Additional perks available to PAID MEMBERS:
IN-ROOM Full Configuration:
- Switch Profile: As long as you logged in using the member login on the entry page of each room, you can now configure into any saved profile you have without leaving the room. This comes in handy for Site Moderators who are required to moderate in a separate personna. This can be utilized by those playing numerous characters in rooms that allow such. No more double or triple browsing! Just config to swap profiles to swap to another character.
- PREFERENCES:
- Good afternoon and welcome _______: You can change your login/username here and then click 'Change Name' - Clicking on 'Open Webmail' takes you to your PoD email account inbox. **NEW EMAIL: To log in you MUST use your full member email account. IE: USERNAME@portalofdreams.com and then your account password.
- Membership password ________: You can change your password here and then click on 'Change Password'
- Registered Name _______: You can change your uniquely registered and safeguarded onsite name here and then click on 'Set Reg Name'. **NOTE** If you are a mod, room leader or staff member, you MUST have something in this field.
- Show Profile: Answer Yes if you wish your profile** available to the public on this Profile Page. Answer No if you don't wish your profile seen.
- Character Profile Editor: (Not to be confused with your personal profile mentioned above - this is to create CHARACTER profiles and store tags for each one!)
--- Choose 'New Profile' and click on 'Get' in order to make a NEW profile
--- Character Profile Name: Enter a Name to show on the listing for this profile
--- Screen Name: Enter your codes / tag string here
--- Entrance Message: Enter a message you wish to enter all rooms with or leave this blank and use the defaults for each room
--- Prev Messages: Enter a number from 5-99 for how many backposts you wish to see upon entering a room
--- No Pics: Answer Yes if you wish to disable pictures. Answer No if you wish to see pictures and avatars.
--- Verbose: Answer Yes if you wish a horizontal line between posts. Answer No if you don't.
--- Autoscroll: Answer Yes if you wish the room to scroll on its own. Answer No if you wish to manually scroll through postings.
--- CLICK on 'SAVE'
--- To USE these character profiles, log into your membership by using the login area on the right hand side of any/all room entry boxes. Once you log in there, you will be able to select from your saved Character Profiles and enter the room! No more looking for tags, or opening a wordpad or having to create new ones if you forgot to save them somewhere! Create yours today!
- Create Folders and Subfolders by entering a name in the box to the left of 'Add Folder' and then click on 'Add Folder'.
- Delete Folders by clicking on the Trash Can next to the folder name. **NOTE** Folder must be empty!
- UPLOAD:
--- Select which folder from the left side column
--- Click on 'Browse' and then find what you wish to upload and enter it into the box then click on 'Upload'
--- OR click on the icon next to the 'upload' button to upload MULTIPLE items and then select 2-9 for the number of items and repeat the process of browsing for each one, and then clicking on 'Upload'
- ITEMS already in folders/uploaded:
--- Five actions are available for each item: Delete, Rename, Move, Edit text, Edit Html. Only those you can do for each file will be clickable. IE - You cannot click to edit Html on a graphic.
--- MASS delete is available by checkmarking more than one item and scrolling to the bottom of the listing and clicking on 'Mass Delete'.
--- Clicking on the Name of the item will bring it up in a new window.
- This is where you fill out the information that will be posted and available to public that you wish to share about yourself. These profiles are shown on this Profile Page.
Temporary Rooms: ALL members have the ability to create temporary rooms. These rooms disappear after 15 minutes of non-use.
--- Enter the Name you wish for the room.
--- Enter the password to enter the room.
--- After creating the room, click in 'Click here to enter'
--- Click on the Name of the room
------ At this point, if sharing the room with someone else, you can copy and paste the URL from your browser to them.
--- Enter the room (don't forget the password!)
------ If you forgot to give the direct URL to your friends, don't fret! Through our LINKS page (Important Site Rules & Information), there is an option for 'Member Temp Rooms', which will show a list of all currently available Temp rooms that can be entered with the correct passwords, and who is in them. The direct link to see this listing is HERE.
(If you have a PRIVATE ROOM, then you have the following options next):
--- PRIVATE ROOM SETTINGS:
------ Make room Invisible/Visible: Through our LINKS page (Important Site Rules & Information), there is an option for 'Member Private Rooms' that shows a listing of all our private rooms. You can opt to be or not to be shown on THIS PAGE. Click on Invisible to have it removed from that listing. Click then on Visible to have it listed again.
