FAQ --(EN)

29 Jul 08 07:34:01 GMT

Menu "Navigation"

How to hide some sections in menu "Navigation" if I don't need them

Click in menu "Navigation", click near the unnecessary section so it will change by , it means that you hide this section, click "Save". To enable this section click

Attention! It's impossible to hide "About site owner" section but you can rename it.

How to change a default section

To change a default section for example "Pictures" or "Chat" click select the section from scroll list near "Default service", click "Save".

How to rename the section

Click in menu "Navigation", click near sction which you want to rename, rename the section and click "Save".

How to arrange the sections in menu "Navigation"

Click in menu "Navigation", drag the section and drop it in appropriate place, click "Save".

How to add new section in menu "Navigation"

You can add additional link or buttun in nemu "Navigation":

1. How to add link in menu "Navigation":

•· click

•· fill the "Link name:" field, this name is displayed in menu "Navigation"

•· fill the "Web address:" field in the "http://..." format

•· click "Save"

•· to remove the link from menu "Navigation" click near this link.

2. To add button in menu "Navigation":

•· click

•· fill the "Picture URL" field. It need upload picture for button beforehand, take wiki-tags "Direct link to picture"

•· fill the "Web address:" field in the "http://..." format

•· enter alternative name for buttom in "Description" field

•· click "Save"

•· to remove the link from menu "Navigation" click near this button.

How to insert advertising on my site in every page of my site if I ain't paid user

You have an oportunity to add advertising banner in "Description" block of each section ("Description" blok is a top part of page where avatar is located). Click , click near the section, in "Description" field add banner's code, click "Save".

My profile

How to change my personal information displayed in "About site owner" section

Control panel > My profile > Edit my profile

You can change your personal information in "About me" tab. If you look for somebody there is large quantity of users' application for dating in MyLivePage system. To take part in "Dating" search pass to "Personal" tab and put a tick near the "Participate in people search:" and also you can fill the application bellow so someone can find out you. You have an opportunity to find your former classmates or co-worker if they register in our system or someone can find out you just fill the application in "Education" tab.

What is avatar and how to change it

An avatar is computer user's representation of himself or herself (150x50px and no more then 40Kb) which displayed in "Description" block on site, Internet forums of MyLivePage system. It can be your photo or any picture refered to the personality connected with the screen name, or handle, of an Internet user.

Control panel > My profile > Edit my avatar(picture)

Click "View" - select file which will bee your avatar (file with *.jpg *gif or *.png extension) - click "Upload".

Edit user's settings

How to change site language and editor type

Control panel > My profile > Edit my settings

"Common" tab is loaded by default on this page you can change site language, editor type for example wiki or tiny-mce, enter keyword through comma seargh engine, enter site nime which displayed in the top bar of the browser.

How to hide unnecessary block on site

Control panel > My profile > Edit my settings

Pass to the "Extra" tab, clean the ticks near the unnecessary elements in "Blocks show" block. On this page you can put off notification receiving and etc.

How to change password

Control panel > My profile > Change password

We recomend to think up sufficiently difficult password (no less then 6 characters) including lower case characters "abc...", upper case characters "ABC...", numbers "123..." and other simbols like ",./\!@#$%^&()+=*'";:". Enter current password - enter new password - submit new password - click change password.

E-mail

How to change e-mail

Control panel > My profile > Change password

Enter new e-mail - enter symbols shiwn on picture - click "Change e-mail". Your e-mail was changed, letter with activation link will be send on new e-mail, click this link to activate your new e-mail.

If your e-mail was not activated before

You have to receive the letter with the link activation. If you don't receive this letter during 24 hours after registration verify "Spam" folder of your mail may be your mail system have recognized it as "Spam". You can use and develop your site without activation but:

- You cann't restore yor site password in case of password loss

- You cann't receive some important notification of MyLivePage system

If you have not activated e-mail and have deleted the letter with link:

Control panel > Send link for activation E-mail again

Note "Send link for activation E-mail again" will be shown in "Control panel" up to e-mail activating

How to change my site domain

To change site domain (make it easier and memorable), for example, enter domain.com instead of site_name.mylivepage.ru you have to bee an owner of the second-level domain. It means that you have to be owner oa domain.com and can control it. If you have second-level domain:

1. Enter the following rules in the DNS settings: " domain.com CNAME partners.mylivepage.net " и " www.domain.com CNAME partners.mylivepage.net " (without "") . This rules meant that all query will be redirected in our system.

2. Control panel > My profile > Change password

Enter new domain in the field and click "Save".

Traffic

What maximal size of one downloading file is allowed

50Mb is allowed for one downloading file.

