Anyone can view pogblog's Main Page and read all the articles & fables. Just clik more>> at the end of the excerpt.
To COMMENT as of September 28, 2005, just write your Comment in the box and type the tumbled letters into the Comments Verification Box & clik post. This will post an anonymous Comment. Tho of course you can sign your name or handle if you wish in your Comment. (If you want an easy clikkable automatic contact link, then create a Reader Account. Nice but not necessary now) .. ..
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(If you already know what you're doing, skip this and go to Create Reader Account or Subscribe to pogblog on upper right of Main Page.)
To Create Reader Account
The simplest thing is to just email pogblog@yahoo.com and we'll set you up with a reader account. Tell us a nickname (e.g. cedral755; iotasiotas; shamanofdroll; chancelucky)you'd like and the year of your birth is helpful, tho not necessary. We'll get you as near what you want as availability will allow. You can always change stuff later.
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If YOU want to do it yourself, here's the details:
Anyone can view pogblog's main page and read articles & fables etc, but to post comments, a reader must first Create Reader Account and/or Subscribe FREE.
If you're real beginner at this, you'd be best off to Copy the rest of this & Paste it into a Word Document so you can print it out & follow it step by step!
Very Detailed clik by clik instructions
to Create Reader Account &/or Subscribe so you can Comment on pogblog:
Dear wonderful pogblog Reader,
You can either Print out this email so you can refer to it or go back & forth between this email page & pogblog. This seems like a lot of words, but it's just a full explanation for folks who are unfamiliar with the tricks. It's very simple once you understand. The first time is complicated seeming, but then you know the tricks. If you're familiar with it, it takes 3 minutes; if not, it takes what it takes, but you're learning!
Proceed slowly and deliberately & this will work for you! (We want your Comments on pogblog! If these instructions don't work for you, email me again pogblog@yahoo.com)!
Read all of a step before you proceed. We recommend using noms de plume or fake names.
(All cliks are one-cliks unless indicated as 2Clik. The red will indicate that you do something.)
To Sign Up so you can Comment or Subscribe,
clik Create Reader Account on right upper side of pogblog's Main Page;
This takes you to
Account Creation & Subscription Options page
Down a bit below the little blue [Login] box, you'll see the following:
If you do not have an account, please create one now.
Clik on create one.
This brings up the Blogware User Signup page.
On the left you see Login Info
Fill in First Name
You must fill in a name here but it may be fake, though in a minute after you've clikked [Signup], you'll get the option of choosing what people can & cannot see. I use a fake name. (For example, Cement Cement for first & last name is ok, but you must make a note now or you’ll forget!!)
Fill in Last Name
You must fill in a name here but it may be (& should be) fake.
URL: is optional. IF you have a website or blog, you may enter your web or blog URL or unique address (pogblog's URL, for instance is http://pogblog.myblogsite.com/blog An URL is a formal unique Internet address.) If you don't have a website or blog, leave it blank.
Fill in Email
You must fill in a real email address that you can check, but it may be a free yahoo account you set up with fake names for web surfing — it doesn't have to be your main email account. You can create a yahoo!mail free account, for instance, that mirrors all the fake names you want to use here, but you would have to go set it up first so you know that yahoo will have the names available.
Timezone
Leave the Timezone as US/Pacific, or where ever you are. If you are in Australia or France, fix it accordingly. When you comment, this will allow your comment to show what time you posted your comment.
Agreement box
You must clik the little [box] next to I agree to and understand the user agreement. Clikking it puts a little black arrow in it. Myself I never read the agreements which are pages of gobbledegook. You have to agree to them though or you can't proceed. You've probably only agreed that it's ok for aliens to experiment on your first-born child, so so what. Life's too short to read this kind of fine print.
Signup box
You must clik the [Signup] box or it won't happen. Do check stuff before you clik Signup because that pretty much locks in some stuff.
After you clik Signup, a Blogware page will come up saying:
Signup Result
We have sent a confirmation email to xxxx@xxxx.com. Please confirm your signup request by following the instructions included in the email.
Thank you.
Go to your email account
In your email Inbox, you'll see a message from newusersignup@blogware.com with a Subject line saying Signup Confirmation for www.blogware.com
Clik on that message to open it.
In the middle of the text, you'll see a blue line or link.
Clik the blue link.
In about 30 seconds, you will be whisked to your Blogware Control Panel/Address Book/ & My Profile page
It will say that Your account has been confirmed — you are now logged in.
This means you are logged in to the Blogware My Profile page for the last step.
(Decide whether it's OK for people to email you from pogblog. If yes, go down under Account Info & across from that in the Display Staus column, clik the little dropdown & change it from Friends Only to Public. (You can always decide to do this later. SAVE the Welcome to Blogware email you'll get in your email system because it has the link so you can go fuss with your Profile later if you want.)
Clik [Save Changes]
Do NOTHING more now except [LOGOUT] in upper righthand corner of that Blogware My Profile page. Do not put in a new password. You can add lots of stuff later if you want to get into it, but for now you can just log out.
