Registration & Login
You need to create an account before posting. To take advantage of all the features offered in our Community Forums, such as setting your own avatar, tracking post counts, emailing users, private messages, access private forums, and many other you will need to have an account. It only takes a few seconds to register, and it is recommended you do so.
To create an account you will need to visit the Registration page and complete the form for creating a new account. Here you will specify details such as your login name and email address – you will also be asked to specify a password. If you are not asked to specify a password, one will be emailed to you after successfully registering.
After successfully registering you will have a username and password. Be sure to recored this info where you can easily find it. You can then visit the login page and enter your username and password to login.
When logging in if you do not check the ‘Remember Me’ option you will be automatically logged off after a length of inactivity, usually 20 minutes. If you would like the site to always log you in automatically, please check the ‘Remember Me’ checkbox.
If you forgot your username and/or password you can visit the Forget Your Password page and have both your username and a new password emailed to you by entering the email account you're registered with. You will be sent a new password since we store your password encrypted and have no way of retrieving the original value. Once you receive your username and new password you can login and change your password back if you like.
If you’ve registered and can’t login, check to ensure you have a valid username and password. If you are sure the username and password are valid, but still can’t login you may either require account activation or your account may be on hold. In this case it is best to contact the board administrator(s) or moderator(s).
First check to ensure your username and password are correct. If you still can’t login your account has either been put on hold or deleted due to inactivity. Please contact the system admin(s) or moderator(s).
User Profile & Settings
A profile is information about your account that controls how you view information within the Community Forums. This includes details about posts you’ve contributed to, personal information you wish to share such as your web address or weblog address, as well as setting that control how you interact with these Community Forums such as: themes, time zone, and many other settings.
Setting your timezone will enable the Community Forums to display all dates and time relative to your time zone.
A signature is a message that is appended to the end of any posts you make in the forums. You can edit your signature from the profile page. This signature will then appear at the bottom of any messages posted by you.
An avatar is a feature of the forums which allows for an image to be displayed along with your posts. Avatars may be enabled or disabled by you or the system admin(s).
You will see an avatar section when viewing your profile. From here you can complete the form to name the avatar you wish to use by uploading an avatar image or specifying a URL to your avatar. You will also need to enable your avatar for it to be displayed with your posts.
Community Forums are designed to be multi-language friendly. Currently the only available language is English, but additional language packs can be installed to add support for other languages. Within your profile you will see a listing of the available languages.
The date format used to display any date information can be configured from your profile.
Email tracking is a feature which will send emails to you when messages that you are subscribed to change. You can turn off all email tracking globally from your profile.
There are many different icons that can show up next to usernames in the forums. Common examples are administrators, moderators, or top posters. Other images may be displayed based on groups the user belongs to.
You need to be logged in before viewing/using these areas. This is primarily to protect the privacy of users who have shared their information or to prevent unwanted/unsolicited emails.
Navigation
A Forum Group is a top level grouping of related forums. A forum group contains one or more forums.
A Forum is a grouping of related threads of discussion.
A Thread is a grouping of related posts. A Thread contains one or more Posts. The first post becomes the Thread and replies to the original post increment details on the Thread, such as the reply count or last post.
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Topic with posts you have not read.
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Topic with posts you have read.
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Popular topic with posts you have not read. A topic
becomes popular after a certain number of views and posts (administrator
defined).
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Popular topic with posts you have read. A topic becomes
popular after a certain number of views and posts (admin defined).
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Announcement you have not read
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Announcement you have read
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A pinned topic with posts you have not read. Pinned topics are
displayed before other topics until they become unpinned.
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A pinned topic with posts you have read. Pinned topics are displayed
before other topics until they become unpinned.
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A pinned popular topic with posts you have not read. A pinned topic
with enough views or replies to become popular.
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A pinned popular topic with posts you have read. A pinned topic with
enough views or replies to become popular.
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A locked topic with posts you have not read. Locked topics do not
allow replies.
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A locked topic with posts you have read. Locked topics do not allow
replies.
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A forum may not display any threads if there are no threads in the forum or if filters on the forms have been applied and no threads match the filter. An example of a filter is filtering to display threads newer than a certain date, such as threads new in the past 2 weeks.
All forums are moderated. After posting a message in a moderated forum you may receive a message stating that the post is awaiting moderation. Once the moderator(s) approve your post you post will become visible. The moderators may choose to move, edit, or delete your post to ensure that the post is topical to the current forum.
The icons next to threads when viewing a forum indicate different status. You can move your mouse cursor over these icons to see what the different status / types of threads are.
An announcement is a special post type that is always displayed at the top of a forum for a configured amount of time. The purpose of an announcement is to increase the visibility of certain topics.
A sticky topic is a special post that causes a post to sort to the top of a forum for a specified amount of time. A sticky topic is similar to an announcement, whereas an announcement is displayed separate from other threads and usually does not allow replies.
