Welcome to Createblog! New Members Guide & FAQs Options

[karmakiller]

This guide is a work in progress.

Welcome to Createblog! This guide was created to help you become familiar with this community. Hopefully it will help you be less overwhelmed and make the forums more enjoyable. If you do not find the answer to your question here do not hesitate to ask.

Table of Contents
GETTING STARTED
POSTING
MEMBER GROUPS
PERSONAL SETTINGS - "My Controls" and "PM System"
YOUR PROFILE - "My Account"
TRACKER

[karmakiller]

Personal Settings

• This portion will discuss MY CONTROLS and the PM SYSTEM, please make sure that you can locate these. Both can be found in the top right-hand corner. The "My Account" portion will be covered in the next post.

My Controls

How do I customize my member profile information?
Click on "My Controls", from there click on "Edit Profile" (found on the left-hand side under the title: Personal Profile.)

How do I customize my member profile picture?
Click on "My Controls", from there click on "Edit Profile" (found on the left-hand side under the title: Personal Profile.)

How do I customize my member title?
By default your member title may say something like "Senior Member". To change this go to "Edit Subprofile", the first box is where you can type whatever you'd like you member title to say.

How do I customize my signature?
Click on "My Controls", from there click "Edit Signature" (found on the left hand side under the title: Personal Profile.) Customize accordingly, but remember there is a 300-pixel limit of vertical maximum space (equivalent to 20 lines of text) and a 548-pixel limit of horizontal maximum space (to prevent stretching of the forum). Graphics in your signature should also add up to less than 100kB in file size.

Why should I create a signature?
Your signature personalizes every post you make. Other members may remember you by your signature, so make it unique!

How do I customize my avatar?
Click on "My Controls", from there click "Edit Avatar Settings" (found on the left-hand side under the title: Personal Profile.) Then upload your own avatar, or use one preset by cB. If your avatar is too big for CB to host, then upload it to a site like TINYPIC.

PM System

How do I send a PM to another member?
You have three options: First, you can find a post that the member that you wish to contact has left on the forums. Click on their username and select "Send Message". Second, you can click on the person's profile (this is helpful if the person has left you a comment on your profile) and select "Send Message", located under the person's personal photo. Third, you can click on "Messages" in the upper right hand corner and select "Compose Message" and enter the person's username.

How do I save messages to my sent items?
When composing a message select "Add a copy of this message to my sent items folder" and the message will be saved.

How do I check the status of messages I have selected to track?
Simply click on "Message Tracker", which can be found on the left-hand menu of your messenger.

Help! I keep receiving PM spam, what can I do?
First, block the user. You can do this when viewing the messenger by selecting "Block" next to the sender's name. You can also block the user if you are reading the message by click on the sender's username and selecting "Add to PM block list".