Go back to pogblog.myblogsite.com & on the upper right area where it says Login, type your shiny new username & password (which will look like big black dots)and clik the [Login] box and then you can clik on Comment by any article and proceed!
Congratulations! Well done!
(Remember if you still have questions about how to do this, just email pogblog@yahoo.com. We want this to work for you!)
Fill in Username
(The name — all one word & lowercase — you'll use for Display Name on the right in a moment will be fine.) This can and usually is a fake name that you use to comment on pogblog or any blog in the future if you like. You can be guinevere or kingarthur if you like (tho Blogware may refuse your first few choices because someone else out here in cyberland already has it. If you really love a name or 'handle,' you can try doing birdsnest343 & see if adding the numbers lets you have it. You'll be amazed at what people have already taken. You try cateyelashes & it refuses it! Persevere. It seems annoying at first, but becomes a game to outwit the darn thing.
Fill in Password
You may type in any password of at least 6 letters & numbers — you can do all letters (I do), but I don't think you can do all numbers — again unless someone else has it. (If either your name or password are too long, you may find it annoying over time as you sign in — more to type.) When you type, you will see only big black dots, not the password you chose — this is the convention to protect you from someone looking over your shoulder and 'eavesdropping' on your password.) I recommend a new password that you use for this web & blog stuff, not your main daily password. But DO jot it down right now so you can remember!
Fill in Confirm [You're confirming the Password.]
Re-type the password you just typed above. This is so you know you typed in the right thing the first time since you can't actually see it in either place!
Now on your right, you see Contact Info
Fill in Display Name
This is the name people will see on your comment. It can be the same fake name you put in Username to the left.(Having them the same is less to keep straight.) You are welcome to use your real name if you like in either place, but do not feel it's dishonest or deceptive to make up a name — it's part of the convention, part of the cyber-playfulness that's out here.
Fill in First Name
You must fill in a name here but it may be fake, though in a minute after you've clikked [Signup], you'll get the option of choosing what people can & cannot see. I use a fake name. (For example, Cement Cement for first & last name is ok, but you must make a note now or you’ll forget!!)
Fill in Last Name
You must fill in a name here but it may be (& should be) fake.
URL: is optional. IF you have a website or blog, you may enter your web or blog URL or unique address (pogblog's URL, for instance is http://pogblog.myblogsite.com/blog An URL is a formal unique Internet address.) If you don't have a website or blog, leave it blank.
Fill in Email
You must fill in a real email address that you can check, but it may be a free yahoo account you set up with fake names for web surfing — it doesn't have to be your main email account. You can create a yahoo!mail free account, for instance, that mirrors all the fake names you want to use here, but you would have to go set it up first so you know that yahoo will have the names available.
Timezone
Leave the Timezone as US/Pacific, or where ever you are. If you are in Australia or France, fix it accordingly. When you comment, this will allow your comment to show what time you posted your comment.
Agreement box
You must clik the little [box] next to I agree to and understand the user agreement. Clikking it puts a little black arrow in it. Myself I never read the agreements which are pages of gobbledegook. You have to agree to them though or you can't proceed. You've probably only agreed that it's ok for aliens to experiment on your first-born child, so so what. Life's too short to read this kind of fine print.
Signup box
You must clik the [Signup] box or it won't happen. Do check stuff before you clik Signup because that pretty much locks in some stuff.
After you clik Signup, a Blogware page will come up saying:
Signup Result
We have sent a confirmation email to xxxx@xxxx.com. Please confirm your signup request by following the instructions included in the email.
Thank you.
Go to your email account
In your email Inbox, you'll see a message from newusersignup@blogware.com with a Subject line saying Signup Confirmation for www.blogware.com
Clik on that message to open it.
In the middle of the text, you'll see a blue line or link.
Clik the blue link.
In about 30 seconds, you will be whisked to your Blogware Control Panel/Address Book/ & My Profile page
It will say that Your account has been confirmed — you are now logged in.
This means you are logged in to the Blogware My Profile page for the last step.
(Decide whether it's OK for people to email you from pogblog. If yes, go down under Account Info & across from that in the Display Staus column, clik the little dropdown & change it from Friends Only to Public. (You can always decide to do this later. SAVE the Welcome to Blogware email you'll get in your email system because it has the link so you can go fuss with your Profile later if you want.)
Clik [Save Changes]
Do NOTHING more now except [LOGOUT] in upper righthand corner of that Blogware My Profile page. Do not put in a new password. You can add lots of stuff later if you want to get into it, but for now you can just log out.
Go back to pogblog.myblogsite.com & on the upper right area where it says Login, type your shiny new username & password (which will look like big black dots)and clik the [Login] box and then you can clik on Comment by any article and proceed!
Congratulations! Well done!
(Remember if you still have questions about how to do this, just email pogblog@yahoo.com. We want this to work for you!)
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