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The trAce WebBoard
community area is fast and reliable and offers an excellent help
page plus live chat, instant messaging, and offline mailing by subscription.
WebBoard is the place to discuss writing issues via email,
to meet the trAce Writers-in-Residence, and to workshop your writing.
We hope you'll join us. Please introduce yourself and say hello.
http://hum-webboard.ntu.ac.uk/~trace
Beginner's
introduction | How to use Chat | How to participate via email
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How to include hyperlinks in your posts
Beginners' Quick
Guide
You
are welcome to read the discussions as a guest without signing
up, but in order to post messages you must sign up (this is a
separate process from joining trAce).
We
recommend you join trAce (which puts
you on our mailing list) and sign up with WebBoard as well to
get the most out of the trAce community discussions.
Please
note that by joining one you do not automatically become registered
with the other. (Privacy
Policy)
Ten
steps to your first message
- Click
on http://hum-webboard.ntu.ac.uk/~trace
and on the Welcome! page click New Users
- Complete
the New User Information form. Fields marked with a red
bullet MUST be filled in, the rest is optional. trAce is a community
of writers and it is most appropriate to use your real name.
However, a pen name is acceptable. Don't forget to enter the
same password twice. Once completed, click the Create button.
- You
will now find yourself in the main conference area, with a list
of conferences on the left and a welcome message on the right.
To list the messages in a conference, click on a conference
name, e.g. click on Information for New Members at the
top. A list of topics appears, and when you click on one (try
Information for New Users) the messages appear in the
right frame and you can scroll down and read all the messages
on that topic (3 in this case)
- To
see how many messages are in a topic, click on the + sign next to the topic. For example, click
on + next to Add Your Picture and you will
see 11 or more messages. It's usually simplest to follow the
thread of messages from the beginning if you wish to explore
a topic fully. Take some time to browse around the messages
a little.
- Below
Conferences is the option to look at New Messages.
Once you start coming regularly to WebBoard, you can display
(and read) just the most recent messages by clicking <number>
New Messages. Try that now. As you start following a conference,
such as Poetry or Reading, you can return to read
just the new messages in that conference and easily keep up
to date with
- Once
you've read all the messages in a conference, or seen enough,
you can mark it as read. Click MARK ALL READ in the blue
menubar. Click on the name of a conference to mark all messages
in that conference as read.
- Now
post your introductory message. Click Introduce Yourself
Here from the conference list, then click POST at
the left of the blue menubar.
- The
form headed Post a New Topic in "Introduce Yourself Here
(New)" has a space for a topic. Please don't leave this
blank, it should be indicative of the subject of your post and
encourage other users to read it. "Hello from <your name>
or <your location>" is common in this conference!
Introduce yourself briefly in the message body. Check that Preview
is ticked, then you can review your message before posting.
Click Post. If your message is OK, then Post again
(otherwise, use your BACK button in your browser to go
back and edit your message)
- Your
message should appear (in italics in the left frame, because
it is new and has not been marked as read) If not, click REFRESH
in the blue menubar. You've posted your first message.
- A
quick explanation of the other buttons on the menubar:
CHAT is for live chat;
SEARCH enables you to search through message texts for
a word or phrase, or to search for a particular registered user;
PAGE allows you to send instant messages to any other
user SO LONG AS THEY ARE currently logged in;
MORE allows access to further commands: and
LOGOFF takes you out of WebBoard and back to the trAce
main site
Thanks
for visiting. Come back again soon!
If
you need help: in WebBoard click HELP on the blue menubar.
For more help using WebBoard, or the trAce site, or for any other
queries, you can ask our Volunteer
Mentors, via a message at WebBoard or by personal email.
To
cancel your subscription to WebBoard, simply send an email to
trace@ntu.ac.uk with "Leave WebBoard"
in the subject line, and we will delete your details.
Further
Tutorials
How
to use Chat
How
to participate via email
How
to include hyperlinks in your posts
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