Chapter 19. Building Profiles
While working on the graphic artist community site I discussed in Chapter 1, one of the challenges was to come up with a user profile system that was more meaningful than a simple page of facts about a site member.
What I did was nothing revolutionary, or even new, but it serves as a good example of how the type of application being created can affect the types of information members need about other users.
A user profile is often comprised of a few vital statistics about a person—his name, Web site URL, instant messenger information, and maybe a list of hobbies or a short blurb about why he joined the site. This information isn’t always particularly helpful to the other site members, because it isn’t designed to contribute ...
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