Getting Started Guide
Welcome to SoFurry! This article is designed to get you started as a brand new SoFurry user.
Probably one of the first things you will want to do here is set up your user profile so others will know a bit about you as you explore and meet new friends. You can edit your profile by clicking the Settings link at the top left hand side of the screen under your username. The image at the right shows the location of the settings link as well as many of the locations of important features of SoFurry. If you would like to learn more about the different areas of the main page visit the quick tour, otherwise read on!
When you click the Settings link (indicated by 5 on the image to the right named The Sofurry 2.0 Interface) the main screen will change to user settings page.
Their are a lot of settings available to you that let you customize the way SoFurry looks and behaves to you and to people who visit your user page or profile. For now we will just set up the main items so that when other SoFurry users visit your profile they can learn a little more about you!
Setting up your Profile
Now that you have the settings page up it's time to set a few parameters. At the top of the settings page their is a set of links titled Site, Account, Display, Profile, Browse, Privacy Settings, Notifications, Forums, and Chat. For now we are just going to set some basics so click the link titled Profile.
The image to the right of this part of the article shows the top part of my profile page. If you scroll down the page you will notice a lot of things you can fill in. For now lets just enter in the basics so you can get started exploring SoFurry!
- Species: Enter in whatever species or race you feel is your primary fursona (furry personality). This is just a text entry box so you can enter in anything you like. Some examples might be Orca, Fox, Dragon, Deer, Foxtaur . If you have a custom race name (like shown) you can also fill that in.
- Gender: Is your primary furry personality Male, Female or a Herm? (Both Male and Female) If you would rather not say or you don't have a sex you can choose N/A here.
- Mateship Status: This is a drop down box that lets you choose whether or not your fursona is in a relationship and your views on accepting new ones. If you would rather not say you can choose N/A here as well.
- Profile text: This is a large paragraph type area that you can tell us a bit about your self. You can talk about what your fursona looks like, what kind of family he or she has or whatever you like. (This area should be kept 'clean'. If you know what the motion picture associations ratings are for movies consider this rated G for general audiences.)
- Adult profile text: This is another large paragraph area where you can enter in an adult profile. ProTip!: If you don't want to have an adult profile you should copy the information from the Profile text box above into this one. That way people who have adult profiles turned on will at lease see something about you.
Now that we have some general information about you entered lets click the Save(all tabs) button at the bottom of the page and add an avatar or two to your profile.
