Premium Student Members - Submissions Help

Submitted by yyh_staff on Wed, 2006-12-06 13:33.

We thank you greatly for your support and have compiled the following instructions to help you get the most out of your premium student membership. As stated earlier, it may take up to 5 business days after payment for your account to be upgraded to a premium membership. Once you receive notice that your account has been upgraded, you can start contributing to our site.

You may want to open a printer-friendly version of this page and print out these instructions.

Note: To perform any of the following tasks, you must login first (if you haven't already).

[· Uploading a Picture and Enabling Email Contact ·]
You can access your account details by clicking on the "my account" link on the right side bar below your username. Or by clicking here.

To change basic details about your account, click on the "edit" tab.

Under "Picture" you can browse to a picture and upload it to be shown on your user profile.

Under "Contact Settings" you should (strongly recommended) enable the personal contact form. This will allow visitors to our site to contact you via our site.

You can also change your password, set your timezone and change your location/interest information that you filled in when you registered by clicking on the "My Location and Interest Level" tab along the top (below the edit tab).
[· Submitting a full-length article to our site ·]
To start submitting content, you can click on the "create content" link on the right side bar below your username. Or by clicking here.

Click on the "student article" link. Here you can enter a full-length article including attached documents (pdf's, powerpoint slides, images, etc.). In order for your article to appear in the correct sections of our site, please choose the appropriate grouping from the drop-down box. "General-*" articles are those of interest to the majority of our readers and "Theory-*" are those which may require specialized knowledge - you can decide what is best.
[· Submitting Forum Postings ·]
Our forum is accessible by clicking on the "forums" link along the top menu, or by clicking here. To post a new topic, click on "Post New Forum Topic" and choose the appropriate forum to post within. To reply or comment to another forum posting, click on "add new comment" at the bottom of the original posting, or "reply" at the bottom of follow up posts by other users.