Signing up and confirmation emails

Author: Fred

Here's some things you may take into consideration when updating your
profile:

Sometimes you may have a login, but not see yourself in the profiles. We, meaning Sarah, Tracy or me, need to create an empty profile first and then link you to that profile. So if you don't see yourself in the profiles, but would like to put something there anyway, we'll get to adding profiles and you'll automatically get an email telling you that you can now update your profile.

Other people may have signed up, but never gotten a confirmation email. This could be for several reasons:

Your ISP or mailwebsite thinks the email coming from the TW3 website is spam. Damn them! It is NOT! :) Well one reasonably good way to overcome this is to add 'tw3@dutchie.org' to your address book *if you have webmail.

If you don't use webmail but just Outlook or something locally on your PC, adding the address to your local addresslist won't help you much. If your mailserver eats up the emails before they ever get to Outlook, adding anything in outlook won't help ya any. You're as they call it shit out of luck :) Well unless you want to give your ISP a really hard time, ask them why the heck you're not getting emails from tw3@dutchie.org and nag them until they fix it that is. I cannot decide for you if you find the TW3 emails quite *that* important (well ok, I can, and they are :)

Maybe you have once upon a time gotten a confirmation email when I was eagerly signing up people without asking their permission. Maybe you thought 'WTF!?!?!' and deleted it on the spot.

So now you tell me 'you never got it' eh? ;-) Well don't worry, you *can *have the site send you a new confirmation email (http://www.dutchie.org/Tracy/sendconfirm.php just type in your email there and let it try to send you another confirmation email)

Okay, here's where it starts to get tricky. So you want to update your profile... navigate to the members section, find your name. It's not there? See above. It is there? *make sure you're logged in first* (you can see this in the far top right of any page; if you're logged in it will show you a link 'Log Out' and if you're not yet logged in, it will show you a link 'Log in / Sign up'.

So if you're logged in, and your profile exists, and your profile is linked to your username, you SHOULD then see a few small icons in the top right of your profile: 'Contact / Edit / Friend'. Clicking on the last link is essential, you MUST be your own friend or it won't work. Ok... that was a joke. No, really. You do not need to be your own friend... Either way, the 'Edit' icon is what you want to click on. You will now get a complicated form and the questions on there are very terse and sometimes even incomprehensible. I will fix that later, I kinda suck at layouting so give me some time to learn :)

Most of the questions are easy though, with some exceptions, they are:

Picture. If you have a cool picture of yourself and you want to show it to everybody, but it's not on the webserver yet, well click on 'Add Picture'. You will now get yet another form. 'Public' or not does not do anything yet so be mindfull about uploading nude pictures of yourself okay? Everybody can see what you upload for right now. Later on I can make it such that only people you marked 'friends' can see it, or only members, or whatever, but it's not there yet. *Important: *You should enter a description. If you leave the description empty, you will NOT see the picture in your picklist (even though it IS there :) So after you have uploaded a picture, you can go into editting your profile again and the description of the picture you just uploaded should be in the picklist. Enjoy!

HomePage. The homepages uses the 'Link Factory'; this is a big table of categorized URL's/hyperlinks. You can see all of the Link Factory links on http://www.dutchie.org/Tracy/links.php. If your homepage isn't in the Link Factory yet, well go ahead and add it. Don't be shy now, just click on 'Add One' from your profile edit page. Now.... when you click on it from the profile edit page, you should see the 'HomePages' category selected. If not, make sure to select it. The picklist will only list links from the HomePages category. *Important: *Enter a description here too or you won't see your link in the HomePages picklist.

Favorite Witchy Website: the same applies as to the HomePage, except you need to make sure to add links in the 'Favorite Witchy Websites' category for this one to show up in your Favorite Witchy Websites picklist.

Some people have added links to the TW3 Menu category LOL. This means your link shows up in the top menu. Very funny, and no doubt an honest mistake :) If you're logged in and go to the links section, you will see edit icons behind the links. Feel free to correct yourself if you made an error :)