• Be sure to click [Save] at the bottom of the Edit Profile page to store your changes once you've made them.

• The new Profile fields are all elective - you are not required to make entries in any of them.  In many cases if you don't make an entry then the label for that particular won't appear in your Profile display, but others are left as placeholders to maintain a more pleasing and readable screen format when someone else views your profile. The most obvious example of this is the table of information regarding your boat - if you do not have a valid IP Model entered in the 'IP Model' field then that entire section of the enhanced profile display will not appear.

• Most of the fields accept free-form text while others use drop-downs for data entry in order to ensure proper formatting - this is critical for future enhancements.

• To view another user's Profile simply click on their user name and select "View Profile".  This method has not changed but the display screen that results has changed quite a bit to take advantage of the new fields.

• The map coordinates MUST be entered in DECIMAL mode - this is a limitation of the Google code used to display the maps.
  

To find the Latitude and Longitude for any given location just follow these three steps :

1) Find the location in your browser using Google Maps
2) Right-click on the specific location
3) Select "What's Here" in the drop-down that appears

The lat/lon pair will be displayed in decimal form in the search field just above the map.  Pay special attention to negative signs, otherwise you'll be mapping the wrong hemisphere ...

If you need help converting a known Latitude and Longitude pair from DMS (Degree/Minute/Second) to Decimal try this website : LINK

• The Enhanced User Profiles, like most areas of the IP Home Port website, are restricted to 'Members Only' access.  If non-members, whether human or bot, attempt to access them they will be re-directed to the login/registration page.

• The existing Terms Of Use for IP Home Port (LINK) apply to all of these new profile fields just like they always have for forum postings, auto-signatures, etc.  IP Home Port remains strictly non-commercial so the promotion of any product, service, or company via your Profile page is not allowed.

• Be sure to click [Save] at the bottom of the Edit Profile page to store your changes once you've made them.  Yes, I know that I already mentioned this but it bears repeating ...