Update your profile You can update your contact information and whether or not you want to receive important emails from Web Site Administrators. You can also view all the Web Sites you created and identify whether or not you are the Web Site Administrator. You can do the following: Update username, address information, and password. Get or check your free email. Change email preferences for all Web Sites in which you participate. These preferences indicate whether you want to receive email notifications at all and how you want to receive the email. Change email notifications per Web Site. View a list of your Web Sites. Change your starting Web site. denotes information that you must enter. Access your profile page From the top of any Community page, click the My Profile button. The My Profile page appears.   Get or check your free email If you don't yet have an email address on file, you can sign up for a free account. Click the Get a free email account link at the top of the My Profile page. Even if you already have an alternate email address in your profile, you can still sign up for a free email account. You must have an email address on file in your profile to be the Web Site Administrator. If you have already signed up for a free email address, you can check it right from your profile. To check your free email, click the Check your free email link at the top of the My Profile page.   View a list of all your Web Sites To view a list of Web Sites in which your participate or which you administer, look in the My Web Sites section of the My Profile page. To the right of the Web Site name, you can view your status within the Web Site (Administrator or participant). Note: To remove yourself as an Administrator, go to the Web Site Manager and click the Add/change administrators option in the Participants section. Scroll to the My Web Sites section of the My Profile page. To go to one of your Web Sites, click the [Web Site Name] to link to its home page.   Change your starting Web Site You can choose a particular Web Site's home page as the page that appears when you click the My Web Site button from a Community page. As you create more Web Sites, this comes in handy as a consistent starting place. You can change this at any time. Scroll to the My Web Sites section of the My Profile page. Scroll to the Web Site that you want as your starting site. Click the Make this my Starting Web Site option below and to the right of the Web Site name.   Change global email preferences Sometimes, the system sends out emails notifying you of a change in your user permissions or of Web Site changes. You can elect not to receive these notifications. If you do receive the notifications, you can change the format of them. Scroll to the Email Preferences section of the My Profile page. To turn off these system emails, click the Click to cancel email option next to the statement "I currently receive important emails from..." To set the format for your email notifications, click the Change to plain text format option. The default format of email notification updates is HTML format. This lets you see graphics, colors, and tables just like a normal web page. Most email clients that are packaged with a 4.0 version web browser or above support HTML-formatted emails.   Change email preferences for each Web Site Each time you participate in a Web Site you automatically receive an email notification report highlighting new and modified postings, stories, pictures, and events in those Web Sites. By default the report includes information on all your Web Sites and you receive it every day. You can change these preferences on the My Profile page. You can set different email notification preferences for each Web Site in your Web Site list. For example, you can request that for Web Site A you only receive notifications every week, but for Web Site B, you receive the updates every day. You can also specify what kind of updates you want for each Web Site. On any day that you have two email updates scheduled (such as a daily email for Web Site B and the weekly update for Web Site A), you receive a combined email with both sets of information included. Scroll to the My Web Sites section of the My Profile page. To change email notification preferences, click the Update Options link below each Web Site. (If you previously selected not to receive updates, this option changes to Get Updates.) The Email Update Preferences page appears. See Update email notification preferences. To remove a Web Site from the email report, click the No Update option under the Web Site name. Note: You can add the Web Site again after you have removed it by clicking the link to Get Updates option.