Welcome Tour

[starriseadmin]

If you are reading this post, you have successfully navigated to the Star Rise Community Forum and are reading the first post in the "Manifester Meetings, Events, and Announcements" forum. We are still in the process of developing and adding to the site, but please post any comments or questions you may have about the forum after this post; and we will get back to you as soon as possible. This post is a little preview and guide of what you can do and where you can go in the Star Rise Community site, starting with the first community page as an index. I suggest you open a new tab in your browser and navigate to the first page of the forum (http://www.starrisecommunity.com/MyBB_Starrise/), so you can refer to it easily as you read this post.

At the top of the page in the header menu, you can click on "The Manifester Blog", "Calendar", "Search", "Member List", and "Help". "The Manifester Blog" item takes you to The Manifester's (Manifester Yada's) dedicated blog site. The "Calendar" item opens a calendar which will contain notable dates and Manifester meeting itineraries of The Manifester and friends. The "Search", "Member List", and "Help" items function similarly as these types of items do on other web sites.

If you are a guest or not logged in on the site, the menu band underneath the header menu will greet you as "Hello Guest" and offer you the options of registering or logging in. Once you register and log in, the this menu band will display "Welcome back" and your user name. The "welcome band" will also display various details about your visit(s) and access to your "User CP" (User Control Panel) as well as your "Buddy List". Check out your User CP, where you can send and receive messages from a standard-styled e-mail type selection panel, edit your profile, and manage your options (such as your Buddy List) and save your forum contributions as drafts while you are working on them (a really neat feature!). If you would like to use a spell checker, it is very easy to download and install the Google toolbar at (http://www.google.com/toolbar/ie/index.html) which includes a spell checker button (titled "ABC Check") which will check the spelling of any online input box text you have inserted. Just click the ABC Check button on the Google toolbar, and the misspelled or unrecognized words will be highlighted. Click on any highlighted word for spelling suggestions. Click the "ABC Stop" button on the toolbar to stop spell checking.

From your User Panel you can go to the Star Rise Community Forums index/main page at any time by clicking on the "Star Rise Community Forums" link just under the "welcome band" at the top of the page.

Under the "Welcome to the Star Rise Community" section, there are currently two forums listed:

1. "Manifester Meetings, Events, and Announcements" where you are reading now (for information updates posted by the Manifester Yada and Star Rise Community Administrators and Moderators);
2. "The People's Blogs and Comments".

Check out "The People's Blogs and Comments" where members of the Star Rise Community can create a blog by clicking the blue "Create a Blog" button under the "welcome band" on the top right. First you will be guided to create a title and description for your blog. Then you will be able to add blog posts under your title band and designate whether your posts are public or private and whether comments are allowed on your blog. Next time you log in, you can click on the "Manage Blog" button to access and manage your blog. This is a neat plug-in addition for this community board. One drawback is that the blog creator plug-in does not have a "Save as Draft" feature. However, since all code for these programs is free and open source, we plan to code that feature in the future. Please view the Manifester Yada's "Cats and Dogs" blog for an example of a blog listing (access by clicking on the "Cats and Dogs" title once in "The People's Blogs and Comments") and find out if cats and dogs go to heaven. Your comments are welcome.

In the next section down, "The Manifester Blog Discussions", two forums have been opened where members can start discussions: "Manifester Love Blogs" and "The Father's House Forum". Click on the "View The Manifester Love blogs" and the "View The Manifester Father's House blogs" links to view a collection of categorized blogs on The Manifester blog site. Click your browser's "back" arrow or button to be returned to the Star Rise Community Forum to post your questions, answers, or other discussions concerning these blogs.

The next section down, "The Manifester Gallery Discussions", offers "The Manifester Gallery Forum" to respond to "The Manifester Gallery" and "Tube Video Gallery" presentations. The Manifester Gallery is still under development. The Tube Video Gallery is a plug-in feature that provides the means to present video collections on our site. Videos that have been posted on YouTube and other video streaming services on the web can be posted here. We invite you to check out the "Categories" list and locate and add videos such as UFO sightings and news stories on the web relevant to the listed Manifest concepts categories. We look forward to having a generous collection of videos added by community members which support the Manifest concepts. Each added video will await moderation to help us prevent undesirable or vulgar content from being posted on our site. If you have any questions concerning using the Tube Video Gallery plug-in, please post them as replies to this post you are reading.

The next section down provides a copy of the old Manifester Community sharings from all the different old community areas in one lump category. Although the category is closed for discussion, nevertheless it is a beautiful read.

The Board Statistics section, forum button legend band, and operational information band is displayed near the bottom of the page.

Additional features are coming, including live broadcast radio for Gentou sessions (including the ANTI-SWINE FLU VIRAL IMUNITY SESSION promised on the Manifester blogs - Flu Murder at High Noon....., a chat function, and a new Manifester toolbar.

That concludes this Welcome Tour. We hope you enjoy the Manifester Star Rise Community.

Star Rise Community Administrator