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The easy and quick way to learn how to use the site is to watch our demo videos:
1. Video Getting Started
2. Video Building Your Website


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The easy and quick way to learn how to use the site is to watch our demo videos:
1. Getting Started
2. Building Your Website

A brief intro into the features of 2wentysworld. We will expand it if confusion demands. :-)

Signup

The first thing to do. Choose a username. It can only use numbers or letters, no spaces. Also this name cannot be changed so make sure you like it. The email address must be real as we will send notifications to that address.

Home

The doorway into 2wentysworld.

2wentys Nerd.

The latest news and updates from our 2wentys Nerd. Scary so pay attention!

Status

The status tool is for you to tell everyone about your latest thing; where you're at, what you're doing or whatever.

To change your status message, change the text in the 'My Status' bar to whatever you want. 100 letters or less please. Hit 'update status' and you now have a new status message.

Inbox

Your inbox. Here you can see what messages have been sent to you and get updates on any comments on your MySite. Click on each to read them. You can delete or reply from the reader page.

Friends Updates

Whenever ever one of your 2wentysworld friends posts a comment, changes their 'My Status' message or uploads a new picture you will know. Click on the link to visit their MySite. This does assume you've got some :-)

Who's Online

Who else is using 2wentysworld right now? This box will tell you. And if you both have clicked on the 'Start Chat' button you'll be able to type to each other live.

Most Viewed Profiles

The popular people; or at least those who look at their own sites a lot :-) Click a picture to visit their MySite.

Resort

This is the who, where, when page. Choose your Resort then use the tabs to check out the Guests, Reps, and Hangouts-Pads.

To see who else is on holiday with you enter a start and end date in the panel on the right.

Browse

Here you can find everyone. Click on a tab then sort by most popular, last logged-in or just totally random. Want to find someone with a particular tag? Either use the search box or choose a tag from the Tag Cloud. The larger words are more popular. Remember you can use the search tool right at the top of the website and let Google do the work.

Forum

Our forum is for when you want to have a conversation with more than just your online friends. Any member of the site can read it and join in.

When you click on the Forum tab you see a list of themes and the topics within those themes. Next to each topic you can see the number of conversations it has. Click on the topic that interests you. Now you see a list of conversations on that topic. Click on one and join in. Read through what people are saying (most recent talk at the bottom) then add your thoughts below that. Simple.

MySite

Everyone on 2wentysworld can build their own MySite.

The MySite builder is a simple and powerful way to express yourself. It lets you add text, upload pictures, embed videos and other multimedia, insert a comment box and setup an internal email tool.

With a bit of planning and design you can build an attractive and informative personal website.

The default MySite comes with 2 prebuilt pages that you can fill in. You can use these or make your own from scratch.

Make a new page

Click the 'Add Page' button to the right of the page tabs. You are prompted to enter a name for this new page.

A new MySite page has 4 empty sections. By clicking the buttons in each section you add tools in the order that you click them. Each section can have as many tools as you like. But each page can only have one Comment Tool and one Message Tool.

Archive Tool

The Archive tool lets you redesign your MySite and still keep the work you have done.

Click the 'Edit Page' button to see the layout of your current page. Scroll to the tool you wish to move and click on 'Archive Tool' at the bottom right of that tool. You are prompted to enter a name for this tool. Try to choose a name that reminds you of the tool's content as you can archive more than one at a time. Click 'Archive Now' to store the tool and remove it from the layout. Archive as many tools as necessary. To restore the archived tool, choose the appropriate page and layout box then click the 'Show Archive' button at the bottom left of that layout box. A list of archived content appears below the button. Click on 'Add' next to the tool that you want to restore.

Remember that tools are always placed at the bottom of a layout box so to create a particular order of tools in one box you may need to archive them all then restore them in the desired order.

Write-Up

This is the main method of adding content. Think of it as a mini wordprocessor.

With this tool you can:

  • Add a heading or footer to another tool. For instance if you want to introduce a video in the Media Tool place a Write-Up above or below it.
  • Add a block of text. Text can be cut and pasted into Write-Up.
  • Insert images from elsewhere on the web by using that images url. Easier than it sounds.
  • Insert hyperlinks from your content to either other parts of your own MySite or to anywhere on the web. Also easier than it sounds.
Picture

With the Picture Tool you can either add a single picture to your page or build a full gallery of images. Each image can be tagged to enable easy searching. Add as many images as you like but each image must be less than 700Kb in size.

Is your photo too big?

Try this:

ResizeMyPicture.com
  • Click on the button 'Browse' and find the photo you want to make smaller.
  • Next select the size you want. 600 pixels is good.
  • Then choose a picture quality. Anything above 50% is fine for most photos.
  • Hit 'Click here to resize'
  • You should now see your resized photo.
  • Click in the middle of the photo with the right hand mouse button and select 'save image as'. Type in a name for your photo and hit save.
  • You now have a resized photo ready to upload.
Media

This tool is fun. Much 'stuff' is available on the internet to be embedded in your MySite. For example, next to every video on YouTube is a line of code labeled 'Embed'. If you copy that code into the MediaTool you will see that YouTube video in your own MySite. Neat!

We've included some fun examples below. More are being invented all the time so search the web and see what you find. If it's a good one let us know about it!

Yuscano

This tool drops a YouTube video in your MultiMedia tool. Whats special is that you can choose a topic and it will show short clips of a selection of videos that match that topic. http://www.yuscano.com/myscano/

Well worth a try.

PkiPimp

Got a boring photo? Want to make it 'interesting'? Try PikiPimp. Upload a photo from your computer, Pimp it, then paste the code supplied into the multimedia tool. http://www.pikipimp.com/

Best for people shots.

Meez

You need to join. But I think it's worth it. Spend some time and build a Meez, animate it then choose a background. Export and drop the 'Link' code into the Multimedia tool. Thats it. http://www.meez.com/home.dm

The Comment Tool

A very popular feature.

On any page of your MySite you can add one comment tool. For instance if you have a Picture Gallery of your favourite photos why not place a comment tool directly under it and see what people say?

Or just use it as a chat board.

Up to you!

The Mail/Message Tool

Want to let your friends send a message just to you? Drop this on your page and they can. Once you've received a message you can reply directly to them.

Promote.

We like this idea. This card is made automatically from your username and user picture. You are stuck with the name you chose when you signed up but you can change your picture in the 'account' page.

If you have a blog somewhere or a MySpace or Bebo page etc, then by simply copying the code to the right of your card and pasting into the appropriate place on those sites you add the card there. Try it out by using the 'Media tool' in your 2wentys MySite.

My Account

Here you manage the details of your account.

If you want to change your picture this is the place. Delete the existing one and find something else on your computer to upload No more than 500Kb in size though.

Holidays

Enter the dates and location of your holiday here. It will help friends find you. You can add past, present and planned holidays.

User Details

It's all changeable. The most useful are the Tags. Choose them right and they can help you connect with people of similar interests.

Delete Account

If you really want to leave. Permanently. This is where you do it. Beware, it can't be reversed. And, as a side effect, your mouse finger falls off.

That's it. If you have any questions or problems send a message to admin.

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