Support for the companion "Designing Your Profile Page: A Tutorial" Thread

[G-man]

Support for the "Designing Your Profile Page: A Tutorial" thread

This is the companion thread to the "Designing Your Profile Page: A Tutorial" for customizing your profile page. If you have any questions regarding the tutorial or need general support for designing your profile page feel free to post them in here and one of our in-house experts will try and assist you as quickly as possible.

[CARLA]

These options don't seem to work for me?? of course I have no patience with this and want instant success.

[CARLA]

I can do that what I can't get to happen is the movement in the background like you have going on in yours.

[G-man]

Originally Posted by CARLA

These options don't seem to work for me?? of course I have no patience with this and want instant success.

You'll have to have images for this already uploaded to your profile in order to use images in your profile.

Background images must come from your albums. Enter the URL to a picture in one of your public or profile albums. Do not upload images, for use in your profile, into a private album or it won't show up.

I'll provide that tutorial a bit later on.

Originally Posted by CARLA

I can do that what I can't get to happen is the movement in the background like you have going on in yours.

This is getting a bit confusing... I'm trying to move your posts from the tutorial thread until I can get all the tutorials added in order so that I can keep it concise for members to easily access.

To create movement in the background, you'll have to use an animated gif. You can either create your own or use another free one that isn't copyright protected.

[Peg]

Any suggestions on good places for free backgrounds? You then have to upload them to something like photobucket to use them, right?

[G-man]

Originally Posted by Peg

Any suggestions on good places for free backgrounds? You then have to upload them to something like photobucket to use them, right?

I'll try to gather up a list of sites where members can locate copyright-free background images. If any members know of any please list them here.

Background images must be uploaded to your image albums.

Go to your User Control Panel > then under Networking click on the Pictures & Albums link. From here you have the option to Add a New Album or use an existing album.

Steps for creating a new album for use on your profile:

Fill in the descriptions for:
Title:
Description:
Album Type: This MUST be set to either Public or
Profile (Pictures used to modify your profile style) otherwise, they will not show up.

[Trunk Monkey]

I am trying to upload images from photobucket to create a new background album. Every time I try to upload, I get a message "upload failed". Any idea why this keeps happening?

[Carolly]

Originally Posted by Trunk Monkey

I am trying to upload images from photobucket to create a new background album. Every time I try to upload, I get a message "upload failed". Any idea why this keeps happening?

I have got that a few times doing a different Avater but found the picture still went through

[Chezzie]

Links to free Wallpapers for your profiles

http://www.free-wallpapers-free.com/Nature-p56.htm

http://somecodes.com/backgrounds/albums/misc/

[Trunk Monkey]

Originally Posted by Carolly

I have got that a few times doing a different Avater but found the picture still went through

Thanks Carolly and I had the same problems loading avatars but like you said they went through. They are not going through into my album however