The
"Profile" Tab in the User Control Panel is where you set your forum identity. The tab has four menu items:
"Edit profile" is where you can add, delete or change information about yourself. It's all optional, if you don't want to fill in any of this information just leave it blank. The only thing that isn't obvious is that you can, if you want, just enter the day and month of your birthdy. If you do that then the home page will mention that it's your birthday on the appropriate date but won't show your age. If you do set the year then your age will be shown on your profile.
If you change anything on this (or any other) page remember to click the "Submit" button at the bottom."
Edit signature" allows you to enter a short piece of text (up to 120 characters) that will display at the bottom of every message you post on the forum. You can format the text as you do with normal posts using italics, bold text etc.
"Edit avatar" is where you set your "avatar" (the small picture that appears next to each of your posts). We have set the avatars for many of you already to be the same a you had on the old forum. If you don't yet have an avatar and would like one or if you want to change the one you have this is how you do it:
Click the
"Display gallery" button and when a page of butterflies appear click the small downward-pointing arrow beside the word "Butterflies" to select a category. Currently you can choose from: "Butterflies", "Cat breeds", "Dogs", "Flags", "Garden", "Musical" and "Old_Avatars". The last category, as you might expect, consists of most of the avatars used on the old forum. Pick a category from the list and then click the "Go" button. There are a lot of avatars in these categories so they may take a while to display. Dig around as much as you want until you find something you like. Click the little circle under the picture you like and then click the "Submit" button right down at the bottom of the page.
If none of the hundreds of avatars takes your fancy or if you want something more personal there is the option to install one of your very own. First you will need a suitable image stored on your computer no bigger than 80X80 pixels. Then on the main "Edit avatar" page click the "Browse" button. Find the picture you want to use and click "Open" and then back on the "Edit avatar" page click "Submit". If you have any problems just email us at
admin@symiforum.com and we'll sort it out for you.
"Edit account settings" allows you to change your password to something more memorable that the random one you were issued with. It also lets you change your email address and we encourage you to keep this up to date. Note that your email address isn't visible to other users and we will never send you spam or pass on your email address to anyone else,