles!
Updates!
Listing of the Sections
Setting up your Profile
Links
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Ze Profile "Helpers"
Multimedia Help
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The night of the pre-released Extended Profiles a user, Tutsumi, had the idea to use this new system and create a tutorial that would help people understand this system. He created a thread located in the Extended Feedback forum, a subsection of Site Feedback and a ghost forum for Questions and Assistance. Here the tutorial was soon in the company of a Multimedia tutorial and several CSS guides. This thread is located here: http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10439216

Many weeks later, Profle Discussion was created. This ignited an interest in the "creator" of this tutorial to help spread the word in the best place possible. Upon asking several people, mainly moderators, he finally was able to move it here, in PD as it's so fondly called.

A month or so later, a website was created to help people remember an easy place to look for this guide. The main site would consist of FLASH and would then have a company of a HTML site (Still in the works). This FLASH site is located here: http://profileguide.tutsumi.com

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lil_Shiro125
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lil_Shiro125
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:52 pm


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Table of Contents
Introduction
About Us!
Unknown Info on Profiles!
Updates!
Listing of the Sections
Setting up your Profile
Links
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Ze Profile "Helpers"
Multimedia Help
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twobit
Tutsumi
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Actually mp3s work in IE but not firefox. Not sure why but they do.

I was wondering if this is what should happen.

IE does a lot of things that they shouldn't, there's only so much developers can do cry


twobit
Tutsumi
You say banned sections in the Change Log, what do you mean by that?
What is the Wishlist limit now?
Optional questions:
Will you collect a list of common CSS codes and list them out like B5 did for GAIA Towns?

Banned sections meaning if a mod disables a specific section. Wishlist limit is around 300. Common codes is possible but the users are already providing that.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:53 pm


Updates!
Table of Contents
Introduction
About Us!
Unknown Info on Profiles!
Updates!
Listing of the Sections
Setting up your Profile
Links
Want to link here?
Ze Profile "Helpers"
Multimedia Help
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1/3/06 - Added the Multimedia Help Section
12/24/05 - Re-did the Links section, Added Table of Contents
12/23/05 - Remake of OLD THREAD
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lil_Shiro125
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lil_Shiro125
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:56 pm


Listing of the Sections

Table of Contents
Introduction
About Us!
Unknown Info on Profiles!
Updates!
Listing of the Sections
Setting up your Profile
Links
Want to link here?
Ze Profile "Helpers"
Multimedia Help
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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

Interests
There is a system in place which sllows people to search for people with similar interests. If you would like a direct linking, here it is!
http://www.gaiaonline.com/profile/index.php?view=search.ShowSearch&item=

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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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PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:58 pm


Setting up your Profile

Table of Contents
Introduction
About Us!
Unknown Info on Profiles!
Updates!
Listing of the Sections
Setting up your Profile
Links
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Ze Profile "Helpers"
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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.


twobit
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.


Chema
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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lil_Shiro125
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lil_Shiro125
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lil_Shiro125
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:05 pm


Ze Profile "Helpers"
Say it in some funky french accent to make it sound sexy.

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Tutsumi:
Specializes in Multimedia and doodles in CSS coding
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Mwa:
Specializes in Web Programming and Web Design...
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Specializes in design, visual appeal and basic coding.

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Multimedia Help

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Let's get you started!

For the Multimedia section of the Edit Profile page, you must only place in a URL, no coding is needed. The only URL which you have to place in, would be the URL that gives the DIRECT access to the file. This means there won't be any ads or anything else, just the pure file.

If you have a movie or song you would like to place as a .swf file, you can use a program I use called SUPER Fever from download.com. This program is completely free so don't worry about it. It also converts almost every type of audio and video file into .swf. The Extended Music thread in the Gaia Guides and Resources forum has a tutorial on this after I recommended the author to add SUPER Fever to his list.

IF you have Macromedia Studio, you can make the song in there and tweak it to your heart's content and then save it as a .swf file. ^_^

Youtube.com

On Firefox (FX): Go to the page playing the multimedia and left click on a blank space. Once you've done that, click on View Page Info and click on Media. Search for something with .swf in it and then left click that. Press Copy. Paste it onto something and then add http://www.youtube.com in front of it.

On Internet Explorer (IE): Right click a blank space and then click on View Source Code. Search for .swf by using the Edit button and then clicking Find. Once you've found the link, do the same as what I've stated for FX.

Here are two codes:
http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=lF3QcYJ1PfQ=144
That makes people have to click to play.

http://www.youtube.com/player.swf?video_id=lF3QcYJ1PfQ=144
That makes it start off automatically.

The only real difference is the /p.swf? versus the /player.swf?.

Other sites
It's simple for the other sites really. Just take the .swf the same way you'd do for youtube.com (this way is listed above.) If the link is for some reason too long, use SNIPURL.com to make it shorter.
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lil_Shiro125
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lil_Shiro125
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:09 pm


Body Codings

These place a background over the entire page.

To view this background through the top layer of the page (the stuff where all the info is) you must have the code to remove the content background.


