Why Join CFC_Experimental?

Hello Fellow Founders,

As most of you know, the first part of the Yahoo Groups merger has taken place. For those of you who also own an eGroup list, I am sure this has kept you busy. Based on the questions we have received here in CFC and in other places, we are in for a busy time in a few months when Yahoo Clubs change over. Many of your club members will be looking for you to have all the answers on the new Groups. I urge you to keep on top of the changes and to try to get as familiar as possible with the ins and outs of the new beta Groups as possible.

We have set up an experimental group that you can join. We will make you a moderator (co-founder) with all the powers of an owner. You will be able to play with features, try polls, upload files, change colour, and experiment with other features without worry about making mistakes. Here, you can get the hands-on experience you will need. You can find the club at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CFC_EXPERIMENTAL. And should you require additional merger information, you will find an FAQ site at http://www.wins.ch/valerie/yahooclubs/index2.html.

Both Yahoo and eGroups have formed Groups where you can join and submit your concerns/questions/praises. You can look thru their FAQ pages and read past messages to find some of your questions and answers already posted. You can find Yahoo's Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yahooclubs and eGroups group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Merger. Please be aware that these Groups are still in beta form and there are still things to be added.

Thank you
NOWAYWINS
(CFC Co-Founder)
:-)>

Let me add this small note. It isn't just CFC saying that you had better become familiar with the new interface before you and your members have to deal with it. Other clubs are saying it as well including the big top five founder clubs. Clubs Foundation Room, for instance, announced the opening of their own experimental group site, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/clubs_foundation_room on January 31st. While we haven't had a chance to explore what they are doing, we do consider this news an indicator how universally important founder clubs feel being prepared is. Don't wait until the interface has been activated. --AngelPie_Mouse

Customizing Text

One of the features we will be acquiring once the merged product is launched, and already available in the new Yahoo! Groups, is the ability to use HTML code with the Owners/Founders Message. This feature allows you to considerably customize your page, but like any tool, you have to know how to use it. In this review, we are going to look at text settings.

Most HTML commands come as a set or pair of tags--an on and an off (the command with a slash. Please remember that whatever you turn on, you should turn off, or it can affect text elsewhere; sometimes with unhappy results.

Some of the simplest and easiest tag commands you can use will manipulate the text as: bold (<b>, </b>); strong (<strong>, </strong>); italic (<i>, </i>); emphasis (<em>, </em>); big (<big>, </big>); small (<small>, </small>); _subcript (_,);^supercript (^,); and blink (<blink>, </blink>).

While some of these commands may seem redundant, it should be appreciated that they represent various versions of HTML code generally compiled across the generations to work with all browsers. The subscript and supercript commands are for scientific or other documentary notation. And lastly a word of warning about the blink command. Many people find blinking text extremely annoying. Please use it sparingly if at all.

Big and small are two ways to vary text size from the default setting. However, there are other methods of text size variation, most involving the use of the tag command <font size=" "> and it's off switch </font>. Everything between these switches will be rendered according to the on command. Below are a few.

font size=1, font size=2, font size=3, font size=4, font size=5, font size=6, font size=7 (range 1 to 7)
font size=+1, font size=+2, font size=+3, font size=+4 (range 1 to 4)
font size=-1, font size=-2 (range 1 to 2)

The exception to the font size rule above are the title header fonts which decrease in size from 1 to 6. They also cause the text between them to appear in bold and return a line break when the off switch is encountered.
<h1> = h1, <h2> = h2, <h3> = h3, <h4> = h4, <h5> = h5, <h6> = h6

There will be some variation in size, too, depending on the font face chosen. The font face represents the style of the type: plain, serriffed, cursive, script, etc. The first rule of setting text style is that the font face must be accessible on the viewing computer or the text will default to those settings made on the individual computer. For most people, the default will be to either Arial or MS Sans Serif, which are both considered Western fonts. However, there are some twenty-four (24) fonts that do come standard with most Windows applications, imparticular Windows 98, which will be browser accessible. Choosing one of these will add versatility to your display.

