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As mentioned before, this is the ‘Heart of the
Site’. It consists of several sections, most of which contain several
forums. To read the forums, just click on one and it will display a
number of topics. Select a topic, click it, and you can read what the
person who created it had to say, and what other people have said in
reply.
In order for you to reply, or to create a topic
of your own, you need to be a Registered User. It is easy to
register. Just click on the ‘Register’ button at top right and then
read and agree to the forum rules. Under some circumstances, we will
waive the ‘Under 13 Rule’, but we will make announcements in the
‘Administrator’s Section’ as and when we decide on this. The over 13
rule will NOT apply to ‘Family Groups’ (See below) where there is
parental supervision.
After reading and accepting the rules, then
please complete the form. Very little of it is compulsory (Items
marked *). Your Username can be real or fictitious, but please give
it some thought.
After that, everything should be
self-explanatory.
UPLOADING IMAGES AND FILES
It is possible to add pictures to your
posts which always makes them more interesting and informative. The picture must be on your
hard drive and must be in any one of the following file
formats:- jpg, jpeg,
gif, png and it must not be
larger than 200Kb. When
you make your post you will see an icon of a tree with an ‘up arrow’
that says ‘Image upload’ when you hover over it. Click this then browse to
your picture file, click OK, then click OK on the message that comes
up asking you to be patient.
The image should then upload and appear in your post.
If it doesn’t, please let us
know.
FAMILY GROUPS.
We have never heard of any other web site or forum offering this.
It is a forum bearing your family name (see below) which is completely
unique to your family. If you want to invite everyone to a barbeque,
that’s how to do it, and they can tell you whether or not they are
coming and how many bottles they are bringing. The possibilities are
endless. Save on Christmas Cards.
All the family groups are listed in the ‘Family
Groups’ Section, but you can only see your own. This is what you need
to do to set it up.
Email us and ask us to set up the group. To do this, you must
live in Henllan and you automatically become the ‘Head’ of the group
and control it. You, and you alone, then give us the usernames of
those people you want in your group, and we make the necessary
adjustments to allow them into it.
When asking us to set up the group, you need to
give us a group name. The name should reflect the family name, but
not be confined to it – after all, we don’t want the confusion of more
than one Jones Family Group and the real risk of putting someone into
the wrong family. Instead, please use something like the “The
Scattered Jones Family” – something imaginative and unique. When
asking us to add someone new to the group, be careful to use the exact
group name – if we can’t find an exact match, we won’t do it. And
remember, only the Head of the group can request that a user be added.
The Admin staff are the only ones who can see
your group apart from your group members. They will look at it
from time to time to ensure there are no objectionable posts, but they
will always consider anything they see to be subject to the very strictest
confidentiality rules.
OTHER GROUPS.
In exactly the same way as we can have Family Groups, we can have
other groups of people with similar interests, provided they are based
in, or relevant to, Henllan. This can include Football Clubs, Women’s
Institute, Keen Gardeners, Ramblers, anything. Again, it needs a Head
and the Head must either live in Henllan or be running some sort of
activity directly involving Henllan.
Just
email
us with the same info needed for Family groups.
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