Help

Website Areas

The new website has three areas – the Main section, the Gallery and the Forums

• The Main section contains updates about the Squadron and the Association and links to stories, Squadron history and previous newsletters
• In the Gallery are all the photographs, divided into albums – you can view the photographs, comment on them, run a slideshow, and even upload your own photographs
• The Forums are the place to leave questions and reply to other members’ queries

Logging In

• When you log into the Main section you are also automatically logged into the Gallery and the Forums

Usernames and Passwords

• If you do not have a username and password, go to the Register page and complete the form. A username and  password will be emailed to you by the webmaster (please be patient – he’s not always at the computer!)
• If you have forgotten your password, click on the “Lost your password?” link on the Login screen, fill in your username and e-mail address, and your password will be e-mailed to you
• If you’ve forgotten your username you can use the form on the Contact FourFax page and the webmaster will send you a reminder
• If you’ve forgotten your e-mail address…

Your Profile

• Once you’ve logged in you’ll be taken to a Dashboard screen
• Here, by selecting Profile, you can amend your personal details, such as your e-mail address and password, and write posts for submission to the website
• New posts will not be published until the webmaster has had an opportunity to review them

The Gallery

• The Gallery is organised into albums, such as “Harrier GR7”, “Hunter Days”, and “1912-39”
• An album is recognisable by the spiral ring binder in the left-hand side
• Clicking on an album shows you the photographs in that album
• Underneath each album and photograph is an “action” menu – here you can choose to leave a comment, run a slideshow, and in the Members’ Upload album, upload your own photographs
• If you don’t see an “action” menu it’s because you haven’t logged into the website – return to the Main section and log in

Scanning Photographs

• Scan at a resolution of no more than 150 dpi
• Scale the pictures to something like 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 pixels
• Save them in JPEG format with a .jpg extension
• Upload to the Gallery (see below), or e-mail to the webmaster (see Contact FourFax page)
• Remember to include details such as the photographer’s name, where the pictures were taken, who’s in them etc.

Uploading Photographs to the Gallery

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Navigate to the Gallery

Find the “Members’ Uploads” album (the first one)

Click on “album actions” then “add items”, then “From Web Browser”

Select the files you want to upload and finally scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on “Add Items”

The Forums

• To return to the main Fourfax page from the Forums, click on the Return to FourFax website link at the bottom of the page

RSS Feeds

• The site has RSS feeds for the Main section posts and comments
• RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it allows other programs to see when a website has been updated
• On the Mac, Safari supports RSS and NetNewsWire is a full-blown RSS reader
• On the PC, Abilon, RSSOwl and Active Web Reader all score highly on versiontracker.com
• Scroll down to the bottom of the sidebar on the Main section to see the links to the RSS feeds

Website Doesn’t Look Right?

• You’re probably using Internet Explorer as your browser. It isn’t very standard nowadays and many sites do not display in IE the way their designers intended
• The best thing to do is download FireFox
• It’s a great browser, it’s a free download and it’s available for Mac and PC

Contact FourFax

• To contact one of the committee members or the webmaster, please go to the Contact FourFax page