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• Home - takes you back to the Blackpool4Me home page
• Contact B4Me - tells you how to contact the Blackpool4Me team
• Search B4Me - gives you three ways to find the information you want
• Help - takes you to this page 
• Accessibility - gives you information about how all members of the community can access Blackpool4Me
• BrowseB4Me - takes you to the channel directory, a list of subject categories included in Blackpool4Me. As you go through the directory, channels that belong to each category or sub-category are listed at the bottom of the page. The lists of latest pages, events and news are made up of pages from the channels that belong to a category/sub-category. To reach a channel click on its name in the list at the bottom of the page, or click on a page in the lists on the left hand side of the screen
• My Forums - takes you to the general forum where you can see postings from registered users of Blackpool4Me. Click on B4Me General Discussion to see the list of topics and polls (surveys) within the forum, then click on the title of a topic or poll that you want to look at. Registered users can add postings to this forum and other forums that will be available in the channels that make up Blackpool4Me
• Log In - where registered users can enter their username and password to reach their own personalised version of Blackpool4Me
• Log Out - users who are logged in can click here to return to the standard view of Blackpool4Me
• Register - takes you to the page where you can register for Blackpool4Me and gain access to additional features
• Your Details - where you can change your personal details or change your password
• Favourites - your list of favourite channels which delivers your personalised view of Blackpool4Me

Bottom Bar links

• If any items that appear cause offence, please click this link - takes you to a form that you can send to the Blackpool4Me team
• Terms and Conditions - which apply to your use of Blackpool4Me
• Privacy Policy - respecting your privacy as a user of Blackpool4Me
• Want a Channel? - describes what is involved in managing your own channel in Blackpool4Me, including a form to apply for one
  
  

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Blackpool4Me Homepage - guest user

On the right

• Contents - lists all the pages in the main Blackpool4Me channel. Click on the name of the page to view it.
• Features. You can view items on the Noticeboard but not add items to it. Click on the item to read more about it.

On the left

• Latest Pages - displays the latest pages from the channels within Blackpool4me as soon as they are published. Click on the name of the page to view it. Clicking on "more latest pages" will take you to a longer list. From there click on the title of a page to view it.
  
• What's On - displays the most recent events relating to the channels within Blackpool4me. Click on the name of the page to view it. Clicking on "more what's on" will take you to a longer list that gives you a summary of each event.  From there click on the title of the event to see more information about it.
  
• News - displays the latest news pages from the channels within Blackpool4me as soon as they are published. Click  on the name of the page to view it. Clicking on "more news" will take you to a longer list that includes a summary of the news item. From there click on the title of the news item to see the full story.

Blackpool4Me Homepage - registered user

Favourites

As a registered user you can build a homepage that reflects your interests, and easily keeps you in touch with what's going on in your favourite channels.

Click on the Add to My Channel Favourites option under Features
on the right hand side of the channel page. You can then choose to add to your list just that channel or all the channels in that category. Click Finished
to complete the list.

Clicking on Favourites in the top bar will take you to your list. You can then delete from it channels you are no longer interested in.

From now on when you log in the Latest Pages etc. from your favourites are shown in bold and marked with an F

Channel Features

As a registered user you can access any additional features that the channel manager has chosen to add to that channel, such as discussion forums or on-line surveys. Click on the name of the feature to find out more.

Channel pages

The centre panel on the screen shows a page from the channel you are visiting.

On the right

• Contents lists all the pages in this channel. Click on the name of the page to view it. Some pages may only be viewable by certain groups of users.
• Features 
• Contact Channel Manager - send an e-mail message to the manager of this channel
• Channel Noticeboard. You can view items on the Noticeboard but not add items to it. Click on the item to read more about it. Registered users will see the Add Item option.
• Search - gives you the option to search this channel or all of Blackpool4Me
• Add to my Channel Favourites - lets you add this channel or the category to which it belongs to your lists of favourite channels
• Join this channel - sends a message to the channel manager requesting "virtual" membership of this channel so that you can see private pages, join in discussion forums etc. 
• Discussion forums, User surveys etc will be displayed here if included by the channel manager. 

 VIEWING DOCUMENTS

Authors and editors of pages in the channels that make up Blackpool4Me are recommended to avoid attaching whole documents - which could be spreadsheets, powerpoint presentations, publisher files etc. as well as word documents - to their channel pages. However, there may be occasions when they would like to offer you the chance to view the original file.

You will normally be able to recognise these attachments as they will appear in channel pages with wording such as "Click here to see the full report". If you have on your computer programs like the ones with which these documents were created then you should be able to open and view them. If you do not, and you are having trouble opening the documents, the following guidelines may help you.

PDF documents

To access a PDF file, you need a piece of software called Adobe Reader. If you do not have it you can download Adobe Reader free of charge.

If you use screen reading software or other assistive technology, the Access Adobe site offers support and tools to help you access PDF documents. For more information visit the Adobe website.

Microsoft documents

To view these documents you can download  the Microsoft Word Viewer, or download the Microsoft Excel Viewer, or download the Microsoft  Powerpoint viewer, free of charge.