Font Name

Arial (arial)
Calisto MT (calisto mt)
Comic Sans MS (comic sans ms)
Copperplate Gothic Bold (copperplate gothic bold)
Copperplate Gothic Light (copperplate gothic light)
Courier (courier)
Courier New (courier new)
Impact (impact)
Lucida Console (lucida console)
Lucida Handwriting (lucida handwriting)
Lucida Sans (lucida sans)
Lucida Sans Unicode (lucida sans unicode)
Marlett (marlett)
Matisse ITC (matisse itc)
MS Sans Serif (ms sans serif)
MS Serif (ms serif)
OCR A Extended (ocr a extended)
Small Fonts (small fonts)
Symbol (symbol)
Tahoma (tahoma)
Tempus Sans ITC (tempus sans itc)
Times New Roman (times new roman)
Westminster (westminster)

The stand alone command for altering the font face or font used is <font face="font name">. In addition, you can develop a font set for use in your club, which members may share by downloading from your club files.

Last but not least, you can vary the color of the text by either designating an HTML hexidecimal code or, in many instances, color name, e.g.: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Purple, Cyan, Violet, Maroon, Orange, Pink, Brown, Lime, Dark Blue, Magenta, Tan, Gray, etc.

A sample font definition might read <font face="matisse itc" size=2 color="darkblue"> your text</font> which would show... your text

We hope you have fun with these few notes on customizing your text in your message and we invite you to save this article for future use.

Correcting Your E-Mail Address

Many of us change our primary e-mail addresses, forgetting to update our Yahoo! IDs. The wrong address can cause e-mail sent to us to bounce back to the sender, usually only inconveniencing them although we lose as well because we often fail to receive correspondence in a timely manner. However, as we move to a more e-mail oriented system of doing things, having the correct address associated with our IDs will become critical. In the new system, bounceback no longer goes to the sender but to a bot which places your membership in a pending file to be tested for viability. If your address fails, you are deleted. If you are the single owner of a group, your group may be deleted also. It is imperative, therefore, that you make sure that your address is correct.

How do you correct your e-mail address? There are several methods of accessing the information area to change your primary and your alternative e-mail addresses. I list three below. All three will take you to the same page "Edit Member Information for: [your ID name]."

Access Method 1:

Go to the URL: http://edit.yahoo.com/config/eval_profile?.done=http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/&.intl=us

Enter your Member ID name and password, if requested.

You are now on a page entitled: "Edit Public Profile for: [your ID name]" Scroll to the Email Address: and click the (Change) link. This will take you to your account information area.

Once on the page "Review My Account Information," scroll to the line MEMBER INFORMATION and click the EDIT button.

See Editing section below.

Access Method 2:

Go to the URL: http://clubs.yahoo.com

On the top line of the page to the right of the Yahoo! logo are the links: Yahoo! - Account Info - Help - Sign Out Click the Account Info link and, if required, enter your password.

See Editing section below.

Access Method 3:

Go to the URL: http://profile.yahoo.com/[your ID name]

Immediately below title which reads: "[your ID name]'s profile" is a link: Edit Profile Information Click it. (Note: if you haven't verified your acceptance of the Yahoo! TOS lately, it may take you to the TOS first, requiring you to accept and then repeat this step.) You are now on a page entitled: "Edit Public Profile for: [your ID name]" Scroll to the Email Address: and click the (Change) link. This will take you to your account information area.

Editing. Once on the page "Edit Member Information for: [your ID name]," scroll to the line Email Information and enter your new address as Alternative Email 1 (a new line will appear for each address you enter).

When you click the Save Changes button, it will take you to a page labelled "Review My Account Information" as in method 1 above. On the right hand side is a grey shaded area with several links. Click the Edit/Create Profile link, select the ID profile you wish to change (this is merely to verify that the change you entered has occurred).

That's it!

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