A locked thread is a special post that does not allow replies. Once a user locks a post or an admin/moderator locks a thread no more posts are allowed.
Yes, you can sort threads when viewing a forum by Author, Replies, Views, and Last Post. The default sort for a forum is to display the newest threads first (Last Post descending). To sort simply click on the options button at the bottom of the screen and select your desired sort order and click 'Apply'.
The XML icon is linked to the RSS feed for the forum. RSS is used to allow other applications to subscribe to a forum's posts.
This icon indicates the user’s online status. A green icon means the user has been active recently (usually within the last 15 minutes). A red icon means the user has not recently been active. You can hover your mouse over this icon to see details about the user’s past activity.
If you are attempting to access a forum that you have visited before, but now receive an ‘unknown forum’ error there are two likely causes. The first cause is that the forum you are attempting to access is private and you are not signed in. The second cause is that the forum has been removed.
Posting
Yes and no. You cannot type HTML directly into the editor. If you are using Internet Explorer the default editor for creating new posts will be a Rich Text Editor that will automatically format posts using HTML. If you post with a browser other than Internet Explorer a standard HTML textbox is used and BBCode can be used to mark-up posts.
BBCode is a special syntax for formatting plaintext posts.
Yes, however, this requires the moderator(s) or admin(s) to enable this permission for user’s on a forum-by-forum basis.
Emoticons are graphical elements that can be added within the body of a post to add emotions to the post. Common examples are the use of smilies within the contents of a post. There are a pre-defined set of emoticons, however the admin(s) can add additional ones.
You can post a new message to a forum in several ways. When viewing a forum you should see an image button reading New Topic. Clicking on this image button will take you to a form for posting a message or ask you to login first. If you do not see the New Topic image button you may not have enough permissions – even after logging in – to post a message to the forum even though you are allowed to view the forum.
You can reply to an existing post using either the Reply or Quote image buttons displayed with the post. If you do not see the Reply or Quote image buttons when viewing a post you either do not have permissions to reply or the post may not allow replies.
You will see an Edit image button next to posts you have made. Clicking on this image button will allow you to edit your post.
You will see a Delete image button next to new posts you have made. If a post you have made has one or more replies you will no longer be able to delete the post.
See How do I add Signature to my Post? in the User Profile and Settings section.
See What is an avatar? And How do I Set my Avatar in the User Profile and Settings section.
Power User Tips
The site looks best with Microsoft Internet Explorer. For a free download go to:
www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx
Firefox is another great browser. For a free download go to:
www.mozilla.com
Pour a hot or cold one, sit back and check out what NWV bloggers have to say:
www.newworldview.com/blogs/Bloggers.aspx
Just add the above link to your bookmarks or favorites!
Add a comment or two and see what they have to say.
Did you know that you can subscribe to any forum you want? Even better, you can also get individual emails sent! Here's how.
To subscribe to any forum:
1. Go to the Forums Subscription page:
www.newworldview.com/forums/ForumSubscriptions.aspx
2. Under SUBSCRIBE, on the right side, click on/check any forum you wish to recieve email from.
3. Click SAVE to save changes.
To receive emails from any forum you subscribe to:
1. Go to your User Profile:
www.newworldview.com/user/EditProfile.aspx
2. Click on the EMAIL tab.
3. Under EMAIL OPTONS, check YES on ALL THREE OPTIONS.
4. SAVE CHANGES
On the Download page, if your browser doesn't play the audio file when you click DOWNLOAD, you can just right-click on DOWNLOAD to save directly to your computer and play! Be sure to rename the end of the file to dot-MP3 so your computer will recognize it.
Firefox Settings:
Some folks are having a problem because Firefox defaults to Apple Quicktime to play MP3 files. So you have to change your settings in Firefox, don't use the Apple Plug-in play MP3 files, change that to Real Player or Windows media player.
1. Tools => Options => Downloads => View and Edit Actions
2. Highlight the MP3 => change Action, etc...
It is the Apple Quicktime plug-in that does not work right.
Tags are one of the new features which can be a lot of fun, once you get familiar with them.
Notice the oddly sized pile of words in the
Popular Tags section to the right side when you first enter the forums? Those are tags, tags created by anyone who posts and adds them to the bar below the message box.
The more tags of the same subject, "Kris" for example, the larger the tag will appear in the "word cloud" to the right.
If you click on one of those words, you'll be led to a listing of those posts which have the tags. This can be very handy, say if you're looking for Seth quotes, and there is a "seth quotes" tag in the word cloud.
If you use the "Select Tags" button to the right of the bar, you can be sure to choose those tags which have been created already, thus making one subject larger instead of having two related words, such as "poem" and "poetry."
Tags can be on one or more words, separated by a comma or semi colon, for instance in this post I'm using:
FAQ; User Tips; Tags
Where "User Tips" is actually one tag.
