Post by Pixel on Dec 13, 2015 19:30:39 GMT
• GETTING STARTED
So, thinking about sticking around? We'd be stoked to have you, and you've got everything you need to get started right here! Before you dive into all of this, make sure you've read up on all the [Information]. It'll make stuff a whole lot easier. Alright, now let's get going!
REGISTRATION
This part's easy! If you're all ready to set up your account, then follow these steps and we'll get it all taken care of.
- The login center is right up top! See the Login and Register options? Go ahead and click Register!
- It's gonna ask for your e-mail next, so go ahead and fill that out.
- Next up's your username! Don't use your character's name for this part. Instead, use your own personal alias - like mine, Pixel!
- If your alias is the same as your character's, that's fine, too - but you'll still need two separate accounts!
- On a side note, please only use your alias and nothing else. No jumbled letters, numbers or any of that - we wanna keep things clean!
MAIN ACCOUNT SETUP
Sweet - that part's out of the way! Now let's go ahead and set up your main account. This is your out of character account and won't be used for posting in role plays. Instead, it'll be used to post character applications and all sorts of other OOC stuff!
- For starters, go ahead and click Profile up on the Navbar.
- This is where all of your account information is gonna be kept!
- Now, find the Edit Profile link and click that.
- Your icon comes first! Its dimensions must be at least 100x100, and the image you use for your icon cannot be animated.
- Now onto the Personal tab, where you'll edit your information!
- Your username must be the same as your username!
- Gender, Location, Website URL, Website Name, Status, Signature and Personal Notes are not required information!
- Your 250x300 hover image is the large image that appears on your profile page as well as beside posts you've made! Be sure to use an image cropped to those dimensions. Your hover image cannot be animated.
- Since this is your main account, your age and species aren't required, but you may fill those out if you'd like to! The same goes for the Application, Tracker and Plotter. If you'd like, you can place the URL inkd.boards.net/ in any of these fields so that they don't show up as blank spaces on your profile. Or use an URL of your own!
- For the Authored By field, simply use your own name and provide a link to your own profile in the Authored URL field.
- If you're using someone else's art for your icon or hover image, please provide a link to the original artists in the Icon and Hover Credit fields! We definitely want to properly credit artists.
- In the Profile Accent field, you can provide a color code from [here] and it'll show up on your mini profile when you post!
- If your accent color is light and difficult to read, simply paste the following code [text-shadow: -1px -1px 0 #505050, 1px -1px 0 #505050, -1px 1px 0 #505050, 1px 1px 0 #505050;] into the Custom Title Shadow field! Don't include the brackets, though!
- Now go ahead and save your settings!
- There's just one last thing - go ahead and click on the Settings tab, then scroll down and click the Yes bubble to Enable Drafts.
- Save your settings again and you're good to go!