Tips for new players to the forums

Hi there,

Thank you for joining the Flying Solo forums – you’ve made our day!

We’ve put together this list of handy tips to help you get the best from your time here and suggest you spend a few moments working through them before making your first post.

Set up your signature: Your forum signature appears underneath your posts, so anyone who’s interested in your products or services will know where to find you. To set yours up, head to the Control panel, and choose Signature. Please keep your signature short (4 lines, 200 characters max) and professional. Adding a tagline and linking to your business website is fine, but no more than three links are permitted and no images please.

Show us your face: We’d love it if you personalised your profile by uploading a headshot to appear alongside your posts. First crop your picture to be 80 x 80 pixels and no more than 19.5 KB, and then head back to the account area and choose personal details and upload an image from your computer, upload the file, and save your changes.

Personalise the rest of your profile: Also in your account area, choose from the menus to enter a little more info you’d like to share about yourself and your business (including where you’re based), and include links to your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and Pinterest accounts. (Hint: When linking to your social media pages, make sure NOT to include http:// and to scroll right to the bottom of the page to save the changes you’ve made).

Read up on the rules: To help get a handle on how things work around here, please have a read through of the forum community guidelines, and this brief introduction to forum etiquette.

All done? Right-oh, you’re ready to make your first post! We recommend you start by introducing yourself and your business to the rest of our community by starting a new thread in the New Members section of the forum. Once that’s done, feel free to jump in and get amongst it.

And if you have any questions, please send me a private message (PM) – I’m here to help and will respond within 2 working days, probably sooner ☺.

All the best,

Jayne and the FS Crew

I can't find the signature setting you mentioned. Have I overlooked something or is this a feature available only to premium members?

Hi Jayne,

Thanks for the tips for my profile for the forum.

I am wondering if there is any way I can receive alerts about messages and threads with particular topics that are relevant to my business?

For example, I would like the opportunity to read and respond to anyone with queries about labels, stickers and new businesses needing help with their printing needs, such as business cards and flyers.

Can you please let me know if and how I can track these forum discussions?

Many thanks,
Jenny

Hi. i still can't find control panel despite all my attempts, can someone point me in the right direction please because its not at the top left of this page.

thnx
Mona

Thank you Peter I found it!

Hi I was reading a post about this forum over on the Warrior forum so I decided to check it out as I am also in Australia. I have posted a little about myself in the introduce your self section. I realy like the lay out of this forum and it seems that you have a pretty big following also, so congratulation on that as well.I will visit the other forums when i get time and post if there is any thing I can help people with .Thanks in advance for letting me join.Sincerely Andrew Aidulis

Thanks peter .
I think my other introduction post got edited I Didn't read the posting rules lol but all is good.Hope I didn't tread on any ones toes by plugging my website .Have read the rules now . Will certainly join any discussions that I can add useful advice or help with.I did put a signature in my profile but it doesn't seem to be showing. Will have another look ma-bee i did it wrong or something.Cheers Andrew.

Hi, not sure if this is the correct section to ask this but I cant get my pic to show on the forum. In the control panel the pic I selected is there but it also says 'no picture selected'.

I have resized it to 80x80 and 18kb.

Cheers.

Nick.

Hi guys,
It's good to join this forum. Recently moved to Melbourne from NZ, I have been looking for a local platform for a while. FlyingSolo looks great. I am glad I've made it here.
Cheers,
Rena

I'm glad you posted this article.
I would upload a picture of myself but having seen and read about identity theft I avoid doing so, I hope you all don't mind me using an avatar

Hi,

Is it possible to change my username? I've somehow ended up as Samantha-c which isn't one I would have picked, at least not without a capital C! Please can you point me in the right direction for doing so?

Many Thanks,
Sam

Hi
I have just sorted out an issue with Lisa's kind help which had my email address showing instead of my user name. The first post I made on a topic is still showing the email address. Is there somewhere I can delete the post?

Cheers
Joe