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About This Website-- AllTrikes.com: Help, Logging In, How To's, Details, etc.

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Categories: Web Site Development / Help

 

For Help Logging In, contact  Admin @  AllTrikes.com                      Admin Email   

 

For Really Basic Site Info, click HERE

SEARCH:  Search on this site is very powerful and organized.  Find the Search box near the upper right of each page.  click on it, enter your search term and hit enter.  Notice how it categorizes your "finds" by type, ie. VIDEOS, PAGES, TOP PAGES, etc.  Easy to use & it will find what you're looking for.

Next most important thing:

     1) Look to the right side of this page ---> under the word "Navigation."

     2) Find the little box with the plus sign in it "[+]"

     3) Click on that box to get an expanded list of topics (sub-pages) about this site "AllTrikes.com"

            (if the box looks like this [-] then it's already open & you can see the tree of sub-pages below it)

 

More Site Navigation Hints.  Where are you?  You can also look up and to the left, under the AllTrikes logo, under "Activity" in the Menu bar, you see the words in grey:

 

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          This says you are on in Pages, under Admin's Pages on one called About this Website ....

                          these are live links and you can click any to navigate up a level or more.

 

Talk to Someone / Feedback! :  Look on the left edge of your page for the grey feedback tool.

 

About this Site:

What it is:  This site was created to give anyone and everyone interested in triking (Trikes, Weight Shift Control Aircraft, Lightsport & Ultralights, Powered Hang Gliders) a place to share ideas, photos, movies, information and to make friends around the world.
The intent is to have a level and friendly playing field for everyone.

How to Use this Site:

Please help write this portion!!!  As you start to use this site and learn new tricks, please share that here with others so that they can then use the site more expertly and create richer content for us all!


Friends: Live Chat: Tags / Tagging: Tag Cloud: Polls: function,

Page Icons:  "Hover" your mouse (move pointer over without clicking) and wait for a pop-up to explain the icon's function. With most icons, you can also try them by clicking on them without worry about causing a major problem.

Member Profile Page: This is your own page, it's about you and you can customize it to suit your liking. You can add / delete information about yourself for others to see.

You can set up your “Profile Page” to show you the information, photos, tags, groups, friends, etc that you most like to see when you come to Alltrikes.  When you set it up, it’s like a custom newspaper that delivers you the stories that you’re most interested in.

Widgets: You can add tools (widgets) to your profile page (click on the black "Add Widgets" button on the upper right of your page). You can customize your widgets- for example, enter a city into your Weather widget and hit save, and you will see weather info for your chosen city. In the grey bar at the top of every widget is a cog wheel icon- use it to customize widgets to your liking. Also find the "X" icon ("x" inside black circle) for deleting any widget from your profile page (don't worry, you can always use "Add Widgets" to get it back again). The grey bar itself can be used to drag your widgets around to permanently place them wherever you like on your page.

"Group Membership" Widget: See and manage groups you belong to there. If you want to join a private group, click on the "More Groups" link at the bottom of this widget. That will lead you to a page with links to "Create a New Group," "All Groups," "My Groups" (groups you've started / "own"), and "Group Invitations"

Pictures/ Photos / Photgraphs:
To upload Photos: Click on "Photos" in the menu bar at the top of this page. Once on the "Photo" page, look at the right hand sidebar and choose "create new album," or choose from one of "your albums" that you have already created. Once you have chosen or created an album you want to add photos into, click on it. You will then be prompted to add photos by either choosing from photos you already have or uploading new ones. (You can choose multiple photos if you have them in a folder on your desktop for example). If there is a problem, or you do not have the Flash plug-in enabled on your browser, choose "Basic Uploader." Enter a Title for your photo(s), add "Description" if you want. PLEASE add the appropriate tags (see tags below), Categories and Access, then click "Save." Uploading Videos / Movies: Videos are not stored on Alltrikes.com. First choose a video from Youtube.com, Vimeo.com, etc or upload one of your own movies to Youtube.com, etc. Then, click on "Videos" in the menu bar at the top of this page. Once on the "Video" page, click on add video. Enter a Title for your video. Enter the URL for your video (on you tube you can get the correct URL by clicking on "share" below the video on the youtube.com page). Copy/paste that URL into the space on the Video page here at AllTrikes.co. Add "Description" if you want. PLEASE add the appropriate tags (see tags below), Categories and Access, then click "Save."

Want more info on uploading Photos?  Look to the Right, under the word Navigation, and see where you are, and what other topics are related.  There are several there on uploading photos, videos & embedding content.  Expand any topic list by clickiing on the [+] symbol. 

