5 <div
class="helpfiles">
6 <h3
>Why would you want to have a profile?
</h3
>
7 <p
>Your profile serves two purposes
:</p
>
9 <li
><b
>Firstly
</b
> it tells others a little bit about you
</li
>
10 <li
><b
>Secondly
</b
> the system automatically creates links from your profile to others who share the same interests
, likes
, dislikes
, goals
and skills
!</li
>
12 <p
>It not only creates links to other people but also resources
- this helps you find information which could help with your studies
and research
!</p
>
14 <h3
>How to
do it?
</h3
>
16 <h4
>>> Select
'Edit this profile'</h4
>
17 <img src
="/help/images/profile_to_do.jpg" alt
="How to do it?" title
="How to do it?" width
="369" height
="104" border
="0">
19 <p
>Fill in the fields that you want
, don
't worry about information you don't want others to see
, you can control this
.</p
>
20 <img src
="/help/images/profile_field.jpg" alt
="Example Profile field" title
="Example Profile field" width
="450" height
="131" border
="0">
22 <p
>Beside each field you will see an option that says
"Access level" and it has a dropdown
list of choices
: Public, Logged in users
, Private.
23 This controls who can see your profile items
.</p
>
24 <img src
="/help/images/profile_access.jpg" alt
="Profile access options" title
="Profile access options" width
="450" height
="170" border
="0">
25 <p
>For example
, if you don
't want anyone to see your address set the 'Access Restriction
' to Private and so on. (You can create your own access levels by going to 'Your Network
' - 'Access controls
')'</p
>
27 <p
><i
>Note
: Any fields you leave blank will not show on your profile page
.</i
></p
>
29 <p
><i
>Note
: The profile field
'Brief description' is used to populate your sidebar profile
- see image below
.</i
></p
>
30 <img src
="/help/images/sidebar_profile.jpg" alt
="Sidebar Profile" width
="302" height
="206" border
="0">
31 <p
>Remember to scroll to the end
and click on
<b
>Save your profile
</b
>!</p
>
32 <img src
="/help/images/save.jpg" alt
="Save your profile" title
="Save your profile" width
="249" height
="48" border
="0">