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body
{background: url('http://your image url here')}

Changes background color for ENTIRE page.

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body
{background: #000000}

Changes background image for ENTIRE page.

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body
{background: #000000 url('http://your image url here') no-repeat fixed left;}

Adds background to the ENTIRE page (including that little grey space to the right.)

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body
{font-family: place three fonts here a coma seperating each;font-size: 12pt;color: #000099}

"font-family" changes the font type on the page to the fonts you specify. In this coding you can also change around the font type, size, and color for the entire page. You will need to use three fonts, these fonts should be separated by comas, the first being your prefered one. You should use three incase the user viewing your profile doesn't have the first font on their computer. I suggest using "Site Safe" fonts.the first being your prefered one.
"color" changes the color of the text, once again I suggest using "Site Safe" colors.

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body
{background: #000000 url('XXX') no-repeat fixed left;font-family: Comic Sans MS, Arial Black, Times New Roman;color : #000000;text-align:justify;}

"text-align" tells where to align your text. Justify makes it regular, but you can use Center, Right, or Left.

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Header

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#extendedProfileBody #header h1
{ background: #000 url( image URL goes here ) top center no-repeat; border: 0px; }

This lets you change the main header image.

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.section #profile,#details,#journal,#friends,#comments,#multimedia,#wishlist,#signature,#about h2
{background: url(your image url here) top left no-repeat;text-align: left; text-indent: 5px; color: #000; height: 30px;}

This sets properties for ALL of the block headers - profile, details, wishlist, about, etc. So if you want them all to use the same font colour, background colour, be the same height, etc. you can just put those here instead of repeating them in every header. Saves characters, and since there is a limited number of characters you have to do this, that's a plus.

lil_Shiro125
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lil_Shiro125
Captain

PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:12 pm


Content

This will put in a background color or image up to the right border. (before the grey space)

Quote:
#content
{background: #000000;}

This code changes the background color.

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#content
{background: url('http://place image url here');}

This code changes the background image.

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#content
{background: #000000; url('http://your image url here') no-repeat fixed left;}

This code changes the background image and color in the back of where you would have your sections.

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#content
{ border-left: 2px dotted #000; border-right:
2px dotted #000; border-bottom: 2px dotted #000; }
#extendedProfileBody #header
{ border-right: 2px dotted #000;
border-left: 2px dotted #000; border-top: 2px dotted #000; }

This puts a border around the most commonly modified major profile section.
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Sections

The sections are basically just that - sections of the extended profile. They contain the data for basically all the items displayed individually. Bacause everything is linked to this class, all sections become uniform based on the section here untill additional customization,.

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.section h2
{color: #0044cc;}

Changes the font color in ALL headers.

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.section #profile,#details,#journal,#friends,#comments,#multimedia,#wishlist,#signature,#about h2
{background: url(your image url here) top left no-repeat;}

Changes the header image for all sections
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.section
{font: 8px verdana;color: #8DA9D4;background-color: #B6CAD5;background: url('myimage');border: 1px dashed #8DA9D4;}
.section h2
{color: #8DA9D4;font-size: 14px;}

font: This follows the format "(size)px (font type)". Replace (size) with the font size and (font type) with your font of choice.
color: The font color of everything in your sections.
background-color: Changes the background color of the sections.
background: Change the "myimage" in the parenthesis to an image URL to get a background image in your sections. Remove this line if you don't plan to use it. NOT RECOMMENDED.
border: Follows the format "(size)px (border style) #(color)" - replace (size) with the border width, (border style) with either "solid", "double", "dashed", or "dotted", and replace (color) with the border color.

[ .section h2 | The H2 tag is used with each tag in the sections (Wish List, About, Friends, etc.). ]
color : Changes the color of the section tags.
font-size : Changes the size of the section tags

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.section { border: 2px dotted #000; }

This puts a border around each of the sections.

lil_Shiro125
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lil_Shiro125
Captain

PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:15 pm


Profile

The "profile" section contains your avatar, status bar, what you're wearing, and your message. There's a few things that can be customized here.

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#profile h2
{color: transparent;}

Changes the font to transparent in a specific header. (or you can replace transparent with a hex. code ie. "#000000" to change the font color.)

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#profile
{color: #000000;}

Changes the font color for a specific box, in this case the "profile" box where your avatar and items are shown.

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#profile ul.items
{display:none;}

Removes items underneath your avatar.

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#profile .caption
{color: #000000;background: #000000;}

Changes the font color and background color of the comment boxes. To change the quote box background color use

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#profile
{ a:link (color:#0044cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none); a:visited (color: #0044cc; font-weight: bold;text-decoration: none); a:active (color: #F9121E; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none); a:hover (color: #F9121E; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline):}

Changes the link color, weight, and text-decoration for a certain section.

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#profile
{border-color: #000000;}

Changes the border color. (Same for: details, wishlist, about, friends, journal, comments, signature)

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#profile
{background: #000000 url('http://your image url here')}

Changes the background picture in the profile section. [likewise you can do the same for: details, wishlist, etc. just replace the "profile" with the section you wish to place the picture in.)
If you wish to simply change the color erase the "url-----" part and replace the "000000" with the hex. code for the color you wish to use.

