Basic Information about using Hutworld

Visitors of Hutworld
Visitors to the site may take advantage of the use of the Open Project Directory, which is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited Web directory. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. They may also view any published web sites from our community of members. (See Member Pages)

Free e-mail and web space
Anyone with access to the Internet may have a free e-mail address and web site at Hutworld. E-mail accounts are limited to 300 stored messages or 5 MB of space on our server. More space is available at $5.00/mo or $60/yr. Web sites are limited to 15 pages. Additional pages are available in blocks of 15 for $5.00/mo or $60/yr. All accounts must abide by our Acceptable Use Policy.

Hutworld Membership
Becoming a member of Hutworld is easy and free. Just fill out the on-line form and click submit. Instantly a new e-mail address and blank web page is created at hutworld.com. All members must abide by our Acceptable Use Policy. (Sign up now.)

Member e-mail (My Mail)
When you click on My Mail you will go to a login screen where you will need to enter your username and password (which you created when you first signed up for membership). Once successfully logged in you will be redirected to your e-mail. You will see the various mailboxes including you main mailbox and how many messages are in each mailbox. You will also see a menu bar where you can compose a new message, search, change your personal account options (including preferences), view e-mail help, and log out of your email. When you log out you will be redirected to Hutworld's homepage.

Member Web Sites (My World)
Using a combination of templates and content widgets generates the member pages at Hutworld. When you create a new page, you can select a template that will determine the look and feel of your web page. Once the page is created, you can add content to it by selecting a type of content widget from the 'Tasks' menu.

When you click on My World you will go to a login screen where you will need to enter your username and password (which you created when you first signed up for membership). Once successfully logged in you will be redirected to your homepage. As soon as you access your first page (the one created when you sign-up for an account), you will see the following greeting:

Welcome to your new Home Page at Hutworld!
This message is only visible to you and will disappear as soon as you add some content to the page. Any visitors to this page will see a blank (under construction) page until the content is made visible. To add content, click on the Tasks menu in the management (or edit) bar and choose a content widget from the 'Add Content' section. You can create articles, calendars, image galleries and a variety of other content types. For more information about how to build your site, click help on Hutworld's main menu bar. For more detail about how each widget operates, click help on the orange management bar.

You will notice an orange management (or edit) bar (some browsers may not show the orange color) across the top of the page that states whether you are previewing or live, your username and what page you are viewing. This edit bar will also contain a Tasks Menu, which is where you choose the various editing tasks. This is where you begin to add content to your web site by using widgets.

Each content type or widget is designed to allow you create web pages without having to be familiar with the complexities of HTML. You just fill out the form and save or commit the changes. If you want a more complex design and you have HTML knowledge, there is a raw_html widget that allows you to paste html into the page from another program.

Very Important! Please note: When you add content blocks or edit them, you see the changes while you are in preview mode. You will see a choice to 'commit' or 'cancel your changes'. This allows you to preview it before publishing it to the world. To toggle between the published (live) version and your working (preview) version of your page, use the task menu to select queued or live content. If you do not like the changes, choose cancel changes, if you approve of the changes, click commit and your changes will be live.

You may also choose to add additional pages to your site by choosing new page under the Tasks menu. Any new page you create will appear in the button bar of the current page. You fill in the on-screen form to set the title and button name for your new page. When you are finished, the page will be created and your web browser will go to your new page to allow you to start adding content.

If you are having trouble, you can go to Help in the management bar where our Help Guide describes in detail, the creation of pages.

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