Website Access - Features and Benefits
Now you have found us some of your curiosity will be satisfied here
Find below here the different possibilities of web access for different people / members. Everything in green is an addittion to the former feature and benefit lists.
Site Visitor:
You are not logged into the website and will see the following features:
Home - Getting Involved - History of NaFoF
Clubs
Event Calendar
Contact; Make sure you let us know your first and last name, so we can give you an account to the website - with this account you get notifications of events and our weekly newsletter straight into your inbox.
Blogs
Recent Posts
Website Help
Potential Member:
You have requested a log-in to the website (fill in contact form and ask :) and when you have received the 'An administrator created an account for you' email, you can log in by clicking the link provided in that email.
>Please check your spam box - some mail accounts will flag the email as spam - please mark the email as not spam to prevent other email from the site from going into your spam box
>Please don't forget to set yourself a new password!
After all that (you are logged in) you will see the following features:
Home - Getting Involved - History of NaFoF
Clubs
Event Calendar; You will be getting notifications by email when a new event is posted, related to your club. When you go to the website to look at this event, you will see where the event exactly is and you will be able to contact the event organiser through the website (click on their name and hit the contact button).
Contact
Blogs; You will be getting notifications by email when a new blog entry is made (this will be most likely be the latest weekly newsletter).
>My Account; You can add a signature and upload a picture. You can also manage your subscriptions here with regard to which types notification emails you'd like to recieve. Be aware to keep the two password fields empty if you don't wish to change your password again.
Recent Posts
User List; If you are looking to contact someone specific, like your club's chairman. You'll be able to review all the other website user's profiles and you can contact them by email through the site. This protects the reciever's email address.
Website Help
Log Out
Member:
Once you have handed over your hard earned cash your account will be upgraded by a website administrator - you wont get a notification of this - you can see your website membership level in your user profile or on the user list. If you haven't previously had a website login you'll recieve an email regarding your new account (see the potential member information above).
After all that (you are logged in) you will see the features of a potential member, and in addition, the following:
Comments; you can add comments to the bottom of various website posts such as news and events - (like; 'Book me a plate, please').
Blogs; You will be getting notifications by email when a new blog entry is made (this will be most likely be the latest weekly newsletter) and you can leave a comment. Now you also have the possibility of writing your own blog - set the 'Content visibility' to Public (to see for all), Registered Potential Members (and all levels above) or Members (all paid up Members only)! If you also pick a 'Club', whomever is registered at that club will get a notification of your blog and your blog will appear in the 'River of News' of that club (this all of course after your entry has been approved by the site moderator, as you understand that inappropriate postings will not be published :)
Members Area
Log Out
Committee Member:
Same as Member, but with added features and benefits to make sure you can 'do your job' ;) For examples; have a look in the Member Area..
>Blogs can be set just for you and your committee buddies.
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As we have just launched this website, not all is ironed out completely and we will be adding features and updates on a regular basis. This also means that we would like to ask you to contact us (use the Contact form or the Feedback button on every page) if there is anything incorrect, not working or doesn't make sense. This will help us enormously with the development and betterment of our site!
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