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 The first thing you notice when you sign up for BOLT is the massive variety of profile syles. Almost everyone has their own personalized Profile and you feel obliged to do the same. The results of adding a few lines of code to your tagline can be quick, but not really effective. BOLT only allows so many characters to be entered in your tagline and HTML is very heavy on characters. It would be simpler to add only one line of code and access the control of an external stylesheet situated on another server. This way nothing is missed from your design. Below are a few examples of "quick" code you can use to add graphics and sound to your profiles. Remember you must still have a server you can access to store your image or sound files. To add a background sound track:-

<embed src="YOUR URL LINK" autostart="true" loop="true" volume="15" hidden="true">

The URL will be where you have your mp3, wmv or wav sound file. To hide the player interface set hidden value to "true" and autostart to "true". If you want to allow visitors to stop and start your sound, set the hidden value and autostart values to "false". If you do not want your sound to play continouously set the loop value to "false". Importantly, set volume value between "10 and 50" just for comfort if your sound autoplays. You can set it up to a maximum value of 128, but unless you want visitors to leave quickly, remember they may not share your taste in music.

In addition to your Tag Line you can use your facts and figures column where you list your About Me, music, books etc. to add graphics. These may be pictures, banners, buttons or simple section dividers, Whatever you want to show, use this code.

<img src="YOUR PICTURE URL LINK">

Remember that the graphic will appear exactly where you have placed the code. If it is placed halfway through a block of text the graphic will appear with lines of text above and below it.

I will give you a useful hint here.    If you add a graphic below your Tagline, keep the size below 200 pixels wide..  If not the image will expand  across towards the right hand side of the screen and will overlap the column next to it. often with strange results.

A quick way of changing your profile background can be achieved by creating a blank question in your tag book and putting the code in there. The important thing to remember here, is that should the question containing your code move off the first page, it will no longer work. Your background will only be visible on your log in page. To have total control over your profile you really need to master stylesheets. See the section on CSS

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