I'm New, Now What?
Instructions for First Time Visitors
If you are new to the website
COMMUNICATING WITH CLASSMATES
To contact a fellow classmate, you may simply use the e-mail option at the bottom of each Classmate's Profile page. This feature will allow open communication between Classmates, while protecting your personal information. If you wish to share your e-mail address or other personal information within a message written on our site, the site will not block you from doing so. (you may have encounted this problem if you have tried to use Classmates.com)
ADDING PICTURES TO YOUR PROFILE
Your high school yearbook picture has been already been added for you. If you find it is not correct, or you would prefer another picture, please contact us. Adding current pictures is not a requirement to participate on the site, but it certainly is a nice way to get to know people again. We've had reports of classmates who were routinely running into each other without knowing it, because...well....we've all changed a little in 45 years!
TO ADD PICTURES
- On the homepage, locate the links on the left side under "MEMBER FUNCTIONS".
- Click on the link: Edit/Upload Photos.
- The Photo page will appear and you’ll see a gray box titled: Upload New photo. Click on this box
- On the Add Photo page you will find the basic instructions for uploading your photos. There are 3 places on this page to make entries.
- Sort: The sort number controls the order in which photos display on your page. By default your pictures will appear in the order you entered them, so this isn’t important for your first picture. But later if you want picture #5 to appear as #1, you will have to change the sort numbers on your pictures.
- Caption: Caption is the description you write for your picture.
- Browse: Use this to find the picture on your computer. Clicking "browse" will open a window where you will be able to see a list of the folders on your computer. Locate the folder that holds your picture. For most classmates this will be the My Pictures folder located in the My Documents folder.
- Select the picture you want to upload by clicking on it once, and then click Open at the bottom of the box.
- Now you will be taken back to the Add Photo page and in the Upload Photo box you will see the path to your picture.
- Enter the Caption for your picture in the box.
- Click the SAVE CHANGES button.
- To see your picture, go to your Profile page and look for your picture and caption.
MANAGING MUSIC
If you'd like to hear music of our "day," click on the Our Music link to the left.
To switch to a new song, just click on it. To rearrange the songs, click on the "shuffle" button in the upper right hand corner.
There is no way to turn off the music in the "In Memory" section other than turning off the volume on your computer.
If you are having trouble with music anywhere on the site, please contact us.
If there is a specific song you would like to hear on the player, we'll do our best to add it for you. The site that provides our player doesn't have all songs; notably, many Beatle's songs seem to be missing. Just send the name of the song, and the artist you'd like to hear performing it; if it's available it will be added.
MESSAGE FORUM
This is a page where all members can read messages to and from other classmates.
USER FORUM
Anyone can start a forum discussion on this page. Topics are unlimited! This is a live discussion board.
LIVE CHAT
Real-time chat with other classmates through this feature. Note: the other classmate needs to be on this page to participate.