1.5. Setting Your Preferences

After logging in, to set your personal preferences, click the preferences choice to the right of your name:

You will see the personal preferences panel:

Date entry fields include:

• full name - If your name is common, include your middle initial or middle name.
  
• email address - REQUIRED - You may receive emails from the web site system, or from a message board, if installed, etc.
  
• location text box - This is the name of your city, town, state, province, or whatever you wish to provide.
  
• language preference selection menu - Plone excels at offering multilingual support.
  
• biography text box - Enter a short description of yourself here, about a paragraph or so in length.
  
• home page web address - If you have your own web site or an area at a photo-sharing web site, for instance, enter the web address here, if you wish, so people can find out more about you.
  
• content editor selection menu - If you create many web pages, consider use of an "external" text editor, which would allow you to edit body text with it, instead of the visual editor included in Plone.  This is mainly for web designers and programmers who do more editing of actual code, but it could be useful for volume page creation using specialized text mark-up languages.
  
• enable external editing checkbox - This is for switching on and off the external editor mentioned above. Of course, it does nothing if no external editor has been selected above.
  
• listed in searches checkbox - Uncheck this box if you do not want to be listed in searches.  Normally you would want to keep this checked, because having open communications is an important goal of most Plone web sites.
  
• portrait photograph upload - The portrait photograph will appear as a small image or thumbnail-size image, so it is best to use a head shot or upper-torso shot for this.
  

You can change your preferences whenever you wish.

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