I thought I would make a guide that covers all the features of the UCP and what they do. I will try to be descriptive but most of this stuff is self explanatory if you just look at the screenshots. This post we will only cover the 'Overview' tab of our 'User Control Panel'.
How do I even get to my UCP (User Control Panel)?
If you notice in the first screenshot below. On every page you visit on the website you will find your 'User Control Panel (# new messages)'. If you click on the 'User Control Panel' this will take you to just that. If you click on the messages portion it will take you to your inbox of your private message area.
The control panel has a large play in your experience here and how you view and display things/info for or about yourself.
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This is generally a overview of your account activity. There is nothing you can really do on this page accept go to the favorite and popular posts.
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Subscriptions are nice if you always want to stay in formed in what is going on in a thread because it will send you a email upon every post to your topic you are watching. Be careful not to subscribe to too many topics because you could get a lot of emails if they are active threads. But if you posted something and you really want to know when people respond this is a good way to keep track of this.
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Bookmarks. I like this option personally, it lets you bookmark posts that you like to visit often or like to use for informational value. And it's a quick way to get to these posts just in case they get buried under a bunch of other posts. All this does is mark the post location, it doesn't send you mail on response to the topic area (which I personally like). It will however have a icon change color (should be green) to let you know there is a new post in the thread since your last visit to it.
You bookmark a post by entering into the post and scrolling to the bottom of the page and you will see a 'bookmark topic' link. Just select that and now it will be added to this list. You can remove bookmarks as well from this window.
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All this page is for is when you are posting a message in the forums and you see that 'Save' button along with the 'Preview', 'SpellCheck' and 'Submit' buttons. What the save button does is let you save a draft copy of your post to use again at some point. This area just lets you manage those draft copies.
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The personal albums page (which everyone should make a personal gallery so we can see what ya look like
). But as you can see the interface is quite simple you can create, edit, delete and go to your gallery.Create - Of course creates a gallery
Edit - Lets you edit the description of your gallery or what the pics are for
Delete - Delete a gallery
Go To - This will take you to your personal gallery and show you what the user sees.
The data and screenshots will be updated when changes are made.
