1. Registering
1. Membership Level
2. Your Account
1. View
2. Edit Account
3. Track
4. Contact
3. Your Profile
4. Other Scribas Members
5. Your Scribas Blog
6. Flashbacks
7. Memory Pages
8. The Scribas Forum
9. Scribas Groups
10. Demonstration Account
11. Using The Site
12. Search

1. Registering

Registering at Scribas couldn't be simpler. Simply go to our Register page and complete with your desired username and your e-mail address.

If your username is already in use with Scribas you will be offered the opportunity to pick an alternative. User names must be in excess of 3 characters and not be obscene or otherwise potentially offensive. The opening of such accounts will not be allowed.

Please be sure to read our Terms & Conditions and Copyright Statement which cover your use of the Scribas website. You will need to check a box to declare that you have read these Terms.

You will also be given the opportunity to check a box to opt out of receiving occasional E-mails from the Scribas site administrators. We would recommend you NOT to check this box as we will sometimes need to contact all our members concerning site functionality and/or security. We give you the choice to opt out because we respect your privacy.

After you have filled out the registration form, you will need to go and check your e-mail because a confirmation e-mail will arrive that contains your log-in information. You cannot, therefore, register at Scribas without a valid e-mail address.

After you have registered and confirmed, you will have the chance to change your password.

Membership Level

There are three levels of membership on Scribas:

• New Member
• Full Member
• Senior Member

You may also see the occasional site administrator listed as being Owner or Moderator.

Everyone who signs up to Scribas will become a New Member on confirmation of their registration. As a New Member, all new content that you create will be moderated. Once our site moderators have confirmed this content to be suitable for Scribas, you will quickly find your membership level moved up to Full Member, at which point all new content will be automatically published without moderation. This process usually takes a matter of days.

There are one or two other restrictions that will apply when you are a New Member:

• you cannot use Private Messages
• all new pages you create will be moderated before publication

We promote the most consistent contributors to Senior Member level. This decision is taken after considering various factors:

• Quantity of contributions to Scribas. Scribas Points may be taken into account.
• Quality of contributions. For example, does a member's pages often attract high rating?
• Overall contribution to the Scribas community. Is this a member who has initiated Scribas Groups and Memory Pages?

2. Your Account

When you have signed up and confirmed your membership by e-mail, your main account page can be found by clicking on the menu item "My Account" which you will find in the menu once you are logged in. Here is a brief overview of your main account page . Below is a brief description of what you can do on your account page. There are 3 links at the top of your account page:

View | Edit | Track

View

Member Info

The top panel on your account page contains your photo and some basic information such as your online status, membership level, Scribas Points, bookmarks and the date you joined Scribas. If you are viewing another member's account page, you will also see here a link to send them a private message, presuming you are have attained Full Member status.

Member Tools

This panel will only be visible when you are on your own account page, not when viewing other members' pages.

Depending on your membership level, there is a whole array of options available to you here, including:

• Your Account: Modify Newsletter Settings | Edit Account Settings | Add Member Picture
• Flashbacks: Create Video Page | Create Photo Page | Upload Audio | Upload Video
• Groups & Memory Pages: Create Scribas Group | Create Memory Page | Recent content
• Invite Friend: Send New | Invites Statistics
• Private Messages: Check Private Messages
• Bookmarks: Bookmarked Pages | Bookmarked Members

If you are still a New Member, some of these options will not be visible to you.

Memory Pages & Groups

Scribas Groups allow like-minded members to join together and create groups that reflect their common interest. Memory Pages offer you the chance to create a page dedicated to a town, school, TV show, sports team, military unit or pub/bar.

On a member's account page, the Groups section lists the groups that a member subscribes to. For more information on groups and Memory Pages, see our sections on Groups and Memory Pages of the User Guide.

Flashbacks

Flashbacks are video, photo and audio content that bring the memories flooding back: clips of old TV shows, memorable commercials, vintage photos, historical speeches or events. All your Flashbacks content that you have added to Scribas will be listed in this section of your account page.

Comments

Recent comments that you have made on the site. Comments can be added to forum threads, Flashback pages and blog entries.

Scribas Forum

Recent forum threads that you have started.

Scribas Blog

All members have the chance to keep an online blog, full of memories and recollections, with each entry tagged and categorized. Other members can rate your blog entries and add their own comments. Your recent blog entries will be listed here on your account page.

Your Popular Content

This list shows the top 5 pages you have created according to the pageviews they have received.

Edit Account

If you press Edit from your account page, you will be able to make changes to your account. Listed below are the settings you can change.

Account Information

This is where you'll find your basic account information: e-mail address and password. You can change both your e-mail address and your password here. Please ensure your e-mail address is correct as you will receive important account information there from time to time, including the newsletter if you have signed up for it.

It may also be a good idea to put Scribas on your spam whitelist to ensure our mails get through and don't get marked as spam. This is especially true if you use a web-based e-mail service such as AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail.

Picture

This allows you to upload a photo that will be visible on your member page. Maximum dimensions are 85x85 pixels and the maximum size is 20 KB. If you upload a photo that exceeds these limits the Scribas site will automatically resize the photo.

If you already have a photo uploaded on your Account page, you will be able to delete it here by checking the box, "Delete Picture".

Private Message Settings

You can send private messages to other Scribas members once you have attained Full Member status - and presuming the member you want to send a Private Message to has allowed this option. If you don't want to receive Private Messages, simply uncheck the box marked Allow Private Messages. You should uncheck Agressive Notification if you don't want to be told on every page that you have received a new Private Message. Finally, you will be able to choose how often (if ever) to receive e-mail notification of new Private Messages. If you receive spam or offensive messages through the Scribas Private Message system, please contact us immediately.

Comment Settings

Whatever you write in this box will be your comment signature and will appear at the end of all the forum posts you make on the Scribas site.

Whenever you change what is written here, all occurrences of your signature will automatically change across the site and all future forum posts will reflect your new signature.

Scribas Group and Memory Page Settings

Here, you can alter how often you get e-mails telling you of new content that has been posted in the Scribas Groups/Memory Pages you belong to. The third option will allow you to select on a group-by-group basis.

Contact Settings

There is a site-wide Contact feature on Scribas. It allows other members to contact you and it works by using your e-mail address, another reason to ensure your entered e-mail address is correct. Other members will not be able to view your e-mail address, which is kept private.

Admin e-mail settings

This is where you can opt out of receiving e-mails from Scribas owners and administrators. All our members are given the option to opt out because we care for your privacy and wouldn't want any members receiving unnecessary mails. However, we recommend you allow these mails, so we suggest leaving this box UNchecked. Please note that this will not permit other members to contact you (see "Contact Settings" for information on this), only Scribas admin personnel, who may need to contact you on very rare occasions concerning your account.

Time Zone Settings

This is where you can change the time zone that will determine all time zones shown on Scribas. This will ensure that times shown on comments and forum posts, for example, are accurate.

Track

This lists all the content that you have created at Scribas.

You can use this page to keep track of any changes to content you have posted on Scribas and other members will be able to click on this page in order to view all the content that you have added to the site.

Contact

This will only be visible to other members viewing your account page and if you have activated the contact form using Contact Settings on your account page. Another user can click on this in order to contact you using the Scribas site-wide contact tool.