Tips on using your Core Membership!!

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Decided to do this since someone asked how to make her page like mine :) Also been wanting to do something like this : P It seems there aren't really any tutorials for this so I hope it helps!

So first thing is:

How to get Core



By going up to the shop button in the top left of your page and hover over it, there will be a buy core membership button. If you click on it, (since deviantart is currently having the discount journal up, you will be redirected to the journal with the offers they have (until Jan. 4th). By clicking on one of the choices you have ($15 for 3 months, $50 for one year, ect) you have the choice to either pay with a credit card, paypal, or points. By clicking credit card you have a choice of Visa, Master Card, American Express and Discover and will have to type in your info on the credit card and your address, ect. By clicking Paypal you will be able to pay for it but will take a grand total of 5 to 15 days for it to process. By clicking points, all you have to do if give the amount of points it requires and boom! You've got your core membership.
You also have the choice to :heart:give:heart: a core membership to another deviant. If you :heart:give:heart: a core membership, you have different choices of buying core (instead there will be a $5 for ONE month). You will also have a choice to show who gave it to you or keep it completely anonymous.
Once you have a core membership to extend it further you simply do the same process.

How to add new widgets



By having Core you have new widgets you can use!!
Some of the new widgets are:
- Custom
- Polls
- Visitors
- Forum
- Collection
- Twitter
- Delicious Bookmarks
- Shoutbox
- Gallery Folder

Custom is where you can put any kind of art or text in. You can feature mostly anything you wish (even music videos!). By clicking the box with the pencil in it you can now add a title and your custom text, art, icons, ect. If you wish to remove a custom box from your page, go down to where you put your custom box at and click the pencil tool again and you will have the choice to edit it or remove it.
Polls is where you can ask any viewers or members any question you desire! By clicking on the poll widget you will have 1 title for your poll and 10 responding choices people can choose. Since deviantart updated the polls section, you now don't have to vote on your own poll to see see the votes! To make a new poll you simply click the + button at the top of the widget. To edit the poll you click on the pencil tool. If you click on the pencil tool you have the choice to edit the poll, delete the poll or which poll you which to feature. By clicking the pencil tool you also have the choice to remove the poll.
Visitors is a widget where you can display who visited your page. By clicking on the vsistor widget, you can now display who visits your page and what time and date they visited. By clicking on the pencil tool you can now edit how you want to display your visitors either as avatars, names or both! YOu can also remove the widget by clicking the pencil tool and removing the widget. Only five people can be displayed who visited your page so keep an eye out!
Forums is where you can start a thread of anything you want. To make a new thread, you click at the bottm of the widget where it says start a new thread. You then have a choice of what the topic is and the content that you write within it. By clicking the pencil tool you have the choice of how many threads you wish to display. You can also remove the widget using the pencil tool.
Collections are any kind of favorites you wish to display from a folder in your favorites section. By clicking the pencil tool you have the choice to feature which collection you want, how you wish to display them (small thumbnails, huge thumbnails or sitback slide show). You can only edit the small thumbnails section by displaying how many you wish to display (which goes by 2's) and how you want them displayed (newest or random). You can remove the widget by using the pencil tool.
Twitter are where you can display the recent tweets that you have made on twitter. The only way you can display these tweets is if you make a new account or sign in. You can remove or edit it by clicking the pencil tool.
Delicious Bookmarks are where you can tag, save, manage or share web pages (yes, I got that from the description xD). By clicking the pencil tool you have the choice to enter your delicious username, your tag, and an introduction. You also have the choice of how many bookmarks you wish to display. Like the other widgets, you can remove this by clicking the pencil tool and clicking remove.
Shoutbox (the fun one!) is where deviants can shout out whatever they want! By clicking the pencil tool, you can edit how many shouts you wish to display. The only way you can shout though is if you logged in, so log in and shout til your hearts content! Of course, you can also remove this widget by clicking the pencil tool and clicking the remove button.
Gallery Folders is where you can display any kind of folder in you gallery. By clicking the pencil tool you can edit which folder you would like to present and how you wish to present them (small thumbnails, huge thumbnails or a sitback slide show). Small thumbnails can be edited as to how many you wish to display and how you want to display them (newest or ranmdom).