Controlling ACCESS to your Pictures / Movies / Files:
Whenever you upload a picture, movie or file, set the drop down menu at the bottom near “save” to set your access preference for that file (Public, Logged in Users, Friends, Private, close Friends, etc.).
Do you want everyone to see it, without logging in / searchable by Google-- set to Public
Only want logged in “Trikers” to be able to see and discuss?:  Set to “Logged in Users”
    You may want to do this for things that might be controversial for the public or confusing to them.
Use the “Friends” setting to restrict viewing/access to your friends only.  etc

When you upload a file, select from the list : Logged In users, Friends, Private, Public If you choose (in order of increasing restriction):
   Public: Anyone can see the post / file
   Logged in Users: Only logged in site members can see the post / file / photo / movie / etc
   Friends: This post/file can only be viewed by logged in members of this site who you have also designated as "Friends"
  Private: This post/file can only be viewed by yourself
When setting access privileges consider what would be appropriate for the general public to see about you or triking in general. Some professional athletes do things that give their sports a black eye and distract from what the sport really is about yet grab all the media attention such that you'd think that the only thing professional baseball is about is performance enhancing drugs. On this site, each of us has the ability to set access privileges in a way that presents the vastly positive messages of the sport as the predominant feature of this site. Please help keep this sport that way.

Friends & Collections of Freinds (related to Access): To add a member as a friend, goo to their profile page (click on their avatar), once on their profile page, click on the link below their picture for “Add Friend.” This action will show up on the main activity page. Alternatively, click “Remove Friend” to end friend status- this does not show up on the main “activity” page. When you “Friend” someone here, they can then have access to sets of pictures that you have elected that only your friends can see (see setting access privileges for media below). Also, making someone your friend sets it up so that you can email each other through this site and you can also receive notifications here when friends post something. 

It is possible that you may friend "Joe" but Joe does not friend you back. In that case, Joe can see pictures you've set view preferences to "Friends only" but you will NOT be able to see photos that Joe has set to his friends only (of which you are apparently not Joe's friend). Think carefully who you want to friend.
Friend Requests: A list of the friend requests you have made to someone else (but that are not yet accepted) as well as the friend requests that others have made to be your friend can be found by clicking on your mail box icon (top left of page). Once on the mail page, you will see “Friend Requests” in the right hand menu bar at the top. click on that link and you can manage your requests: accept requests and revoke those that you have sent but at are not yet accepted.  If you would like to delete a friend, click on their icon and then choose “Remove Friend.”

Friend Collections:  see HERE

Tags / “Tagging”: There are two types of tags. 1) For photos (in albums only) there is a tag feature. Click on "Tag this Photo". A dialogue will appear that says select an area. Click on a corner of the area you wish to tag, then shift click on the opposite corner, the highlighted area will appear in the photo. When you shift click a second dialogue will appear that asks for the Tag name, fill in the box and click Tag. 2) For tagging, e.g. in Blogs, Pages, Files etc, there is a box below that allows you to tag the post for keywords. These help organize the site and can be used in searches.

Tag Cloud:  Tags also appear in the "Tag cloud" widget for quick access to tagged articles on a given topic. Posts can have more than one tag, entered as a comma separated list. (e.g. Nevada, Dry Lake, Runway) Tag Cloud: A list of words used as tags on posts to this website. The more often a particular "Tag" word appears, the larger (font) it appears in the tag cloud. Thus popular Tags such as perhaps the word "Trike" appear bigger, making it easier for you to see what's popular / trending. By clicking on a tag in the tag cloud, you can find the "Tag Cloud" on many of the pages here.

Live Chat: Blue floating box in the lower right corner.  If you don't see a floating blue box in the lower left, it may say Users or Offline-- click there to expand.  When other members are online, you can contact them via live chat and converse as fast as you can type back and forth. These conversations are not permanent- during an extended chat, some text will scroll off the top and be lost and at the end of a chat, when the member logs out and you hit the close chat button (x), the conversation is lost.  
To Chat:
  1. When someone else is online at the same time you are, their name(s) will appear in the floating blue box at the lower right corner of your browser.
  2 If you'd like to live chat with that person, click on their name in that box. A new box will appear.
 3. At the bottom of that new box, is a small text entry box.
  4. Type your text in the smaller box, hit “ENTER”
  5. your text will immediately pop-up on the other person's screen accompanied by a “boop” alert sound on their screen.
  And there you have it, you can chat back and forth as fast as you can type and hit “Enter.”


