How to recreate the features within this profile

Getting Started

Setting up my personal space

To set up the space I referred to the instructions for Setting up your personal Wiki

Uploading my own profile picture

-I clicked on preferences (Top Left hand of every page, near log in)
-Then clicked on the 'profile picture' link.
-I was having trouble uploading displaying a jpg from my mac laptop so I tried a couple of things
-I moved to a college PC
-changed the image size to 48x48px
-saved as a gif

When I got stuck with a few things

• I went to the excellent college technical support forum
• I described my problems as clearly as possible, explaining how I had already tried to solve the problems.
• My queries were answered within 24hrs (sometimes in 1/2 an hour!)
• If I wasn't sure how to describe the problem I could also have gone to the IT Help Desk in the LRC and shown them.

Changing Permissions- so others can work in my space.

eg to allow another individual user or specified group to be able to edit my personal space.
I went to Browse Space-> Space Admin->
From there I was able to edit permissions to add another individual user of my space so that they could see the code in my page.

General Contents Layout and Display

Changing the Layout and Colour scheme for the whole space

• Personal Space -> Browse Space -> Space Administration
• Click on Themes

Create a Table of Contents

I display a list of the the main sections of content in the page by: -
1. creating a heading for each section using h1.(Large) h2.(Medium) or h3.(Small)
2. inserting this code

{toc}

where I wish the table of contents to appear.

Macros allow you to include dynamic content in a page.

All the available Macros are listed here Macros
My profile page uses: -

• RSS Macro enables me to display feeds from two of my blogs.
• Gallery Macro turns all images attached to a [gallery wiki page I created] into a thumbnail gallery.
• Include Macro displays content from one page in another.
• HTML Macro see below.

To display my bookmarks as a del.icio.us tag roll (this would only work if you already use del.icio.us to create your online bookmarks.

• I went to http://del.icio.us/help/tagrolls
• logged in
• set the display options and copy and paste the script into your page within the HTML Macro tags.eg

  {html}<script type="text/javascript" src="http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/tags/ruthc?icon;count=47;size=11-22;color=;title=my%20del.icio.us%20tags;name"></script>{html}

How do I display a showreel online?

• You can either link to or embed flash video within your wiki pages if you upload your video to YouTube or (much more professional) Blip.tv (here you can also create your own TV channels).
• Alternatively you can attach quicktime movies (but these will take ages to download) like an image and then embed it in your page.