Userpages and Customization
Frequently Asked Questions
Userpages and Customization
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is a userpage?
- » Every member of Minitokyo has his or her own userpage, available at http://username.minitokyo.net/ where username corresponds to his or her login name. This page serves three main purposes. First, it serves as a showcase of a particular user's work. Second, it serves as a user's homepage on Minitokyo and allows visitors to learn more about a user through customizations made to the page as well as information provided by the user about him or herself. Third, it serves as a means to communicate with the user, both through the guestbook and through private messages.
- How can a userpage layout be customized?
- » Two excellent userpage layout tutorials created by Minitokyo members can be found in the Userpage Customization Showcase forum: * Custom Userpage Tutorial: Photoshop Edition, by exentric * Custom Userpage Tutorial: Paint Shop Pro Edition, by belmikry
- How can the content of a userpage be changed?
- » You can customize the content area of your userpage by going to the Customize Userpage Content button in your Control Panel. Customization is done using XHTML, which is the standard markup language for websites on the Internet. There are many good tutorials on XHTML both on the internet and in print that you can take a look at if you are unfamiliar with it.
- What is an avatar?
- » An avatar is an image of your choice that is used as a graphical representation of yourself. To set your avatar, go to Personal Options in your Control Panel. Click the "Browse" button in the Avatar section to locate your avatar of choice from a local drive on your computer. URLs are not permitted. Once you have selected an avatar, click on the "Update Settings" button and you should be all set. Note that avatars need to be exactly 50 pixels by 50 pixels in size and in GIF file format. You may not use an avatar created by another person without their express permission.
- What is a signature?
- » A signature is a body of of text and/or an image appended to the end of every post you. To set your signature, go to Personal Options in your Control Panel. In the "Signature Text" box, feel free to enter whatever text you want for your signature. If you would like to include an image, click the "Browse" button to locate your signature image of choice from a local drive on your computer. As with avatars, URLs are not permitted. Once you have selected an image, enter [sigimg] (including the brackets, with no closing tag requried) where you would like the image to appear amidst your signature text and hit "Update Settings" to set your signature. Note that your signature image must be at most 486 pixels wide and 60 pixels tall, and must be in GIF file format.
- What is a personal photo?
- » A personal photo is a picture of you in real life that is displayed on your userpage. You can set your personal photo in your Personal Options in the same manner that you set your own avatar.
- What are private messages?
- » Private Messages (also known as PMs) are messages sent between two Minitokyo users through the internal mail system. PMs are akin to e-mail as they are pieces of personal correspondence that can only be read by their intended recipients, unlike guestbook posts (which are publicly viewable). To send a PM or read PMs you have sent or received, click on your Private Messages button in your Control Panel.
- What are the watchlist, friendlist, and hotlist?
- » * The watchlist is a list of members whose contributions you wish to remain updated on. As such, you will receive notifications for wallpapers, art, scans, and reviews submitted by members on your watchlist. * The friendlist is a list of members who you consider your friends. As such, you will receive notifications when they create threads in the forums so you can participate in discussions that they begin. You will not receive notifications when they submit wallpapers, art, scans, or reviews. * The hotlist is a new section on Minitokyo which allows you to view other member's personal photos on your userpage which you consider to be worth flaunting. They will be shown on the left side bar, with a link to that particular member's userpage, that other members will be able to view on your userpage. To add people to one of your contact lists, click on the appropriate link in their profile page. Note that everyone who you indicate as a friend who has also indicated you as a friend will appear on your profile page under the Mutual Friends list.
- What is the category watchlist?
- » If you would like to be notified whenever there is a new submission for a particular anime series, you can add it to your category watchlist by going to the My Anime button in your Control Panel. There, you can also indicate your personal rating of the anime, whether you have watched the entire anime, and whether you own the entire series.
- Another browsing skin appears in place of my custom one. What do I do?
- » In the Control Panel, go to Skin Builder. You'll find that all of your UP color values are still in there. In the Featured Anime box, take out the 0 and put in 417, then click Build Skin at the bottom. (417 is for unknown. If your skin's off a specific featured anime, you can find and input that specific category ID later.) Then go back to MiniTokyo Options, scroll down and find your skin among all of the Unknowns, select it, click Update. If this doesn't work, make a thread in the Bug Reports forum (if one doesn't already exist on the same problem).