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that looks like our friend Pawel...he is the one we chat with in my thread 3nodding ...hes a sweety xd

Hopefully they'll add in the post count bit soon if enough of us complain. Wonder if there's an official feedback thread?

Feel free to ask specific questions and let us help you! I haven't experimented with everything yet, but like for backgrounds, when you click it in the little box, it brings up links for Gallery, photobucket, or url. You can browse through the gaia gallery and try out various things by clicking update under each picture and then X-ing out the box to see how it looks. Or for adding pictures, you can apparently add as many as you want (each little piece of sushi on my profile is a different image!) and then after you X out the box to see the picture added, you can click and drag it anywhere. And if you want to layer them so the right ones are over or behind the ones you want, the last one you move will show up on top, so I had to do quite a few different drags to get my sushi to look right. You can X-out boxes or areas you don't want showing, and add in others (like houses) under the Content part. When you're done, just click View at the bottom to see how it looks. I don't think anything can be messed up that can't be fixed!

Which things did you drag? If you're moving the boxes with stuff like friends in them, sometimes that can be hard to get it to go where you want. It will often show a black line where it's going to go if you're moving it between other boxes, and if you miss, sometimes it'll drop to the bottom or something. I had to try lots of times to rearrange some of my boxes.

For the pictures you add, you can just drag the image, but make sure not to click the X in its corner unless you want it gone, or the Edit in its title, because I don't think there are options yet for editing the images like you can the box titles. Did that make sense?

You're using IE or mozilla right? If it's AOL, I'm not sure if the dragging works the same, or at all. I've never used that.

i found that trying to load a background through the photobucket link didn't work, but it did when i pasted a tinypic link into the url section, so that's ok then blaugh

i added a couple of images, that it a bit fiddly though i must say, but we'll work it out eventually,
and yes it is Pawel that i put in my profile, i didn't realise that you put your friends wherever you want in your profile, he's got me and jelly and lots of others in a row down each side on his.
i may investigate further at the weekend, see how much i can customise mine xd

Cool thanks! I didn't know. smile Will have to go add it for all my mules now too. I also didn't see the link to your store you could add before! But with the tangodanser image on both my storefront and my siggie, that seemed a bit superfluous to show my siggie on there, so I took that one off.