Operational Buttons  -   Email Notification  -   Blog Categories  -   Display Only Current Messages This guide is intended as an orientation guide for Blog users. It does not provide infomation on managing a Blog. Operational Buttons These buttons, located at the top of your Blog, allow you to View, Modify, Delete, Create, and Search for specific messages. Your Blog manager may disable/hide one or more of these buttons. Below is a description of each button: This button is used you to view all messages on your Blog. Each message will have a Subject Title and beneath the subject title the text of the message. This button is used to create a message. A form is presented to enter your message and specify which section/category it should be posted into. You'll also create a password to associate with your message, which you can later use to Modify or Delete your message. Pressing this button provides users with an easy interface (the HTML Formatting Toolbar) for inserting graphics, hyperlinks, smilies, and HTML code into their message. Users can easily add color, bold, italics, font type/size, etc. to their message using the HTML Formatting Toolbar. For a detailed description of the HTML Formatting Toolboar Click Here. These two buttons allows you to modify or delete messages you've created earlier. Pressing either button causes the system to prompt you for the message id of the message you want to modify or delete. The message id of each message is displayed at the bottom of each message. Your also need to supply the password you used to create the message. This password ensures only you can modify or delete your message. This button is used to search for specific messages on your Blog. Pressing this button displays a form allowing you to specify search criteria used to qualify messages displayed. This button is also used to view and search your Blog's Archived messages. This button returns you to your board's home page, if the Blog Owner has specified a home page, otherwise it returns you to the home page for Blogs.cc. This button displays the Frequently Asked Questions page and links to the User's Guide(this page) and the Manager's Guide. Buttons Associated with Threaded Blogs Only Used to display a smaller Message List Window Used to display a larger Message List Window. Used to show all message threads expanded. Used to collapse all message threads, displaying only the Blog's category/section folders. Used to view any archived messages associated with your Blog Used to view messages in a "Non-Threaded" format. Used to view messages in a "Non-Framed" format. Used to toggle from SideBySide to a Top-Bottom display format or ViceVersa. Email Notification    Top For Non-Threaded Blog -- Located just beneath the operational buttons, at the top of your board or For Threaded Blogs -- Located at the bottom of the Message List Window you'll see a link labeled: "To be notified whenever a message is posted to this Blog Click Here" Clicking this link displays the Blog's email notification form, allowing you to add your email address to the Blog's email notification list. The email notification form allows you to request email notification if any new messages are added to the Blog or alternatively, only if new messages are posted to a specific section/category of the Blog. Email notification is sent once each night if new messages are detected meeting your specification criteria. Blog Categories    Top Blogs Using Non-Threaded Format At the top of your Blog, you'll see a list of the sections/categories defined for your Blog. Clicking on any category name takes you to that part of your Blog containing messages for that section/category. Blogs Using Threaded Format Your Blog can be divided into a maximum of 12 different sections/categories. Each Section/Category is represented by a Green Folder icon. Each of these 12 folders can contain an unlimited number of topics/threads/messages. Double-Clicking on a folder opens up the folder to display all topics/threads contained within that folder. Realize, each topic/thread/folder can itself contain an unlimited number of new topics/threads/folders. This interface imitates the MicroSoft Explorer Window interface, where one folder can contain many other folders. Display Only Current Messages    Top This drop-down menu, located near the top of your Blog, allows you to request messages for a specific date range. You can request to view messages for one of the following date ranges: Today, Yesterday, 2 Days Ago, Last Week, Last 2 Weeks, Last Month, or All Messages. Your setting remains in effect through subsequent sessions until you specify a different view.