New Member Help Thread

[Encrypted]

I've been receiving numerous PM's lately asking how to use certain features of the site/forum. You may refer to this thread in the future when you have any questions about certain features/functionality on YoungEntrepreneur.


Setting Up Your Signature
Setting up a forum signature is very easy to do. First, go to the User Control Panel. You can control just about anything in here. Then, read through the links on the navigation bar to the left and select Edit Signature under "Settings and Options". Create your signature and click save once you are done.

Managing Your Thread Subscriptions
Editing your thread subscriptions is very easy to do. First, go to the User Control Panel. You can control just about anything in here. Then, read through the links on the navigation bar to the left and select Edit Options under "Settings and Options". In the second table from the top, under "Messaging & Notification", you will see an option to edit your subscriptions called "Default Thread Subscription Mode". Here you can change your subscription settings. If you want to view or delete your subscriptions, you can go to the List Subscriptions page. Be sure to save your settings after you edit them.

Mark Posts As Read
If you would like to mark all of the current "unread posts" as read, so they are no longer in the New Posts, simply click the link on the bottom of the Forum Index that says Mark Forums Read

Adding An Avatar
An avatar is an icon or picture that represents you when you make a new post. To add an Avatar to your posts, go to the User Control Panel and under "Settings and Options" select Edit Avatar. From here, you can upload your own avatar or select one from the default avatars provided by YoungEntrepreneur.

I will add more topics to this thread as often as possible, depending on how much free time I have available.

[BizGuy]

Chris,

Great post! I'm sure a lot of the new members will really appreciate you taking the time to put this quick reference thread together.

Also, they are able to go to our Forum Tour video and info page here:

Forum Tour – Young Entrepreneur – Small Business & Entrepreneur Community

for general forum usage visit this link:

Young Entrepreneur Forums - FAQ: Board FAQ

for Profile Features go here:

Young Entrepreneur Forums - FAQ: User Profile Features

for further info on reading and posting messages, go here:

Young Entrepreneur Forums - FAQ: Reading and Posting Messages

Hope that helps!

[Alexishost]

This post will be alot of helpful to all member.

[haroldjames808]

Hello Encrypted,
Same as others felt in seeing your thread title, I am also thankful because you post this very helpful topic.
Keep up the good work!
Cheers,

[Alexishost]

Adding avatar.
You may be interested in adding your avatar, small picture representing you.
When I first join, Log in to User Control Panel

click edit avatar under "Settings and Options"
You can use predifined avatar, or use your own.
Option 1 - Enter the URL to the Image on Another Website
or Option 2 - Upload Image From Your Computer

click preview, then you get your own brand new avatar.

Enjoy!

[mgstudio99]

very useful post you have here for the new members.

[faisallatif]

Hello Encrypted,
This is a great post,Encrypted you are done a great job it's really helpful. thanks.

[islabucasgrande]

Hello Encrypted,

I hope we can share ideas with you as we move from one thread to the next. I know you will enjoy your stay here as much as we are beginning to enjoy how things just went so far.

[brooksbrizendine]

This was fantastic information, thank you so much for posting this! Anyone have thoughts on the significance of having an avatar? Do you think they really make a difference?

[noob]

I can't seem to find the feedback and suggestion post but is it possible to add a "Mark All As Read" feature, I think someone else suggested this previously. It's really annoying to go to the "new posts" link only to find no new updates and the forum sometimes thinking you haven't read some of the posts and reposting them as new.

[Encrypted]

I can't seem to find the feedback and suggestion post but is it possible to add a "Mark All As Read" feature, I think someone else suggested this previously. It's really annoying to go to the "new posts" link only to find no new updates and the forum sometimes thinking you haven't read some of the posts and reposting them as new.

It already exists on the bottom of the forum index.

http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/for...hp?do=markread

[noob]

The option isn't available under new posts, only in individual forum indexes. The problem as previously mentioned is that the forum has a bug where it'll display threads that I've already opened and sometimes mark them as new even after I refresh the "new posts" section.

[Encrypted]

The option isn't available under new posts, only in individual forum indexes. The problem as previously mentioned is that the forum has a bug where it'll display threads that I've already opened and sometimes mark them as new even after I refresh the "new posts" section.

I know this is a bit late, I haven't been very active on the forum lately due to the launch of my new business. However, if this is still a problem, I recommend reporting it to Garyrae in this thread. He is the site developer and I'm sure he can work to solve the issue.

[Anderson23]

I tried to add my company website under settings, signature, but I received an invalid navigation error, what does that mean ?

[Mega B]

@Anderson23 it means that you have to have a minimum of 10 posts before you can add a link to either a post or a signature,this means we can see who is spamming the forum to be able to post a link and if we see people are spamming we take steps to rectify it.