There's really not much to your Tumblr profile but a userpic. You can customize a bunch of things about how it displays or put an image as the wallpaper but I find that distracting myself.
Important tip #1: although "dashboard" sounds like the control panel, since it refers to the thing in the car where you see how everything is working, the Tumblr dashboard is your viewing page, rather like the lj friends page. That messed me up for a while.
Important tip #2: if you want to change stuff about how Tumblr looks, you can't do that from your actual page (the one with your username in it). You have to do that from settings button at the top of the Dashboard.
Finding people is a total crap shoot. The "tags" on Tumblr may help to some extent but the tags are curated by people from Tumblr, especially the popular ones, so stuff gets left out. The search function does not work well at all. Your best bet is to either know the person's user name or find someone who is sharing stuff you enjoy and track back to where they're getting it from and follow those people.
Tumblr has no idea what it wants to be when it grows up, IMNSHO.
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Date: 2012-12-19 04:33 am (UTC)Important tip #1: although "dashboard" sounds like the control panel, since it refers to the thing in the car where you see how everything is working, the Tumblr dashboard is your viewing page, rather like the lj friends page. That messed me up for a while.
Important tip #2: if you want to change stuff about how Tumblr looks, you can't do that from your actual page (the one with your username in it). You have to do that from settings button at the top of the Dashboard.
Finding people is a total crap shoot. The "tags" on Tumblr may help to some extent but the tags are curated by people from Tumblr, especially the popular ones, so stuff gets left out. The search function does not work well at all. Your best bet is to either know the person's user name or find someone who is sharing stuff you enjoy and track back to where they're getting it from and follow those people.
Tumblr has no idea what it wants to be when it grows up, IMNSHO.