Your profile
Wouldn't it be great if your readers knew a bit more about you and if you knew a bit more about them? Their interests, where they live, what blogs they read and who they consider friends? With Blog-City Profiles you can. Everyone has one and you can pick what information you allow others to see.
The Profiles section represents a major aspect of the Blog-City Community. It has been designed in such a way as to allow jumping from profile to profile with ease, finding users who share the same interests with you or who fall under certain demographics groups.
Edit your profile
Your Profile administration area can be found at http://www1.blog-city.com/common/mailbox/. Simply login with the same email and password you use to login in to your blog. From here you can change every aspect of your Profile.
My Details
Display: This field controls what your name will be, to the public. This is the name that your entries will be posted under, and the name that will appear associated with the comments you leave on entries or other profiles. And of course, this is the name that users will see when they visit your profile page.Email: This is the email address associated with your profile. Make sure you keep this address always up to date, as it's the main means through which we communicate with you. Most blog notification tools use email, and this is the address they use. This address is not public.
Change your password: This will open a new page, where you'll be able to change your password to a new one.
My Profile
My main description: This section allows you to write a short description about who you are, your personality, past present and future, and/or any other kind of information you feel like sharing with the world. Maybe tell people what your job is, what it involves, what annoys you, what makes you laugh, what makes you sad. Anything you want! This is the first part of your profile which the users will read. Keeping this interesting is a very good idea.
My profile and demographics: Here things are really starting to warm up. In this section you can add general info about who you are. Unlike the Tags section (read more about it below), these fields are of a more concrete subject. Here you set your location, date of birth, gender, relationship status, number of children (if any), sexual orientation, body type, height, ethnicity, religion, drinker/smoker status, education level, political stance, occupation. A whole lot of info!Maybe even too much for some users. While we do recommend that you complete as many of these as possible, we realize that not everyone feels comfortable with sharing all these details. The default settings are to not display any of this information. Fill any fields you want to appear on your public Profile page, and leave all others set to -Not Displayed-.
My music, books, movies, interests: Tags are a special aspect of the Profiles. Unlike the Description field, which is normal text, tag words serve to directly connect users together, as well as inform. By clicking on any of these tags, you'll be presented with a list of users who share that same interest with you, allowing to find like-minded people (and maybe even new interesting blogs, if they have a blog of their own!)
The tags are divided in four groups, General, Music, Movies/TV and Reading. In each of them you can put up to 50 tags, which can be either single words, such as "beer", or word groups, such as "Bill+Murray" (the plus sign links those two words together, so they can be searched for as a single object). Don't worry about organizing the tags in any order, since the system automatically sorts them alphabetically.
My favourite blogs: Here you can list your friends' blogs and other blogs you read often. When you go to someone else's blog you will see in the Login Console portlet a link to "Add this blog to your favourites". This automatically adds that blog to your profile's favourite blogs. If at any time you wish to remove them from your profile, just uncheck the check box beside each blog in this section.
View my public profile page: Click on this link to see what your profile will look like to other visitors.
Your MailboxThis small dialog shows whether there are any new unread messages waiting in your mailbox. For more information about the mailbox, read the Mailbox support page.
Your Photo
Clicking on the link in this section will open a new page, through which you can choose a new picture to be associated with your profile, or remove an already uploaded one.
Your Comments
Clicking on the link in this section will allow you to read comments you have left on different blogs, so that you can review them.
Miscellaneous
Visitors to your profile: This shows the number of visits your profile has received. Clicking on the number will allow you to reset it to zero.
Receiving visitor notifications: There are two options for this setting, Yes or No. If set to Yes, an email notification will be sent to you whenever a registered user visits your profile, providing you with a link to that user's profile, so you can return the visit, and maybe stop over for cookies and tea.
Notes waiting for approval: Other users can leave notes in your profile page. Before these notes are made public, though, you need to approve them personally (so as to keep out unwanted ones). If there are any such yet-unapproved notes, you'll see them displayed here. Clicking on the link will display a list of them
Unsubscribe from mailing blog lists: You might have subscribed to different blogs, so that you are notified whenever new entries are posted in them. Clicking on this link will allow you to unsubscribe from all of them in one go.
If you want to remove yourself only from a particular mailinst list, though, you can do so by clicking on the appropriate link in any of the notification emails you receive from that list.
Unsubscribe from comment pings: Often, when you leave a comment on a particular entry, you'd like to know when someone replies to your comment, or simply when the discussion is updated. To do that you can subscribe to that particular entry's comments list, and thus be notified if someone posts a new comment. Clicking on the link in this section will remove you from all of these mailing lists.