Instructions Helpful Hints For Running Your Community Smoothly
DreamComm has been setup so that you have very little to worry about. However some explanation is needed to help guide you through running your community. Below are tips and ideas that should help you understand and run your community:
WELCOME MESSAGE
The welcome message you create in the admin program is the text that will greet users when they first come to the community homepage. Thus, it should greet potential new users, give information as to what the community offers, why users should join, how users can join (a link will automatically be setup to send them to the sign up page), and any rules that your community has.
CREATING USERS
There are three ways to create users. Below are descriptions of each method as well as the possible benefits of each:
Automatic - This method allows users to create their own usernames and passwords. They can simply go to the site, complete a form (with fields supplied by you in the admin) and they then have access to upload files to their site. When they sign up, an email is sent to you with all of the information they submitted, including their new username and password. It is difficult to charge users if they sign up this way, but you can make money by selling advertising on their site (details below).
Access Numbers - This method allows you to create access numbers which you can then sell or give to potential users. Once users have their access numbers, they go to the site, enter their access number, as well as complete a form (with fields supplied by you in the admin) and they then have access to upload files to their site. When they sign up, an email is sent to you with all of the information they submitted, including their new username and password. You can make money by charging them for access numbers as well as advertising on their site (details below).
Administration - This method allows only you to create users. Using the admin function, you can create usernames and passwords. Only then do users have access to upload files to their site. When you create a user, an email is sent to you with their new username and password. You can make money by charging them for the usernames/passwords as well as advertising on their site (details below).
ADVERTISING
You can use DreamComm to sell advertising. If you choose the "advertise" option, every file uploaded with an .html or .htm ending will have a popup window added to it. This popup window will contain the HTML page that you create in the admin program. There are two very important things you need to know about creating this page:
You need to make this a complete HTML page. This means you need to use <html> tags, <body> tags, and any other HTML code needed to make a COMPLETE page.
Assuming you are putting link(s) on this page, you need to use the target="_ " tag to send those who click on the link to a new page. For example, if you wanted to link to http://dreamcatchersweb.com/dreamcomm, you would need to use the following tag:
