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- Go to the Home page of the Windy City site.
- Scroll down the page, toward the bottom in the left column to the "User Login" menu.
- Click on the "Create new account" link.
- Choose a username and enter it.
-- Spaces are allowed in the username, but the only allowed punctuation are periods, hyphens and underscores.
- Enter your email address.
- If you are a member of the Windy City RWA chapter, in the "Apply for roles" section click in the box beside "WC Member".
- Click on the "Create new account" button.
- You will be returned to the front page of the site, with a note at the top of the page saying:
"Your application was received for the following role: WC
Member
Your password and further instructions have been sent to your e-mail
address."
- The system will send an email to the address you entered, entitled:
- "Accound details for LOGIN-NAME at WindyCityRWA
***This email has your with your login in password. Keep this email in a safe place.***
- Click the link, or paste it into your browser, at it will take you to the "Reset password" page.
- Click the "Log in" button.
- In the "Password:" box, enter your password, and enter it again into the "Confirm password:" box
-- The system checks the security (strength) of your password, as always, the stronger the password the better
- The "TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor is enabled by default. If you don't want to use it, click on the "TinyMCE rich-text settings" header, then in the "Default state" drop-down, click "disabled".
- The "Contact settings" allows other users to email you without knowing your email. They are taken to a form that they fill out and submit, and the email is sent to the address on this form.
- "Locale Settings" is your time zone setting. I think we are "GMT-6", but to make it simple just scroll down the list to "US/Central"
- Click "Save"
- Record your new password someplace safe.
- If you are a Windy City RWA chapter member, now EMAIL Admin letting the system administrators know you now have a login, so they can assign you to the correct user groups, so you can access various restricted parts of the site.
-- If you don't do this, and I don't give you access, you can't add anything to the site!!
-- It's done this way so that random people can't add content to our site.
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