The best way to choose tags for your post is to start with the most basic subject matter. If it's about an entity such as Seth, Elias or Kris, start there. If your post involves a dream, put in a comma and add dream next. Any other significant parts of the conversation could be added too such as
symbology, past lives, precognition, if any of these came up during the discussion.
Now that you understand how they work, jump in and start tagging. The best way to utilize the features of this new community is for everyone to use them as much as possible.
Tag, your it!
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then having your own avatar can really enhance your online experience. Here's how to upload your own from your computer hard drive.
1. Sign in.
2. Click on your
User Name, next to "Signed in as ..." near the top left. (This takes you to your User Profile.)
3. Click on the
Avatar tab.
4. Click
YES to Enable Avatar
5. Click
BROWSE. A file manager window pops up to YOUR computer.
6. When you find the picture you want as your avatar,
SELECT it. It will now appear in the UPLOAD AVATAR window.
7. Click
UPDATE (this loads the image from your computer to NWV). But you're not done yet!
8. Click
SAVE CHANGES to finalize. (It can take the system ten minute or more to show the update.)
You're done!
Every account comes with a 1.5 megabyte Photo Gallery. You can load up to 200 images!
1. "
Sign in" to your account.
2. On the gray nav-bar: click on
"Photos".
3. Go to the bottom left of the page: click on "
All Galleries"
4. Look under "Subscriber Galleries": click on your "
USER NAME"
5. On the right side, under "Common Tasks" click on "
add picture". This takes you to the Control Panel.
6. Click on the "
Upload Photo" button. Up pops a window.
7. Resize the window by putting your mouse on the bottom right corner.
Click AND hold AND drag to resize.
8. Click the "
Browse" button (this opens your file manager on your computer).
9. Browse your computer for an image, then
click on it with your mouse. You will see its name appear in the box.
10. Click the "
Upload" button in the lower right. This uploads the image to the system computer. But you're not done yet!
11. Put in any comments, etc. Notice there are four tabs, each controls something. You can PREVIEW before you save.
12. Be sure to SAVE ALL CHANGES by clicking on the "
SAVE" button in the lower right.
13. All done!
NOTE:
You can download a free photo/graphics editor called
Iview to resize your images. Many images from digital cameras are too big for a web page. This editor will resize them and make them up to 15 times smaller. This way you can load many more images into your personal gallery.
Download Free IrfanView Photo Editor
On Yahoo! I could get a Daily Digest instead of individual emails. Is this possible on the new list?
1. Click on your "logged in as name." This takes you to your User Profile. (You must be logged in to access.)
2. Click on "Email Options".
3. Make sure that all three options are set to YES. (Be sure to SAVE changes.)
4. Then, go to "Forum Subscriptions":
http://www.newworldview.com/forums/ForumSubscriptions.aspx
5. Check "Subscribe" to select any forum to receive emails. (Again, be sure to SAVE changes. Bottom left button.) That will limit the amounts of emails you get, in essence you're creating your own Digest!
6. Further, when you go into ANY forum you're subscribed to, at the bottom of the Discussion page is a "More Options" tab.
7. Under "Send Email": you can change your settings to turn emails OFF. (Be sure to click APPLY to save!) This way you can further customize which Forums you receive emails from.
There are three different ways to affect font size!
First, in each user profile is a setting to set what type of text editor is used. The system now defaults to "Enhanced," but she needs to check to be sure she's set to "Enhanced."
1. Click on your name to go to your User Profile.
2. Click on Site Options.
3. Find "Content Editor" and change to Enhanced.
Second, is in the enhanced text editor when posting:
1. It's right below "Message" and next to "Font Family" you'll see the point size.
2. Use CTRL+A to select all.
3. Then just change the font size or type. (Be sure to SAVE).
Third, in each user profile is a setting to change how big fonts size on each Community page (only affects Community pages, not the rest of the HTML webpages):
1. Click on your name to go to your User Profile.
2. Click on Site Options
3. Find "Font Size" and change to taste. (Note: this affects ALL pages, and the first technique affects only text that you edit in posts).
RSS feeds are a new and powerful way to customize Internet content through your web browser. There are two main ways to use RSS feeds in the forums:
1. to read every topic and see the number of comments, 2. to read a single topic.
To get an RSS summary page of any forum:
1. Go to a forum main page, for example, Community » Sethnet » Discussion
2a. On your web browser, the RSS icon
will light up, which indicates an RSS page is available. Click on the RSS icon, to read the summary page.
2b. OR, you can click on the black downward triangle to the right of the RSS icon
, to check for additional RSS pages.
2c. OR, look for the RSS Available icon
, and click on the icon to read a summary page.
3. Click on SUBSCRIBE TO THIS FEED to add it to your RSS Reader.
4. Access your RSS Feeds to read (for example, MS Explorer has a little gold star in the upper left. Click on it and you see all RSS Feeds).
All RSS pages have links to the website so you can post if you wish.