Proboards Guide

Here I'll be explaining a bit about how to upload a good avatar and how to edit your display name and find where to edit your signature, as well as explaining a few of the other features available on this forum.

First, however we must locate the profile. While in posts you can simply click a user's name to be taken directly to their profile; you can also view your own quickly by clicking the Profile link located below the banner.



You can also view/send messages here. New messages will be indicated by a bubble beside the Messages link with a number listed there. As I am an administrator for this website, I have an additional link labeled Admin. 



Once you have clicked the Profile link, you will be taken to your personal profile page. Here you can see a summary (email, gender, posts made, how much money I have, when I registered, etc), my recent activity (any recent forum posts I've made), who I'm following, my friends, groups I'm in, my notifications, and an option to gift myself. 

You can follow people to be notified when they make a new post, and you can gift people either forum money or a handful of silly little prizes, like cookies and splash balloons. If you're looking at someone else's profile, their notifications will be hidden from you, as will their gender and email address if they have chosen to hide those.

You will notice a link that says Edit Profile. We'll be clicking that. 



The new page is immediately open to changing your avatar. As this avatar will be seen beside each of your posts, it's obviously important to think long and carefully about what you want to use as a substitute for you. It really doesn't matter, use a box with googly eyes for all I care.

While you can design your own avatar using the Use Only Default Avatar link, I prefer not to use a paperdoll maker. So, instead, click the Uploaded/Linked link.




I currently find uploading an avatar to shrink it, despite increasing the size cap. So, instead, the best course of action is upload your avatar to an image hosting service (Photoshop, Imgur, Tinypic, etc.) and direct link it instead.

Once done, it should automatically save and you should see your new avatar (your new face on the forum) looking back at you!

Now, we're going to click the Personal tab at the top and check out what fields in there we can edit.



Here you can edit your Display Name, your gender, your location, etc. Your display name is what others will see whenever you post in the forums or appear online. You can also add a signature here using BBCode. Check the section on BBCoding if you're not sure how that works!

There are other tabs in which you can edit settings, such as Social, Settings, Privacy, etc, but you can check out those on your own time! This was just a quick guide to get you started.

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