The General Style File Tutorial

The General Style File Tutorial

Postby Nic » Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:42 pm

Welcome to Style File, brought to you by CHIC. Here you can upload and share your favorite HA designs, view the designs of other users, and adore and comment on them.

Navigating the Site
The Home Page & Important links:
When you come to the site you will land here. On the front page you will find the news, the week’s top rated styles, and the month’s top five styles. You will also find a link to the Style File Rules and the Style File Staff. On the top of this page and all pages are five links: upload, prefs, search, tags, and forum.
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For instructions on how to upload your styles, please see ROBOT’s tutorial on Saving and Uploading Styles

The Preference page lets you change your style privacy, your comment privacy, and your events settings.
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The Search page lets you choose between two different searches.
You can search by username, tag, or title:
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Or you can click random search, which will randomly select a style that has been uploaded:
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Clicking Tags will take you to the Style File tag cloud; clicking on a tag will pull up every style that has been tagged with that tag
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The Forums tag will take you to the Style File forums

The Popular Tab:
This were you can find the File’s popular styles; they can be sorted by Popular Styles, Recent Comments, and Recent Adores.

The Fresh Tab:
New additions to the file show up here in the fresh file. They are sorted from newest to oldest. Pretty simple and straight forward.

The Mine Tab:
This is where you will find all the styles you have uploaded. Here you can edit your styles. Your styles can be sorted by date and by popularity. You can choose to view only the styles in a certain category; you can also create new categories and view the styles you’ve adored and the users you stalk. Here you can also see how many people are stalking you; if you are a premium member you can see who is stalking you.
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When you edit a style you have several options. You can name the style, place it in a category, write a description about the style, tag it, change its privacy settings, and see who has adored the style.
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If need be you can also delete the style. Unless your style has been uploaded for under an hour or over three months you will be taken to the deletion request form.
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When someone has Adored or Commented on one of your styles you will get an alert at the top of the page. You will also be alerted when there is a reply to your comment. They are simple to remove, just click delete.
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The Archive Tab:
This is a record of all uploads for each month. By clicking the month you can reach the styles, organized by popularity.

Viewing, Adoring, and Commenting Styles
Viewing and Commenting Styles:
To view a style, simply click on the image. When you do you will be able to see who has commented on the style. You can also comment on styles here, and reply to comments by clicking the appropriate links.
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Adoring Styles:
To adore a style, simply click the link that say adore this style. Adorations are recorded as numbers next to hearts beneath the style.


Styles you have adored let you know that by stating that you adore it where the link to adore the style once was.

Style File Profile

Your profile will show your five top rated Styles and your five most recently adored styles.
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Re: The General Style File Tutorial

Postby Nic » Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:38 pm

Premium Perks

Unlimited Uploads
Premium members can upload more than five HAs a month.

Premium Layout with 8 Color Schemes
Premium layout

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The ability to see who is stalking you
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Beta Testing New Features
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