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[Tony_Weiss Administrator]

We now have a new feature called "Profile Badges". Your Profile Badge is a customizable badge that allows you to display information about yourself whenever you post in the community. You can include your avatar, kudos count, community rank, post count, and latest post. You can also create badges that you can display on Blogger pages, on Wordpress pages, or on other website pages.

To create a profile badge:

1) Go to My Settings > Social Connect > Badge Settings > Profile Badge

2) Click the check box for Display your profile badge on your posts

3) Choose one of the themes provided. You keep the color scheme from the theme you choose.
4) Click check boxes for the items you want to display on your badge. The Preview on the right side of the page shows you how your badge will look.
5) Click Save Changes.

That's all there is to it!

To create a Blogger badge:

1)  Follow the instructions above for choose a theme and content for the badge.
2) When you're satisfied with the preview you see, click Upload to Blogger and follow Blogger's instructions for incorporating the badge.

To create a Wordpress or website badge:

1) Follow the instructions above for choose a theme and content for the badge.
2) When you're satisfied with the preview you see, copy the code at the bottom of the page and paste it on your Wordpress or other website page.

[dickevans Super RootKit Eradicator]

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[mikedov Regular Contributor]

See mine

One tip, do not let non Symantec employees have the same theme as the employees. Don't know if this is intended but the moderntech theme is the same theme used by most forums admins. Thus, I suggest it to be locked for non employees to avoid confusion.

[noghere Keylogger Crusher]

.... and mine!

Thanks Tony_Weiss.

[Andmike]

I agree with mikedov the Symantec staff should have a different theme from others.

Which is my excuse for not changing mine yet.  ;-)

[Axios Super Spam Squasher]

Very nice feature!!!!

[Tony_Weiss Administrator]

I'll work on that. I'm not sure if it's possible at this point, but it's a good idea. Thanks.

[noghere Keylogger Crusher]

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dickevans wrote:

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Hi dickevans,

How did you change the background color of your Profile Badge?

[lmacri Super Phishing Phryer]

Hi Tony_Weiss:

I have a minor complaint about the new Profile Badges.  They add a huge amout of blank space to shorter posts because the badges are so large.  Any chance the size could be decreased a bit so that users don't have to do so much scrolling and browsing between pages of multi-page threads in the forum?

I also agree with Andmike and mikedov that Symantec employees should have their own reserved theme for their badges.  Newbies who aren't familiar with the significance of the colour-coding of user names might find this confusing.

Other than that, kudos to the designers.  Very nice feature.

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[noghere Keylogger Crusher]

There are some differences (height, width and registered date written in one or two alignments) using IE8 or FF8.0. Is it a my problem?