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(Message started by: mylane on Nov 30^th, 2004, 9:19am)

Title: Newbie Starting Point
Post by mylane on Nov 30^th, 2004, 9:19am

First READ the forum rules! (http://www.1freeworld.net/cgi-bin/Yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1085033393) They may be boring, but it is important you abide by them.

If you don't know where to go? or you dont know where to start?

Post here and we will try our best to help you familiarize the board and get to know the friendly members.

Title: Re: Newbie Starting Point
Post by mylane on Nov 30^th, 2004, 9:25am

Creating a new thread
In order to start a discussion on a subject, you must create a thread, you can do this by clicking the start new thread button on the board index page.

Posting a reply
To reply to a post, you can click the post a reply button at the top or at the button of the table. If you want to insert a quote to which you are replying, you can click the quote button of the post.

Title: Re: Newbie Starting Point
Post by mylane on Nov 30^th, 2004, 9:30am

Profile Overview

Allows you to fill out a profile which tells people about you. You can have your name, age, instant messenger information, personal avatar, and more!

Editing Profile
To change your profile, click the "Profile" option in the forum menu.

Profile Options

- Password
Passwords have no restrictions, but it is recommended that you type at least 6 characters, using a combination of characters and numbers. Both password fields must be the same, simply as a check that you typed it correctly.
Example: xd8bill

- Name
This is your real or displayed name. This is what will be shown throughout the forum, in place of your username.
Example: John Doe

- Email Address
This must be valid to register, and things may be sent to this email address by the forum, such as topic notifications. It is also required if you ever wish to retreive a forgotton password.
Example: me@mydomain.com

- Gender
You get two choices. Male or Female ;) This is an optional field to provide other users with your gender.

- Birthdate
Your birthdate, in MMDDYYYY form. The birthday is only used to ensure that you are old enough to register on the forum. It also allows YaBB to display special items on your birthday.
Example: 07 31 1981

- Location
This is an optional field. You may type your current location or where you live in this field. It is displayed in your profile for other visitors to see.

- Time Offset
This is a + or - number to add or subtract to the current time showing on the forum. The forum's server may be in a different time zone than your computer.
Example: Forum time shows 13:28, but your time is 14:28. Time Offset would be +1

- Signature
This is a brief message or list of urls's that you may type in. . Signatures are shown at the bottom of each of your posts.

Title: Re: Newbie Starting Point
Post by mylane on Nov 30^th, 2004, 6:59pm

Instant Messaging

While e-mail is a good way to correspond privately with members, it has several drawbacks: You must open your e-mail application to write and send the message; the recipient must open his/her e-mail application; check his/her mail and your message will mixed in with all the other mail and it can take sometimes several minutes to an hour for mail to reach the recipient.

As an alternative to e-mail, This board offers a faster, more private method. Instant Messaging on the boards provides instantaneous delivery to the recipient's Private Mailbox. The mail is sent and received entirely through board, so neither you nor the recipient have to open another program or leave forum.

Instant Messaging also gives both the sender and recipient greater privacy: No one's real e-mail address is revealed. Instant Messages show only the handle and name of both parties.

If a recipient isn't online, Instant Messages wait in the member's IM box until the next time s/he logs in and manually reads and/or deletes them. Instant Messages is a self-contained, highly private e-mail system.

Title: Re: Newbie Starting Point
Post by Evilniki on Apr 8^th, 2006, 7:08am

Ahahaha

Title: Re: Newbie Starting Point
Post by Wicked_Witch on Apr 9^th, 2006, 3:43am

Dang, Niki...you followed the instructions to the letter really, eh? You're here at the Newbie Starting Point ;D

Title: Re: Newbie Starting Point
Post by jackie on May 31^st, 2006, 7:24pm

how you put your picture in your profile?

Title: Re: Newbie Starting Point
Post by jackie on Jun 1^st, 2006, 5:36am

ok i did it, thanks witchy for your help

Title: Re: Newbie Starting Point
Post by Wicked_Witch on Jun 6^th, 2006, 5:43pm

No problem. Glad to be of help, sis ;) :-*

Title: Re: Newbie Starting Point
Post by Saffire_65 on Sep 10^th, 2006, 5:17pm

Hi Ree and other Moderators! Even though I've been a member since 2003 I am very much a novice when it comes to navigate around the website. Things dont seem to work right for me. Its getting frustrated when i get logged out each time I clicked on a thread. I keep logging in only to find out I got log out again before i could get to post my entry. Please advise to whats wrong with my connection and if you guys are going to make this website user friendly too :) *cheers*

Title: Re: Newbie Starting Point
Post by ReeBop on Sep 12^th, 2006, 5:43am

Saffire, this problem may be involved with how you do cookies on your web browser. You need to have cookies enabled for this site to work on your system. Without the cookie, the forum will not know whether you are logged in or not. If you do have cookies running, the forum is unable to read them from your browser. You may try Firefox in that case and I do know that it will make the forum look a whole lot better.

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