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Sosauce is a seriously powerful site, with many tools and community features designed to help you explore your outer world, and inner travel geek.   So to tie all those capabilities together, we needed a seriously powerful home interface. We'd like to introduce you to that interface now.    Welcome to your new Home!   The main component of your Home is your Updates.     This is the default page you reach when you login to your account, and it can be reached anytime by hitting the Home link or the Sosauce logo at the top Header.     The other main part of your Home is your Profile Gallery, on which you display all the things you create and add to Sosauce for visitors.     In addition, within the Home you have 3 mini-apps: Footprint, Events calendar, and Messages.   Home Updates   Your Updates has some useful filters:      Before you invite or make some friends on the site, we'll point you to all our interesting and new community content, under the "Community Updates" tab.      When you Follow (receive content updates without being friends) someone, their latest content will also show up here.   As you gain friends, or people whose content you find compelling, you'll see their updates fill in under Friends Updates.     Local Updates are reviews fed into your updates based on what you pick as your Current Location.  To pick a location, look for a box like this in the right panel on the Updates page.      You may need to scroll down to see it.   The Forum Q&A tab gives you a digest from the Q&A forum in the Guide app.    You might notice all the notifications on the right side of the page. These underscore useful information, such as Sosauce store, news, contests, popular destinations, and this guide. If you have a basic account, the Sosauce Store panel tells you how much storage you have left and gives you a link to upgrade.  It also features the latest from the sotre.  Expand Your Circle gives you quick links to friend list, followers, and invite.      Next, let's take a look at the links below the page heading:     Profile Gallery directs you to the aforementioned display of your profile information as well as your content. Invite allows you to others, and Add Content gives you shortcuts to creating content.   When you hit Add Content, you'll see the following window:     From here, you have all the shortcuts you need to add new things on Sosauce.   Profile Gallery   Your profile gallery is the public place on Sosauce in which you can display everything you add or create on the site, in an attractive and totally customizable manner.    The Profile Gallery is composed of a number of "stickies," which are widgets that you can freely arrange. These represent major features on the site (such as Trip, Guide, Photo, or Journal), and a few are simply self contained fun features (such as Poll).     One of the great things about Sosauce is that you really only need to display the things that interest you - adding and removing stickies from your profile is as easy as opening and closing them using the Sticky Gallery on the bottom of the page. For instance, if I love Sosauce for the Trip feature alone, I can close all the stickies on my Gallery except for, say, my Trip sticky and my Profile sticky.    And like we said, everything is totally customizable. Arranging the stickies on your page is as easy as clicking and dragging, and you can even change the size and background of the stickies using the customization options accessed through the buttons at the top right of each sticky:       Footprints     Another feature at your Home is Footprints.  This feature gives you the ability to pin everywhere you've been on a map.  You can search for places, or you can free pin by double clicking on the map.  There are also sorting options to display the places.  You can create trips from the places you pin here.  Once the pins are associated with trips, they will turn blue.  From these blue pins, you also have shortcuts to various trips you create.       Messages     One last feature that deserves a mention is Messages.  In addition to commenting, you can message friends on the site, andcheck and reply messages.  Each message thread can be replied to and has a message history.     Note :  Whenever you feel like editing profile and account information, click on the Edit Profile link in the Header.  Aside from editing profile information, you can also add a customized URL and screen name, upgrade to premium account , or deactivate your account.       So that's your Home in a nutshell! If you have any further questions, check out our Help section at the top or bottom of any Sosauce page.   If you need to reach us, please use the Send Feedback link at the bottom of the page.     Enjoy!