Help Page 2
For newbies to forums
Welcome to Steve Saunders Goldwing Forums. This is the help page for absolute newbies to our forums. This page explains how to post new topics (threads) and how to reply to other forum members posts and some of the ways to use and change settings in your forum account.
When you browse to the forums at www.goldwingfacts.com/forums
you will see the main page below. If you are not already a forum member, you
will have to register by clicking the Register link which is below the LOGIN
link, and go to the registration page. If you have already registered, you will
click the LOGIN link, shown circled in red here...
...then the login page will open and you will see the login dialog box shown below. Enter your forum name Username and Password and click the Login button...
...which will bring you to the main forums index page as shown below. This is the page with the list of all the available forums (as of August 17th 2008). Click on the forum you would like to post in. If you are new to the forum and want to introduce yourself, you might like to post a message in the New Members Introduction Forum, so click on that...
...and the New Members Introduction page will open, as shown below. Now you want to make a new topic with your introduction post. Click the New Topic button at the top right of the topics list, I've circled it in red below...
...and the new topic text editor will open, as shown below. Enter a title for your post in the Subject line and then type your message. When you are finished, click the Send button at the bottom right of the text editor and you are done.
If you want to reply to another members post instead of making a new topic, that's even easier. Assume that you are already reading a topic in the Technical Forum and you want to reply with a question or have something you would like to add to the thread, just click the Reply button beside any of the posts, example below;
This will take you to the text editor as shown two pictures above and you
can type and send your message as explained already. Congratulations, you are
now a posting member of
www.goldwingfacts.com
Here is a closer look at the menu, which as well as the LOGIN link has other options available to you. The purpose of the Logout link is fairly obvious. There are other options available as you can see, such as;
Calendar for adding events.
Members list.
Photo Gallery for all members with a minimum of
10mbs storage for each forum member.
HELP! you already know as that's how you got to
this page.
Home takes you to the front page of the forum.
Bikers Workshop contains many useful Goldwing
maintenance tutorials, with pictures and some video clips.
Goldwing History tells the story of Goldwing
development.
Buyers Guide may help those buying their first
Goldwing.
Goldwing Tips contains some useful extra info.
Owners Reports. Why not send in your own, we would
be delighted to have it.
Members Mugshots. Offsite link to our forum members
faces.
Members Map. This is our members location Frappr
map and you can add your own location here.
Links. Our links page to other Goldwing and general
motorcycle resources.
Games. Free swf games that you can play in the
forum.
We occasionally add or change the layout of items in the menu.
The PM's link take you to your own private
messages area, which you can use to send and receive PM's to other forum
members.
The Search box allows you to search the forum for topics you are interested in.
If you tick the "By member name" you can search for
a forum member.
The My Account link is where you can make changes to your forum Profile information. You can edit your e-mail address and other things here;
The Preferences tab lets you set the time format and whether you want to receive PM's from other members and/or e-mails from the forums Admin;
You can also select a Board Theme/Skin if you don't
like the default one;
The Watched Forums tabs takes you to the page shown below. You can select the forums you want to watch and how often you want to be e-mailed about this. If you do NOT want e-mail notifications, make sure all the forums are UN-TICKED;
Watched Topics lets you keep a handy list of the forum topics you want to find quickly;
Avatar lets you choose one of our stock pictures to add beside your profile, or you can upload one of your own. The picture will be visible under your forum name;
