A brief tutorial on how to sign up and create a profile on Adoptimism.com.

1. How to Sign Up and Create Your Profile on Adoptimism.com

2. Click on the Register Here link.

3. Enter your email address twice. Enter a password twice. Type in the word you see in the image. Click View to read our terms of service, which will appear in a new window. When done, close that window to return to this page. Finally, check the Accept box and click Register.

4. You have created an account but it still needs to be activated. You’ll get an email within 3 minutes, usually less.

5. This is what the activation e-mail looks like. Click on the activation URL. This will take you back to the Adoptimism.com website.

6. Your account is now activated. You still have to login to your account.

7. To take advantage of our penny for six months promotion, enter PennyLaunch into the coupon code field. Then click on the Six Months purchase option. The coupon is only good for the Six Month membership.

8. Six months for just a penny. Don’t have a Paypal account? No problem. Just pay by credit card. No Paypal account required! Click here to pay with your PayPal account! Cool.

9. After entering in your payment details, click on the Continue button.

10. Awesome! You can now start filling out your profile. Click on Create Your Profile to get started.

11. You should have a special adoption only email address. Fill out the rest of the fields. The red asterisk means a field is required. Scroll down to finish filling out the form.

12. Fill out the rest of the form. Enter in your essay. Then click Submit.

13. Now it’s time to upload your profile picture.

14. Click Browse then look for and select the picture for your profile. Then click Upload.

15. Success. Click the link to add pictures to your gallery.

16. Click Browse to find a picture to upload. Then type in a caption and click submit. Your photo will upload. Repeat these steps for all the photos you wish to add to your profile.

17. As you upload pictures, they will appear here. If you want to delete any from your profile, select them, then click Delete.

18. To upload a video, click the Embed Video menu item.

20. Success! To view your profile, click the link.

21. To manage or edit your profile in the future, make sure you are logged in then click on the My Account drop down menu in the upper right hand corner.

22. Thank you and good luck. From the Adoptimism team!