How to enter your profile management in the members area

Enter in your profile members area from the login page providing your Identification Number (or your Username if you chose/have one) and your password.
Once you have logged in, under the top page menus will appear a line that says that you are recognised as your username: by clicking on that linked username you will be redirected immediately inside your members area.

How to change your password or choose an username

Once in the members area:

• Change your password scrolling the members area page and locate the item that says: password. Put your new password in the text area beside and click the button. Wait for confirmation alert. Passwords must respect a few rules for your own safety.
• Change or choose an username by scrolling the members area page and locate the item that says: username. Put your new username in the text area beside and click the button. Wait for confirmation alert.

How to sponsor your poster in the front page

To make your poster eligible to be randomly picked from a pool of posters fit to appear in the front page of Full Poster, first compile it in all its parts (guidelines below), then once in the members area click the button Sponsor.

How to populate your poster typology and make a map

Once in the members area click on the Typology Management button.

Once in the Typology Management page, choose your profile main category from the menu on the left, the menu on the right will be populated with subcategories: choose one or more from it too. To choose more than one subcategory, hold down your keyboard CTRL button as you select. Be a bit patient if the selections may take a few seconds to appear.

Scroll down and choose from the countries your country. Wait to see appear in the menu beside it the regions and choose your region.
To choose a city, click on the initial letters of your city name from the menu beside the regions, and wait for the cities to appear in the last menu: then select your city from such menu.

To generate a map, see the area with the button labeled Click here to generate the map.
Before clicking it provide an optional street address, if you want, in the text field above that button, and a zip code in the text field beside the mentioned text field.

The map is a Google map. Have a bit of patience: it may take a while to generate the map you want, and Google does not cover all geographical areas yet, but once done it will be there always. Keep trying, or settle down for an approximate location if you prefer.

Once done go at the bottom of the page and click the save button.

How to put images in your poster

Once in the members area click on the Texts and Images Management button.

Once in the next page, on the left of the page after the instructions there will be a button that says Browse: click it and in the pop up dialog box (which is a dialog box generated by your operative system and not by Full Poster) and locate in which folder on your computer your image is located. Then double click it once located.
Then on the website page click the button that says: add image.

How to write the texts for your poster

Once in the members area click on the Texts and Images Management button.

• title: put a title for your profile. This can be important also as far as the search engines impact of your profile is concerned, so use keywords here.
• subtitle: an optional line that describes better your product or your activity, or a slogan.
• summary: it is necessary that you populate this field if you want to appear in the website lists of profiles. Describe briefly what your profile is about and be sure you insert at least 2 lines (ideally more).
• email, telephones, web address: self descriptive names.
• Description: this is the main description text of your profile. If you know html or css you can use some formats (described in the instructions there). If you don't also plain text is fine. Carriages returns are automatically preserved. Shortcut to make a text bold surround it with curly brackets {bold}. Shortcut to make a frame box, surround the text with two vertical lines |text|. Shortcut to make a header surround text with square brackets [text].
  Use the html PRE tags to insert preformatted texts <pre>text</pre>: that will appear as text written on a different background color box (that is, there shortcuts won't apply).

Once done go at the bottom of the page and click the save button.

Blogs, Polls, Chatrooms, Favourite websites, and the other features

Once in the members area click on the buttons that leads to their features. Follow then the instructions present on the pages.
If you have done a profile, managing those pages could be even easier than managing your main profile.
You do not need to use all the options. If you are not sure what an option is for, it probably means you don't need it.
However, you are encouraged to try them at least once to see what they do: do not be intimidated by the abundance of options on some pages, they are meant to serve all your profile blogging and self promotion needs, and the learning curve is both mild and fun.