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Table of Contents
Introduction
About Us!
Unknown Info on Profiles!
Updates!
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Multimedia Help
Listing of the Sections
Setting up your Profile
Links
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Ze Profile "Helpers"
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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

MANY months later, the second website was created to help those who were either on a slower connection, didn't have Flash or just plain wanted an HTML version. The HTML site is located here: http://gopg.tutsumi.com

Table of Contents
Introduction
About Us!
Unknown Info on Profiles!
Updates!
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Multimedia Help
Listing of the Sections
Setting up your Profile
Links
Want to Link here?
Ze Profile "Helpers"
Reserved -

4/3/06 - Added onto the Multimedia section.
3/18/06 - Reworked the setup. Added FAQ.
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

Table of Contents
Introduction
About Us!
Unknown Info on Profiles!
Updates!
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Multimedia Help
Listing of the Sections
Setting up your Profile
Links
Want to Link here?
Ze Profile "Helpers"
Reserved -

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 that is currently a .mp3 or .wav etc 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. This has seem to have moved into other threads around GAIA. It has also come to my attention that pictures of .fpg/.jpeg can be shown in the Multimedia section even in Firefox.

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. ^_^

(The secret to downloading from Youtube is to take the Permalink, let's use for an example: http://youtube.com/watch?v=4cSRpu7bI04 and edit it slightly to read: http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=4cSRpu7bI04
In other words, you take away the watch?v and replace it with get_video?video_id to download the .flv file. WARNING! You must, when you are saving it, add .flv to the end of the filename or else it won't work. You can view these files on a FLV Player)

Youtube.com
(Download videos from Google, Youtube, iFilms, etc. onto your computer)

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/v/NS5MeYRKdv0
That makes people have to click to play.
[For this one, you'll have to use the permalink at the bottom of the video ie: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NS5MeYRKdv0"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NS5MeYRKdv0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
From there, simply remove the HTML coding to just leave:
http://www.youtube.com/v/NS5MeYRKdv0 and then you have your URL.]

http://www.youtube.com/v/NS5MeYRKdv0&autoplay=1
That makes it start off automatically.

OR
(If you're one of those wierdos who play by the rules)

Let's say I searched for a video, and just took it from the URL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=assyALISZJc&search=trace%20adkins

From the Peralink they give at the bottom of the video, I can change it from

this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=assyALISZJc

To this: http://youtube.com/v/=assyALISZJc which allows me to play it in Multimedia. This makes it start only when the user veiwing the page clicks the button to play it.

If by chance you want to use the same video, but want it to automatically start loading/playing as soon as the user visits the page then you can add &autoplay=1 to the end of it to cause the video to create an automatic loadup.

In other words, http://youtube.com/v/=assyALISZJc becomes http://youtube.com/v/=assyALISZJc&autoplay=1

Also, if you would like to loop your videos, that's also possible just by adding &loop=0 to the end of it. You can also have it start automatically and loop by adding &autoplay=1&loop=0 to the end of it.

Google Video
Click here for a post pertaining to this.

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.

Table of Contents
Introduction
About Us!
Unknown Info on Profiles!
Updates!
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Multimedia Help
Listing of the Sections
Setting up your Profile
Links
Want to Link here?
Ze Profile "Helpers"
Reserved -

To edit your profile click .




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.




This is what you'll get Once you click the Account link on this page.


This is the list that will show up once you click the link called "available" on the main Account Edit page, shown above.




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.




The About page, here lies the space provided to give you a chance to let other users see who YOU truely are.




This is a preview of the Details Edit Page, the second link.




This area allows you to set up the preferences for your Friendslist.




Your Comments section...here you can set preferences to your Comments section. >_>




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...








It's similar to the Signature section on the Edit Profile page. Work your magic.




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.




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

Table of Contents
Introduction
About Us!
Unknown Info on Profiles!
Updates!
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Multimedia Help
Listing of the Sections
Setting up your Profile
Links
Want to Link here?
Ze Profile "Helpers"
Reserved -

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