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Customizing Your Proz Profile - A Love Story
Thread poster: Triston Goodwin
Triston Goodwin
Triston Goodwin  Identity Verified
United States
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Oct 20, 2014

Hi everyone!

I have been working on this for a while now and wanted to share. I was able to customize the About Me section of my profile here and made a quick guide on how to do the same. I just uploaded it to Youtube and invite you all to take a look.

Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5a4bHGE54A
 
Kaisa Azriouli
Kaisa Azriouli
Finland
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customizing your profile Oct 20, 2014

Great work for the profile design - provided that the dreamweaver is not the guarantee of the good looks. I will later on take my time to search whether the notepad really works with your good recipe.
 
Triston Goodwin
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Design Oct 21, 2014

I certainly could have used Dreamweaver, but that is the whole video and process that I used for my profile as it is right now. WYSIWYG
 
Triston Goodwin
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One more thought Oct 21, 2014

It occurred to me that I should explain that Dreamweaver or Notepad, in this case, is simply there to capture the HTML code and copy - paste it into your profile. We're not editing or changing anything in there (at least in the video).
 
Victor Westmann (X)
Victor Westmann (X)
Brazil
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English to Portuguese
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Will try it soon Oct 22, 2014

Hey Tristran,

thanks for sharing the tips and spending your time to record all the steps in a video. Will pimp my Proz Profile page soon!

Cheers.
 
Triston Goodwin
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United States
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Happy to help! Oct 22, 2014

Share a link to your profile in the comments once you have it done, I'd love to see it. Plus you get some free advertising out of it
 
Laura Hargreaves
Laura Hargreaves  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
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French
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Wow! Thanks! Oct 22, 2014

Wow Triston, thanks for sharing this! I didn't realise the profile page could handle HTML and this opens up some exciting possibilities!

I'll be sure to share a link once I've updated my profile to show off the finished result!

Kind Regards,

Laura Hargreaves
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Wow Triston, thanks for sharing this! I didn't realise the profile page could handle HTML and this opens up some exciting possibilities!

I'll be sure to share a link once I've updated my profile to show off the finished result!

Kind Regards,

Laura Hargreaves
LanguagesbyLaura.com
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Triston Goodwin
Triston Goodwin  Identity Verified
United States
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Can't wait to see it! Oct 23, 2014

There is an old guide available here on Proz, but it's out of date and it can be a little intimidating for those not familiar with HTML (even I was a little scared of it!). I really wanted to see how far I could push my account. I tried a few different things with mixed levels of success until one day, while working on an email campaign for a client, it just clicked - my profile needed to be coded like an email. I have been trying to find an easy way for other people to do the same ever since. W... See more
There is an old guide available here on Proz, but it's out of date and it can be a little intimidating for those not familiar with HTML (even I was a little scared of it!). I really wanted to see how far I could push my account. I tried a few different things with mixed levels of success until one day, while working on an email campaign for a client, it just clicked - my profile needed to be coded like an email. I have been trying to find an easy way for other people to do the same ever since. What I have up currently didn't require any special tools or skills. I built everything during the video and even uploaded it live. Eventually I'm going to replace it with something else, but I wanted to leave it up for a while so people can see that it's real and that it works.

I don't pretend to be a web development expert or anything, I just like finding creative ways to solve problems. ▲ Collapse
 
MarinaM
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Creative Oct 23, 2014

Thanks for sharing!
 


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