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Tutsumi

PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:51 pm


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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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Tutsumi

PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:55 pm


Unknown Info on Profiles!
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: Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:57 pm


Updates!
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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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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Tutsumi

PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:54 pm


Listing of the Sections

Table of Contents
Introduction
About Us!
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Updates!
Listing of the Sections
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Links
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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: Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:56 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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Tutsumi


Tutsumi

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Want to Link here?

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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Tutsumi

PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:03 pm


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

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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Unofficial Profile Helpers

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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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Elindranyth:
Specializes in design, visual appeal and basic coding.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:04 pm


Multimedia Help

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Updates!
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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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