------ Below that is a place to click on 'This is a link to your room' so that you can find the URL to your private room if you make it invisible.
------ Active? This should say Yes. If it says No, your room is not able to be used. You may change it from Yes to No and then No to Yes at any time here! Note that by doing so, you eliminate and erase any and all history in your private room and it cannot be retrieved.
------ Password for ________: This is where you can change the password required for entering your private room at any time and then click on 'Change Password'.
--- ENTRY PAGE: ------ This is where you put the actual HTML coding of your entry page.
------ Once you have the coding for your page, you MUST add the $roomEntry$ command and insert our PoD entry box. Copying this code by source or any other method other than using the $roomEntry$ command will disable certain member functions such as their ability to use preset Profiles. *NOTE* that the r is NOT capitalized but the E is!
------ Make any changes, additions or deletions to your entry page here and then click on 'Update Entry'
--- PULLDOWNS:
------ Do NOT make any changes to the first one, the 'says to' pulldown. Note that it ends in a '1' Note that it MUST also be and remain the FIRST pulldown. It CANNOT be moved.
------ If making changes to the Privately Whispers pulldown, note that it MUST end in a '2'
------ All other pulldowns should not have a number at the end of them**.
------ Coding Broken Down:
--------- All words before the first | is what shows in the pulldown dropdown menu/list inside the room.
--------- $MOOD$ command allows the mood the chatter selects to use be displayed with their posts.
--------- $USER$ command allows the person typing the post to be displayed (IE - the character that is posting is the 'user')
--------- $WHOTO$ command allows the post to display who the user is talking to (IE - the other person selected, that the post is being directed to, from those in the dropdown menu of users playing in the room)
--------- $SAYS$ command allows what is typed into the Message box inside the room as the post, to be posted in the room (IE - this is what shows the posts we make)
--------- The final | tells the programming that is the end of this pulldown.
--------- All normal HTML coding can be used in creating pulldowns such as font colors, font sizes, font faces, centering, italics, bold and line breaks. **NOTE** ALL commands MUST be closed off or they will carry over into the user's posts in the room. (IE - if you use an italics command < i > and do not use an end to the italics command < /i >, then when using that pulldown, everyone's posts will be in italics).
------ Make any additions/changes/deletions and then click on 'Update PDs'
--- ENCOUNTERS:
--- These are random messages that will display in the room every 40 posts. That is a set number of post counts that cannot be changed.
------ Code them in normal HTML but ensure that you close out every command. (IE - if you use an italics command < i > and do not use an end to the italics command < /i >, then when that posts in the room it has a chance to affect the next poster's post).
------ Make any additions/changes/deletions and then click on 'Update Encounters'
--- SCREEN NAME:
------ This is where you decide the default name for people to enter your room with (IE - 'Visitor' or 'Nameless Idiot')
------ Do not use more than a 20 or so characters and no quotation marks!
------ Type in your chosen default name for people entering the room anonymously and click on 'Update'
--- SINGLE ENTRY:
------ This is where you put in a default entry message for your room (IE - Enters into the area... )
------ This is the option you choose if you want the 'Enter Msg' box on your entry page to remain open to change by the chatters entering your room.
------ Do not use quotation marks.
------ Type in your chosen message to be displayed by people entering the room and click on 'Update Single'
--- MULTIPLE ENTRY:
------ This is where you insert information for having more than one entry. Its often referred to as 'Forced Entries' into rooms, and displays as a drop down menu on your entry page where people will select which entry to use upon coming into the room.
--------- This is the option you choose if you want to FORCE an entry to be displayed of your choosing, not allowing the chatter to type in their own entry post when coming into a room.
------ 'Words in the pull down'
--------- This is what will be displayed in the dropdown menu from your entry page for chatters to choose from. (IE - usually it will be similar to these options: Visitor, Member, Slave, Free,)
--------- No coding or quotation marks and this should be 20 characters or less.
------ 'Message that is sent to the room'
--------- This is the entry message that will post in the room when selected. (IE - if this is for a Visitor option, it might say... Is coming in to see what this place is about.... If this is for a Member option, it might say.... Is somewhere in their home... )
--------- No coding or quotation marks.
------ You make these FORCED entries one at a time, and then click on 'Create'. It will put each one you create in the proper format in the box and once you have 2 or more that you are satisfied with, click on 'Update Multiple' and in a few moments you will be able to see and utilize the dropdown menu for different entries into your room.