Setting up your profile

Email from Membership Services

You will have received an email from CAFTCAD Membership Services advising you that an account has been created. This email contains your Username and Password
If you do not know what your username is, our convention is FirstnameLastname, i.e. if your name is John Doe, your username is JohnDoe

Logging in to the CAFTCAD Site

Start by logging in to the CAFTCAD Website. You can follow this link: http://www.caftcad.com/members-area

Accessing Edit Profile

You can access your profile from the Members Area menu. First we are going to Edit Profile

Setting up the basic profile

Enter information into your profile. Tool tips will appear explaining what each field is for.

Note that you can enlarge some of the text boxes by dragging on the bottom right corner

Restrictions on Links

Please be aware that any Links should not include the "http://" part - enter in only the part after "http://"

i.e. to link to http://www.caftcad.com, enter in "www.caftcad.com"

Saving your profile

Once you have completed entering in all of your information, click the "Save" button

If there is a problem with the information that you entered, a red box will appear around the item that needs to be corrected

Profile Saved

If everything went well, you will see a message saying "Profile Saved"

Next we are going to add in a profile picture - select Profile / Change profile picture to upload a profile photograph

Click the "Choose File" Button to browser your computer for a photograph

After you have selected the image, click the upload button

After uploading, your new profile picture will be displayed

You can also change your display name, email address for communication, and password in the edit details section

If you want to change your password, enter in the new password im both the Password and Verify Password fields, then click "Save"