Polls: To create a new poll, click on “More” in the top menu bar and select “Polls.” “Your Polls” then opens and a button for “create a new poll” will appear in the right hand menu bar. You can also add various Poll Widgets (tools) to your Profile page (see widgets) Eventually, the top five / latest Polls should be visible on the front page (not just via “more”) to attract the best response rate! How can we (as admin) add widgets to the Activity page?

 

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Comments

  • Admin

    OK Monty, dun stole it for you. Updated your Avatar while I was at it. Enjoy your new status ;)

  • Monty

    hi boss, i done it again, i posted a blog, TOOL ED, (you know where) cos it was so easy, but my one blogging finger is smouldering, could i impose and ask you to wave a majic finger and bring it into the light, i luv you mostest, monty

  • Monty

    Hey your boss-ship I done it aging! I tried to post 'ken and the weedhopper' here but it vanished and went! I hadn't finished but went to 'you know who, and they grabbed it. Please refer to 94days ago and if its easy for you please swipe from there to 'here' , hugs etch.............monty

  • Admin

    I suspect you are just trying to lure me to the dark side Monty :)

  • Monty

    hey, your royal 'boss-ship' if you could slide, (with your magic slider) my blog 'TRIKES 2030? wott i just put on the'dark side' i'll spin a prayer wheel, next time i'm in NEPAL thanks, monty, hugs n' pharts

  • Monty

    me again boss, as usual i couldn't get my video ' a wee bit o wake burbulance' to upload, though the ' other guys' gobbled it up! wassup! monty

  • Monty

    even my comment went 'somewhere' i dunno where, monty

  • Admin

    Greetings again Monty... .do you have a youtube link to make it easy for me, or do I need to sneak into the dark side again?

  • Monty

    situation' sneak' called for! i need chastising for my stupidityness. some of us are just beyond all hope of redemtion. monty

  • Monty

    hi boss, my typing finger, is plumb wore out adding a blog to 'the dark side' is there any way you could, with YOUR' magic finger go ZAPP! and slide 'be careful what you wish for' onto the 'enlightened ones' site?? i swear it aint' lazyness but i don't have a lot of luck in posting here, in gratefull anticipation i remain, yore 'umble servant, monty stone.

  • Rebel

    hey Ken having a problem uploading videos I think there is a bug somewhere I keep getting this when I log in
    Pz7FrDHVNTk (1).swf

  • Leo

    Me too Reb. Not trying to upload anything but I get the same warning from my windows defender.

  • white eagle

    Iam getting the same reb. Sometimes when i click on things it will start loading 20- 30 pages real quick and i have to delete them with numbers like you get. Kinda freaks me out a bit.
    So i end up posting more in the yang side when i want to post on the yen side?

  • Jozinko

    Me too guys...the same issue

  • white eagle

    Whooo hoooo not sure but i think admin may have got it fixed! Glich didnt show up. Thanks admin. Just takes time to work the bugs out np!
    Ill try and donate as soon as i get un burried from bad winter!

  • Jozinko

    Thanks admin! :)

  • Admin

    LOL, I didn't change a thing. You guys are causing and fixing your own problems somehow :)

  • Admin

    OK I got to the bottom of the funky files. These are from youtube and they are the previews for the videos. I'm ONLY getting them if I'm using Internet Explorer, If I use chrome on Windoze they don't appear, and also not on a mac. So if you go to the videos page with IE you will get lots of them if there are new videos. I've virus checked them and scanned them and they are not harmful. Perhaps just a benign reminder that the world has moved forward and IE may not be keeping up with the times. No surprise there.

  • white eagle

    Thank you. They made me a bit nervous just because i dont understand the matrix of things , hackers, goverment intrusivness,who knows who is who and what is what anymore.
    I feel more sucure knowing what they are. Thanks

  • Admin

    I did some more digging on this and I found that YOU can fix this (@wambleska @Sajan @rebel777 @Damien). Go to get.adoble.com/flashplayer and update your flash player/plugin. I did this for my Windoze test browser and it now handles the video previews just fine ... without additional downloads

  • Monty

    hey your most esteemed adminship, i just got through putting a blog 'again, almost' on the 'dark side' and my one digit i used is wore to a frazzle, could you please wave your magic marker and slide it to the 'light side'. hugs cuddles and farts, monty

  • Monty

    your esteemed adminship, it done happened again, i laboriusly scribed a wordy 'ups and down of triking' when pow! page expired. are page making timed by minutes? or digit count? sob sob and snivel.

  • Admin

    There is an automatic log-out of users @ 15-20 minutes of inactivity

  • Tussock

    Don't worry, Monty - I get grizzles about my inactivity too. All logged out after a prolonged squawk?