Site Help

Site Guide for the LiveDay1.com Community
NavigatingLiveDay1.com: The best way to learn your way around LiveDay1.com is to explore, contribute, and visit often! While we are focused on providing a highly navigable site - here's a little insight towards the nuts and bolts, this guide covers:

Sign In
Your Home Page
Forums / Groups / Blogs
Friends
Other Options:
Comments
Photos & Videos
Invite
Tags
RSS Feeds
Music Player

The first thing you'll want to do is sign in (or join if you haven't already!)

Once you've signed in, you'll see a personalized greeting, and you'll be able to use the Inbox/Friends/Settings features:

Each icon deals with a different section. Click on your name to edit your profile and personal settings. Click on the email icon to view messages you’ve sent and received. Click on the icon of a person to view your friends and friend requests you’ve sent and received.

Your Home Page

Click on the "My Profile" tab at the top to go to your home page. This is your very own page to customize as you wish. You can even add your own blog! It’s simple to upload photos, videos and add your own captions! Note: Your profile responses are visible ONLY to you, this is to allow you to update them accordingly as your life evolves. Other Members do not have the ability to view your profile content. Feel free to click on any Member to verify!

FORUMS / GROUPS / BLOGS

There are three basic places for you to post comments to the site and or solicite feedback.

~ Forums: this page is for general discussions. Click on the "Forums" tab and check it out.

~ Groups: In Groups, you may post discussions according to topic, and even create your own Group. Click the "Groups" tab to visit.

~ Blogs: In Blogs, you may blog away on any topic you'd like! Share something brief about a goal, an experience, take a poll to see if others would prefer a certain group...use your imagination! Click on the "Blogs" tab and chat it up with your fellow Community Members.

Friends

To send a community member a friend request, click on the “add as a friend” link, located under their main profile picture on the upper left corner. Once that person accepts your request, you will be friends and you can track each other’s activity on the community!

Other options

Comments: Comments are separate from message board responses. A comment is a one-on-one message from you to another person. You can comment on another member’s page, picture, blog entry or video. The comment will appear on that person’s page in the exact place you left it.

Photos & Videos: You can upload photos and videos either from your homepage, or by clicking the "Photos" or "Videos" tab. You can upload your own videos from your computer, and you can also upload YouTube videos to the Videos section. In the event you do not own the content, please be sure to include artist information for proper recognition.

You may also insert YouTube videos into your forum posts: Go to the desired video on http://www.youtube.com/ and copy and paste the “embed” code, located on the upper right, directly into your comment box.

Invite: Allows you to send an invitation via email to a friend who is not yet a community member. Just add your friend’s name and email address and they’ll receive an email from us!

Tags: A tag is a key word. Adding tags to your comments, videos, photos, etc., allows you to search for other pages with similar tags within the LiveDay1.com Community.

For Advanced Users: RSS

RSS feeds are provided for a variety of different sections of our Community. You may subscribe to feeds for the Main Discussion area, the Latest Activity, or subscribe to a Group feed, for example. You may use these feeds with a variety of RSS reader software and web-based news readers or personalizable homepages (like iGoogle or My Yahoo!)

Besides offering RSS feeds for LiveDay1.com Community content, you may add RSS feeds to your homepage. Your RSS box on the left vertical bar, under your photos, allows you to enter the URL of your blog or another blog that you like. Your friends can see the titles of the blog entries as well as small excerpts!

Music Player: The Day¹ Music Player is located both on the Home Page as well as your individual User Page (named "My Page" when you log onto the site). The Music Player by default will allow you to play music files until you visit another page (or site), however, if you find that to be a bother - simply select the "Open Popup Window" icon situated between the "Shuffle Playback" and the "Speaker" icon and the Music Player will launch in a new Browser Window. This instance will continue to play your music while you visit other pages, sites, or even close your browser window (leaving the music player open of course). The following image locates the "Open Popup Window" for your reference: