Allen Talk Neighborhood Forums: User Guide: "My Home" Page

Guide to My Home

Customize the look of the site, change your password, manage your favorites, etc.

Message Box.
Send and View your Private Messages.

Click "Send a PM" to send a PM. To save a copy of your PM check the "I want to keep a copy of my message" button.

Click "Received Private Messages" to view PMs that have been sent to you.

Click "Sent Private Messages" to view PMs that you have saved a copy of.

For more information see the Guide to Private Messages.

Friends Online.
This box will show the members you have added to your address book if they are online and visible. If none are available you will not be able to access this area.

Address Book
Click "From Address Book" to review your Address Book, Remove People from your Address Book, or Send Private Messages to people in your Address Book.

Adding People to your Address Book.
Click on a username (anywhere) to view their profile. Then click "Add to Address Book", or when sending a PM to a user check the "Add to Address Book" box.

Post Reminders.
At the bottom of each post you'll see a tiny "Remind Me!" icon. If you click this icon a reminder will be stored for you to make a reply to this post later. To return to the post click the link in the Post Reminders section. Once you have posted a reply the reminder will automatically disappear. If you change your mind you can check the reminder and click "Delete" to remove them.

Favorite Threads.
You can choose to mark threads as favorites. That way you can easily re-visit the thread from a link in your "My Home" page. When reading a thread, scroll to the bottom of the screen and click on "Favorite!" It will be added. If you wish to remove a favorite check them and click "Delete". You can also receive email replies to all of your favorite threads. This feature is found in the �Main Configuration� section.

Main Configuration.
Here is where you can customize the look of the site, change your password, update your profile, set email notifications, etc.

Edit Personal Information, email, password, style sheet, etc. Turn on or off your publicly displayed email address.

Note: You cannot change your display name.

Note: As explained in the Forum Rules do not enter a business name as a display name or enter a business web site address.

Edit Display Preferences, number of shown threads, languages, colors, etc.
Use this section to customize how your posts are displayed.

Subscribe / Unsubscribe from receiving posts by email, message notifications, etc.
Use this section to select preferences for all email notifications and subscriptions to forums via email.

Maintenance.
Here is where you manage cookies, mark posts as read, and address book/ignore list.

Expire Cookies.
Deleting your board�s (forum) cookies might be useful if you suspect that they are damaged and the board is malfunctioning. Expiring these cookies will do NO harm at all but it will log you out of the board. Once you login and start using the board again new cookies will be set automatically.

Mark Posts as Read all the posts that you are finished reading.

Address Book / Ignore List will allow you to block the body of text from a specific user. Add a member to your address book and then select ignore this user.

Thanks to the staff of ThreadsDev that provided most of this �how to� information. http://www.threadsdev.com

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Edited by Webmaster (11/22/04 11:57 AM)

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