Summary

We have now expanded our social networking site to allow users to sign up and customize their experience on the site. This included custom user profiles complete with links to their profiles on other social networking sites and details of their pet dinosaurs. We used globally recognized avatars to automatically pull in our user's Avatar if they have one. A custom home page was set for our logged in users, and we enabled the viewing of recent contributions from other members.

We also looked through features to make it possible for us, as administrators, to manage our users, including creating and editing user profiles, deleting and canceling user accounts, updating the e-mails sent to our users on key events (registration, forgotten password, and so on), as well as the management of user roles and permissions.

With these features in place, and our knowledge of Drupal expanding, we can now look at enabling user interaction on our site, making it a truly social experience!