MMA Community User Guide

*Please be sure to read the Terms of Service.

What is this place? What is the purpose?

Many of you are familiar with the popular trend of blogging on the internet right now, such as sites like livejournal.com. Well, this site is very similar, except we directly cater to the Mixed Martial Arts community. You can create your own personal page where you can keep a journal, display photos, host discussions, and chat with other fans and fighters around the world.

Creating your account and getting started

To create a new account, simply click here and fill out the form. An email will be sent to you with your password.
Once you have an account, login by clicking the "login" link on the main page, or by simply clicking here.
Once you login, you will be presented with a menu of various options to choose from. You will first want to edit your page so that you can set all your personal settings.

Editing your personal settings and profile

When you are viewing your page, you can switch to edit mode by clicking the link that says "Switch to edit mode". Once in edit mode, you can edit your personal settings, profile, add journal entries, forums, buddies, etc...
To edit your profile, click the link beside your username that says "Edit profile".
To change your personal layout settings, such as page colors, fonts, borders, etc... Click the link saying "Edit page layout". Please be careful with this. If you don't know what you are doing, you can possibly screw up your site. If you make a mistake, you can reset everything back to the default. Color charts, style tutorial links, and font recommendations are provided on the edit layout page.
To add a journal entry, click the "add journal entry" button. Whenever you add a new journal entry, you will be moved to the top of the list of users displayed on the main page.
To edit or delete a journal entry, click the edit or delete buttons below the entry.
To add photos or edit/delete photos, click the link below the main photo on the right side of your page.
To set an image as your avatar, switch to edit mode and go to the gallery edit page. Click edit for the photo you want and then check the box that says "make avatar".

Private / Instant Messaging System

You can access the private messaging system via the links in the top left corner of the main page and your own page when you are logged in. You must have an account and be logged in to use the private messaging system.
Sending a private message works a lot like most online email clients (e.g. Hotmail). From the main private message page, click on the link to send a new message. From there, you type in a subject, and a username to send to. Then, you just click send.
To add someone to your buddy list, enter the username into the form (on the main im page) and click the button.
To send a message to a buddy, simply click on their image on the list and you will be presented with the fields to type your message and send it.
To read your messages, just click on the subject name link on the main im page.
To reply to a message, just click the reply button.
You can create a custom message that will be displayed whenever someone sends an IM to you. To do this, click the link saying "edit away message" on the main IM page.
To create a broadcast list (mailing list), click on the link that says "Broadcast list setup". This will allow you to send one message to multiple users.
When adding users to a broadcast list, separate multiple usernames with a semicolon (;)
To send a broadcast message, click the link saying "send new broadcast message" on the main IM page. Then, choose the list from the drop down menu and enter your message.

Forums

To add a forum, switch to edit mode on your main page and click the add forum link.
To delete a forum, switch to edit mode and click the delete button beside the forum's link.
When viewing a forum, you can add it to your favorite forums list by clicking the link that says "add to favorites". Your favorite forums are accessible through the menu at the top left of your screen, and are also displayed in the forum list on your page.
You can remove a forum from your favorite forums list by clicking the remove link beside the link to the forum.

Buddy links

This list is similar to your IM buddy list, but separate. This is a list of your friends or buddies who you would like to link to on your page. Adding a buddy to this list will display that buddy's avatar with a link to their page.
To add a buddy, click the link saying "Add buddy" while viewing your page in edit mode.
To delete a buddy, switch to edit mode and click the delete button below the buddies avatar.

Searching

The system search can be found by clicking the "search" link on the main page, or clicking here.
You can search usernames, locations, and journal entries.

Privacy list

Your private list is a list of users who you want to allow to view private journal entries. When you check the "private" option on a journal entry, only people on your private list can see that entry.
To add someone to your private list, or delete someone from your private list, click the link titled "edit private/block list" on your page when in edit mode, or click here.

Block list

Your block list is a list of users who are blocked from sending you instant messages, posting on your forums, and viewing your page.
To add someone to your blocked list, or delete someone from your blocked list, click the link titled "edit private/block list" on your page when in edit mode, or click here.

Abuse / what to do?

If you notice someone abusing the system, please contact jhedges immediately.
Examples of abuse include spamming the site with commercial advertisements, uploading pornographic material, engaging in illegal activities (pirated software, copyrighted photos, etc...), and harassing people on forums or through private messages.
Please read the terms of service for more info on abuse.

Tips & Tricks
You can use HTML code in your welcome message, journal entries, forum posts, and private messages. The following is a list of HTML codes for common tasks. Where user, replace [USERNAME] with your username.

To create a link to your site, type
<a href="http://www.ufighting.com/mmacommunity/viewuser.php?username=[USERNAME]">link title here</a>
To create a link for users to send you a private message, type
<a href="http://www.ufighting.com/mmacommunity/im.php?command=new_im&to_user=[USERNAME]">send me a message</a>
To create a link to any site, type <a href="http://www.whatever.com">link title</a>
To create a link for people to send you an email, type <a href="mailto:your_email@server.com">your_email@server.com</a>
To embed an image, first make sure the image is hosted on a website, then type <img src="http://www.whatever_website.com/image.jpg"> - of course, replace whatever_website.com/image.jpg with the real path to the image on the web
To make text bold, just enclose it in and tags. Like this is bold becomes this is bold
To make text italic, just enclose it in and tags. Like this is italic becomes this is italic
To change the color of some text, enclose it in and , like this is red becomes this is red