Community
Community (login) page shows Latest Members, Recent Activities of the Design Football community and Recent Group Activities.
Profile
Profile page is where your personal profile and your applications will be displayed. A User Profile picture can be displayed from your images and it will be automatically resized.
The top on the right side of the page display your profile details. You may edit it through the edit button. Under the Profile details, shows the status updates of your Friends and a button to list all your friends
Your profile name will display some details. Karma, Member since, Last online and Profile view(s). Below them, you may update your status, such as what are you currently up to, etc. This board will also update you with any incoming message or friend request.
Moving on, you will find four modules buttons. First is "invite friends" button to allow you invite friends from your contact email by keying in your friend email. Next are "Add Photos", "Add Apps" and "Start a Group" Button.
Other than above, the Profile page also display other details. First is the update of the users latest activities. Continued with the list of applications that you have added on.
Karma
Karma is a user point-system used in Design Football. It shows how active you are in Design Football. Karma will only be activated only when you have uploaded a picture in your user profile. Otherwise, you will forever have no Karma points.
Groups
Under the groups tab, shows which groups you currently join. You will only be able to see the Groups if you have added the Groups application. Go to Application ---> Edit, and add the Groups application.
Photos
Shows images you have uploaded to your Profile. You will only see images if you have added the Photos application. Go to Application ---> Edit, and add the Photos application.
Wall
In Wall, you and your friends (at current time of writing, others too) are able to leave a comment on your Profile Page. You will only see the comments if you have added the Walls application. Go to Application ---> Edit, and add the Walls application.
Design Football's Wall supports youtube. You can post Youtube videos by typing { youtube}code{/youtube}
Let's say the Youtube link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXM2XoZMom4
To paste the Youtube video on the Wall, you do this
{ youtube}DXM2XoZMom4{/youtube} (no spaces)
result
Custom Fields
In user profile custom fields, for those text field that represent a url link (e.g. Home Page), you can add the string 'http://' follow by your url address, e.g. 'http://www.footballshirtculture.com. During value display in profile page, the string value will automatic converted to clickable hyperlink.
Application
There are many applications on jomsocial. You can choose which application you would like to have on your account.
List of Applications
These Applications will activate the features on your Profile. For example, to be able for you or others to comment on the Wall, you will have to activate the Wall Application for Jom Social.
Feeds
- Enable RSS
Groups
- allows you to display your groups that you are subscribed to and manage your groups
My Blog
- enable you to write blog entries at your Profile
Photos
- allows you to upload and display Photos at your Profile - at present, only allow for single upload of photos
Walls
- allows you and other people to comment on your Wall at Profile Page
My fireboard updates
- allows you to create and manage forums
My Twitter updates
- get updated on twitter
To see the list of applications, go to Application --> Browse
To edit it, go to Application --> Edit. Here, you will be able to:
1. find out what are these applications for
2. setting each of the application based on your preferences
3. set the arrangement of applications by dragging it (ctrl + drag up or down).
4. adjust the privacy setting of each application
5. remove the application that you do not want to use
Personal Messaging
Designfootball's personal messaging system allows you to send a message to any site members easily. There are 2 ways to send a message, via your own inbox or by click on user's profile and write a message.
Groups
You can join and participate in groups easily. Before you can post on the group wall or create a discussion, you will first need to become a member of the group. Click the "Join Now" to join your group.
To manage Group that you joined, go to Application --> Group.
Here, you can view the current groups, search a group as well as view groups that you have joined. You can also create a new group.
Group
Announcement
Announcements lists all bulletins you with to make to the group. Announcements does not support replies. Only Group founder can Create Bulletin for Announcements.
Discussion
Discussion lists all discussions anyone posts in the groups. Discussions support replies from group members.
Wall
Wall supports Wall posts from members of a group. Wall also supports Syret (hence youtube videos). Only Group founder can Remove Wall posts.
Photos & Media
To manage your photos, go to Application --> Media.
Here, you can upload new photos, browse them and create photo albums.
Blog Interface
MyBlog's Frontpage
MyBlog's Toolbar
- Home
- Tags
- Search
- Feed
MyBlog's Dashboard
- My Entries This tab lists all your blog entries. There is also a button "Write New Entry" which if clicked will call up the editor for you to add an entry.
- Preference A section for you to input a description for your personal blog.
- Stats This tab will display the statistics for your blog.
- Comments Here you can manage the comments on your blog entries. Provided that you have JomComment installed.
MyBlog's Editor
- Title Field This is where you enter the title for your blog post.
- Main Body The main text entry area.
- Sidebar
- Publish Information Here you can set your post either to be published or not as well as set the date for the post.
- Tags Here you can tag your blog post with tags, to organize them into groups.
- Images and documents The interface to upload images to the site and place them on your posts.
- Search older posts You can search older posts to look for posts with similar entries as well as look for entries to quote.
- Embed videos A tool to embed videos into your posts.
- Save button To save your entry you can click the save button. There are two available, "Save" and "Save & Close". "Save" will just the entry and keep the editor open, while "Save & Close" will save the data and close the editor afterwards.
- Close button This button will close the editor. Make sure you have saved everything for closing the editor with this button won't save your data.