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

G-man · Post by **G-man** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:59 am

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 · Post by **CARLA** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:07 pm

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

[QUOTE]background tiled images, and gradient images... for each aspect of your profile[/QUOTE]

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:16 pm

I can do that what I can't get to happen is the movement in the background like you have going on in yours. :-5:-5

G-man · Post by **G-man** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:22 pm

CARLA;967951 wrote: These options don't seem to work for me?? of course I have no patience with this and want instant success. :wah:

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.

CARLA;967958 wrote: I can do that what I can't get to happen is the movement in the background like you have going on in yours. :-5:-5

This is getting a bit confusing... :p 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 · Post by **Peg** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:22 pm

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

G-man · Post by **G-man** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:45 pm

Peg;968013 wrote: 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 · Post by **Trunk Monkey** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:52 am

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? :-5

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:56 am

Trunk Monkey;974860 wrote: 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? :-5I have got that a few times doing a different Avater but found the picture still went through

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:35 am

Links to free Wallpapers for your profiles

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

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

Trunk Monkey · Post by **Trunk Monkey** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:37 am

Carolly;974868 wrote: 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

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:53 am

Chezzie;974939 wrote: Links to free Wallpapers for your profiles

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

http://somecodes.com/backgrounds/albums/misc/
That will come in well handy......fanks mate;)

Trunk Monkey · Post by **Trunk Monkey** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:37 am

Chezzie;974939 wrote: Links to free Wallpapers for your profiles

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

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

Thank you very much Cheezie!

G-man · Post by **G-man** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:55 pm

Trunk Monkey;974948 wrote: 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

Trunk Monkey;974860 wrote: 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? :-5

That generally occurs when an image is too large or the album is too full... sometimes it'll go ahead and upload the image and you may still get that error message.

Trunk Monkey · Post by **Trunk Monkey** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:24 am

I have photos in my photobucket album that I want to upload to create a new FG album. Every time I try to upload the pics, I still get "upload failed". When I try to upload pics from photobucket to a new album here, what should I copy to do this:

Share Url, Direct likn, HTML code, or IMG code?

Or is there a way to transfer pics from my photobucket album over to my EasyShare pictures? :-5

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:31 am

On the right hand side of my profile, I have those 5 bars for mini-stats, visitors, albums, group memberships, and recent visitors. I would like to lower them on my page or have them removed all together (as I have all that info on my page already) because these bars cover my username. Can you help me, please?

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:50 pm

along-for-the-ride;975898 wrote: On the right hand side of my profile, I have those 5 bars for mini-stats, visitors, albums, group memberships, and recent visitors. I would like to lower them on my page or have them removed all together (as I have all that info on my page already) because these bars cover my username. Can you help me, please?

Pretty please?:)

G-man · Post by **G-man** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:20 pm

Trunk Monkey;975786 wrote: I have photos in my photobucket album that I want to upload to create a new FG album. Every time I try to upload the pics, I still get "upload failed". When I try to upload pics from photobucket to a new album here, what should I copy to do this:

Share Url, Direct likn, HTML code, or IMG code?

Or is there a way to transfer pics from my photobucket album over to my EasyShare pictures? :-5

Upload the images from your computer.

along-for-the-ride;975898 wrote: On the right hand side of my profile, I have those 5 bars for mini-stats, visitors, albums, group memberships, and recent visitors. I would like to lower them on my page or have them removed all together (as I have all that info on my page already) because these bars cover my username. Can you help me, please?

The image is too large. I don't currently see a method for other customization options.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:33 pm

I did make my picture smaller just now. Thanks, G-Man.

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:06 pm

Sorted mine out:Dabit quiet and reserved but thats me:D

:driving:

G-man · Post by **G-man** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:29 pm

Carolly;980071 wrote: Sorted mine out, a bit quiet and reserved but that's me:D

:-2:rolleyes::wah:

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:19 pm

Carolly;980071 wrote: Sorted mine out:Dabit quiet and reserved but thats me:D

:driving:

Its dreadful........Barbra Cartland eat yer heart out:D:-4