Going to these widgets are in the upper right corner of your page where it says edit page, where you can add or remove any wdiget you want (with core ALL widgets are available to use!).
You can also control where you put your new widgets at by going to the edit page again where you can click on the widgets you have installed and move them where ever you wish. The places where you put them though are limited. Such as, you can only put art related things in the Art Zone (this includes deviations, critiques and favorites).
Widgets that you can display only in the Art Zone are:
- Deviations
- Favorites
- Critiques
- Featured Deviations
- Collections
- Gallery Folder
Widgets you can display only in the Personal Zone are:
- Journals
- Polls
- Deviant ID
- Donation Pool
- Twitter
- Delicious Bookmarks
- Activity
- Journal History
- Critiques
Widgets that you can only place in the Misc. Zone are:
- Custom
- Polls
- Visistors
- Watchers
- Shoutbox
- Twitter
- Delicious Bookmarks
- Journal History
- Wishlist
- Friends
- Groups
Widgets that can be placed in ALL zones are:
- Commissions
- Anything to do with Prints
The only thing that can NOT be moved are the comments.

New Features


With core, you can also edit the widgets you already had displayed such as watchers, deviations, favorites, groups ect ect. To edit these things you simply go to the pencil tool and click edit.
The widgets with new features (that you didn't need core to get) are:
- Watchers
- Newest Deviations
- Favorites
- Groups
- Journals
- Featured Deviations
- Creating Gallery Folders
Watchers can now be edited by clicking the pencil tool and clicking edit. You now have the choice of how many watchers you wish to display (highest is 40 lowest is 5) and what order you wish to present them (newest or oldest).
Newest Deviations can now be edited by using the pencil tool (I feel like I'm saying that a lot xD). You can edit how many small thumbnails you wish to display and how you wish to display them (as huge thumbnails or sitback slideshow). Only the small thumbnails can display a certain number of devitaions.
Favorites can be edited by using the pencil tool. You can edit how you wish to present them (small thumbnail, huge thumbnail or sitback slide show), how many small thumbnails you wish to present and how you want to present them (newest or random). That only works with the small thumbnails though.
Groups now can be edited as how many groups you want to display and how you want to display them (as newest membership, oldest membership, or random).
Journals can now be used with Journal Skins!! Journal Skins are (like this one) designs that can be used to display a theme or mood of the journal you write. You can view journal skins by going to Deviantart Related > Deviantart Skins and Scripts or by typing in Journal Skins. The same goes with custom skins.
To install a journal skin, you go to the journal skin you would like to use and click Install and it will redirect you to the journal widget with the journal skin you installed. Any journal skin you install will be listed under Sta.sh and Installed. But make sure its okay to use with the designer first!
The same goes with custom box skins! You can view them by going to the same place or by typing in Custom Box Skin. Read the instructions of how to use the skins the designer placed in the description and of course, make sure its okay with the designer first!
Featured Deviations is now unlimited to how many you may display! Before you could only display one while now you can display as many as you would like! And now with core, you can also edit how you want to display it as either normal view or full view.
Gallery Folders can now have sub folders. By having core you can create a sub folder within another folder. You can do this by going to your gallery and clicking on any specific folder and go down to where is says New Folder and make a sub folder.

Other New Features



With core membership, you can view all deviations unlimited and in a full view! You can now also go to the Core Forums and chat within the forum with other core members :) More information on how to use the membership is here >> help.deviantart.com/ .

I hope this helps in some way and if you have any questions please feel free to ask!!

Hope you have a good day everyone! :)

-Yuki

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