Create your profile to promote your music!

Relate it to the insterment you play on a daily bases.

Ok, for those of you who made a profile, your results are in:

Andrew
Connor
Evan
Jen
Lecco
Myself
Seann
Vanessa

Check it out. These pages already rank for your names. A useful promotional tool, eh? I wasn't lying, YC really has power, and if you know how to use it, you can help promote your music. Come on people, we need more profiles!

Ok, for those of you who made a profile, your results are in:

Andrew
Connor
Evan
Jen
Lecco
Myself
Seann
Vanessa

Check it out. These pages already rank for your names. A useful promotional tool, eh? I wasn't lying, YC really has power, and if you know how to use it, you can help promote your music. Come on people, we need more profiles!

Chopin, I understand that the YC is a very popular site, but I have a thing against writing in the 3rd person about myself!! Unless you require it to remain a member of this site, I'd perfer to keep all information about myself on my personal web site.

Unless you require it to remain a member of this site,

Don't get me wrong, it certainly isn't required. I am just encouraging it. If you don't want to create a profile, that is your decision, I am just making it aware that the site is a good marketing tool, and the more profiles that are created, the more interesting this site will be in the future.

hi Chopin,
my name is Ben Mckay i just started a profile today but i'm having a few difficulties... i can't upload my picture for some reason maybe i'm just not doing it right, i've tried a few times and made sure i was logged in but i keep getting error messages... any ideas? also i'm wondering if we are allowed to put links to our personal webites in our signatures? i saw this in the post above so i'm guessing it is allowed.. also are we able to upload our mp3s to the YC site for the forum or for our profile pages? thanxs! Ben

You need to create an account to use with the wiki, Ben. Are you sure you're not trying to log in with your forum account details? And yes, you are allowed to put a link to your personal page in your signatures. And no, I'm afraid MP3s are not permitted to be uploaded because they use too many resources.

thanxs for the info mike!
I figured that we couldn't upload mp3's but just wanted to make sure.
I'm not sure if i have created a wiki acount or not... i created a log in name called "CitizenOfPlanetEarth" to login to the site when i visit....do i need to make a different acount upload files/pictures?... i just went to visit the YC archive and created another acount useing my name, is that what you mean by a wiki acount?... after i was in the archive section i went to the profile page i've been making and tried again to upload a picture with no success... a message popped up that read "cannot copy from ... to ....." the size of the picture is 23 kb and is in jpeg format, is that too big or not the right format?... any help would be appretiated thanx.... Ben

The jpegs should work, but don't worry about this now. In the future it will be much easier to create profiles using our social networking capabilities. I just realized the wiki is really for more advanced users, and the average user here won't be able to operate the wiki and just confuse them.

There is a really stupid reason why the jpeg won't upload, but to be honest with you, I forgot the reason. It might have something to do with the name of the file. Perhaps try naming the file without a space, just dashes?

thanxs chopin!
I fooled around with the name of the file and got it to work! the rest is no problem, i understand how to format text and such with the wiki, i just needed some help with getting the picture up... i'll try to finish my page later tonight if i get some time! thanxs again.. Ben

Hey Chopin, I'd really like to get started on this and get a page up, but I've never used Wiki before and your tutorial really doesn't tell me how to write pages, it just tells me what to do once I've created them. Should I create .TXT files using the guidelines at the bottom of the tutorial and submit them? I will appreciate any help you can give. I'm pretty computer savvy, so if you walk me through the process of creating my main page, I shouldn't have too much trouble. My profile is Jonathan Howie, my real name. I'd like to at least put up a works list and a photo.