CUSTOMIZE YOUR PAGE: To make your page pretty, start with the Customize options at the top of your screen. They enable you to change your Background color, background image, and the color of the other areas listed i.e. user box, profile box etc. As for the background image, when you click that there are standard options provided. Or you can use you own. A lot of MDS members use a personal photo as the background image. Others use an impage from photobucket. You can change your colors and background image whenever you want.

GIFTS: The toys and icons on the top of MDS pages are gifts and awards. As for the gifts, you purchase these gifts using doggie dollars. You can purchase them for yourself, and you can send them to friends. The piggy bank on the upper right of your page, next to the sun, shows how many doggie dollars you have in your bank. You are given 10 when you join, and then you get one each day you sign on (after 24 hours have passed) - so if you sign on at 10 one morning you don't get the next one until after 10 the next morning. When you click the piggy bank, it shows all the gifts that are available and how many doggie dollars each costs. Most gifts  are at least $10 doggie dollars, but every now and then there is a special limited edition that is only $5. You can also earn doggie dollars - when you click the piggy bank it shows how. The ability to purchase doggies dollars with real dollars was just added.

AWARDS: The awards are earned - i.e.  when there is a photo contest and you enter. There will be an announcement when the next one is taking place. The blue bone you get when you have more than 50 pals.

PAL REQUESTS: In the upper right corner of your page, you will see a photo of two dog faces and under it the word pals. In the parentheses will be the number of people who have sent you a pal request, if any. Click on pals and it will show you the outstanding requests. Click accept for each one you want to accept.

When you want to send a pal request, on the page of the pal you want, on the left hand side under the word Home is Pal Request. Click on that. Then you will have to copy a validation code and click again. If you entered the code correctly, there will be a message saying your request has been sent or something like that. If you didn't enter it correctly, you will get that as a message and can repeat the process beginning with clicking pal request.

SPECIAL BARKS: To learn how to send the special barks you see everyone using, there is a blog here in the Forum section How to post pictures etc.

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