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#profile h2
{background: url('http://your image url here') top left no-repeat;text-indent: 150px;}

Changes the header image. (likewise you can do the same for: details, wishlist, etc. just replace the "profile" with the section you wish to place the picture in.) If you wish to simply change the color erase the "url-----" part and replace the "000000" with the hex code for the color you wish to use.

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#profile .caption
{ color: #000000; }

Changes caption font color or you can replace the "00000" with a different hex code to change the font color.

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#profile .caption
{ background: #000000; }

Changes the background color of the profile quote box.

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#profile .caption
{width: 100px;height: 67px;background:url('http://your image url here')#000000center no-repeat;}

Puts a picture in the caption. (Or background if you remove the "center no-repeat") Please note that if your image is taller than the height of the normal quote bubble you will need to change the height specification.

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#profile h2
{background: url('your new avi image') no-repeat left bottom; height: 190px;}
#profile img.avatar{width:0px; height:0px;}
#profile #bar
{margin-top: 10px;}
#profile .caption
{top: 50px;}

Replaces your avatar's image. However, this will move the "online status" bar below the avi picture and you CANNOT have a image for the profile header. Meaning no code that says "#profile h2 etc." besides this one or it won�t work.

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#profile
{background: #000 url('http://your image url here') no-repeat left center;}
#profile .avatar
{filter:alpha(opacity=0);opacity:0;}

Deletes your avatar's image and replaces it. However, you must note that your new picture is actually your profile background picture, just centered. (or not centered if you have the image size worked out right.)

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#profile
{background: #000 url('http://your image url here') no-repeat left center;}
#profile .avatar
{opacity:0;}

Deletes the image of your avatar.

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#profile h2
{ font-type: helveltica; }

Changes the font type for a specific header, in this case the "profile" header.

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#profile
{color: #000000;}

Changes the font color for a specific box, in this case the "profile" box where your avatar and items are shown.

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#profile h2
{color: transparent;}

Changes the font to transparent in a specific header. (or you can replace transparent with "#000000" to change the font color.)

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#profile #bar{height: 22px;margin-left: 12px;}

The status bar, you can change height and indent with this code.

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#profile .avatar{position: relative;}

This code changes the position of your displayed avatar. This can be either "relative" or "absolute". In the instance of "absolute", you need to include the additional tags "top" and "left", and use those to position.

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#profile .caption{background-color: #000000;border: 2px solid #000000;}

With this code, you can change the background color of the caption in the Profile section as well as fixing up the border for that perticular section. The border section of this code follows the format: "(size)px (border style) #(color)" - replace (size) with the border width, (border style) with either "solid", "double", "dashed", or "dotted", and replace (color) with the border color.

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#profile .caption .message{color: #000000;font-size: 12px;}

With this code you could change the caption font and size.

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#profile {background: url('http://your image url here')}

Change background by using a picture (repeating).

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#profile {background: url('http://your image url here') no-repeat}

Change background by using a picture (no repeating)

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#profile .caption
{top: 50px;}
#bar #onlineButton {width: 60px; background: transparent url(ONLINE Graphic URL Here) no-repeat; text-indent: -5000px; height: 22px;}
#bar #offlineButton {width: 60px; background: transparent url(OFFLINE Graphic URL Here) no-repeat; text-indent: -5000px; height: 22px;}
#bar #hiddenButton {width: 60px; background: transparent url(HIDDEN Graphic URL Here) no-repeat; text-indent: -5000px; height: 22px;}

#bar #addButton {background: transparent url(ADD Graphic URL Here) no-repeat;}
#bar #msgButton {background: transparent url(PM Graphic URL Here) no-repeat;}
#bar #tradeButton {background: transparent url(TRADE Graphic URL Here) no-repeat;}
#bar #ignoreButton {background: transparent url(IGNORE Graphic URL Here) no-repeat;}

#bar #addButton a {width: 33px; background: transparent url(ADD MouseOver Graphic URL Here) -22px -90px no-repeat;}
#bar #msgButton a {width: 29px; background: transparent url(PM MouseOver Graphic URL Here) -22px -90px no-repeat;}
#bar #tradeButton a {width: 28px; background: transparent url(TRADE MouseOver Graphic URL Here) -22px -90px no-repeat;}
#bar #ignoreButton a {width: 34px; background: transparent url(IGNORE MouseOver Graphic URL Here) -22px -90px no-repeat;}

This is a bit of a complex code, so if you don't know your way around on Gaia (Or Internet, I should say), then perhaps asking for some help would be good. If you don't want a portion or image to be changed, then merely omit it.
This long list of code, my friend, changes your Status Bar.

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#profile .caption
{left: 110px;width: 40px;top: 80px;background: url('XXX') no-repeat center;}

This code here gives your Caption an image as a background. For Left, Witdh, and Top, you can use your own px's, this is just an example.
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