What total capacity given every user for files and pictures is allowed

1024 Mb or 1 Gb is total capacity given every user for files and pictures.

What is my site traffic? What does it mean for me

Each user get 2Gb of traffic which he can spend for the next 7 days.It means that visitors of your site can download and upload pictures and files and total capacity of this traffic is 2 Gb. The total traffic is 4Gb. If user spend his traffic evenly then system add new portion of weekly traffic (is 1/7 part of weekly trffic). But if you spend your weekly quota for one day it need to wait for 6 days when our system add traffic.

Can I redistribute my trafffic between pictures and files

Unfortunately it's impossible

How to know my site traffic

There are two ways to know the site statistics:

1. Control panel > My profile > Traffic

You can know your site traffic made outlays for files and pictures for the last 7 days and also future traffic.

2. Go to "Pcture" and "File archive" section, in the end of this page you can see your site traffic

Paid user. How to get "Privileged user" status

If you make outlays weekly trafiic and need more then 1 Gb of disc space for your files and pictures so you have an opportunity to buy "Privileged user" status i.e. buy "Beginner" or "Professional" tariff. Besides additional traffic and disc space you get the following benefits:

- Insert your advertising on site (Google)

- Switch off system advertising

- Download all files from sites made outlays weekly traffic

- Download file in case of disconnect

- Upload zip-archive

- Create your own icons

To buy "Beginner" or "Professional" tariff:

Control panel > My profile > Pay

You can know the tariffs' price, advantures and pay for them.

How to delete my site

Control panel > My profile > Delete my site

You have an opportunity to restore it.

Design

How to change my site design?

Control panel > Design > Change my site design

Attention! It's impossible to edit template by html tags. But you have an opportunity to edit different template elements or to create your own design.

How to change site background

Control panel > Design > Edit backgroung

Click "View" - select file with *.jpg or *.png extension - select folder in "Picture" section where file will be uploaded - click "Upload".

How to edit menu "Navigation"

Control panel > Design > Edit navigation menu

How to edit menu "Navigation" you can find out here.

What template elements may you change? how to do it without html tags.

It's impossible to edit template by html tags. But you have an opportunity to edit different template elements, for example font style and color, link color and other.

Control panel > Design > Edit design settings

How to change the elments position on page

Control panel > Design > Edit position of elements on page

Drag and drop needed element on appopriate place. You can reset all changes to an initial condition at any point by clicking "Reset Changes". If you wanr to save changes click "Save".

What is Favicon and how to change it on your website

A favicon - short for 'favorites icon' - also known as a website icon, page icon or urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage ( for mylivepage). Browsers that support them may display them in the browser's URL bar, next to the site's name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page's title in a tabbed document interface.

Paid users can change their favicon:

Control panel > Design > Edit favicon

Click "View", select your favicon.ico created by yourself before, click "Upload". Right here you can find out useful source which can help you to create your own one.

My own site design

How to create my own site design

Control panel > Design > Create my site template

What do spacial tags in "Create my site template" mean?

Answer is placed here

Can I download my site template from FTP?

Unfortunately it's impossible bacause your system takes not fron files but from special structure data bases. Click "Control Panel" - "Design" - "Create my site template" to create your own template for site.

Security

How to appoint the moderators on my site. What can they do on my site?

Moderators are the special group of users which have the privileges. These privileges depend on rights given the moderators by you.

Moderators of en.mylivepage.com can:

1. Ban users

2. Delete the comments

3. Delete the messages in chat

The site owner can point the moderators for his/her site and give them appropriate rights with help of "Access right manager". To add user to moderators' list:

Control panel > Security > Appoint moderators

There are two ways to add users into moderators' list:

- put up the tick near the necessary users and click "Save"

- enter user's name and domain manually and click "Add moderator". User appointed to moderator ia addedto the friends' list automatically.

How to appoint the administrators on site. What can they do on my site?

Administrator has the same rights as the site owner. The owner can point administrator on his/her site for example to solve some problem.

Control panel > Security > Admininstrators' list

You can see administrators' list and edit it on this page. To add administrator eneter user's name and domain click "Add administrator". Click to remove the moderator from site.

How to verify sites lists where I am administrator

Control panel > Security > Admininstrators' list

On this page you can verify list of sites where you are administrator, remove yourself from administrators' lists and switch on/off receiving of the notification from sites where you are administrator.

Access right manager

Control panel > Security > Admininstrators' list

On this page you can grant to the different users' groups the rights to reading, deleting, editing, adding of new entries in the following sections: "Picture", "File archive", "Blog", "Forum", "Pages", "Links". There are four users' groups created by default: registered users, friends, moderators, plain users. Put up the tick the section where you grant the rights, put up the tick the rights for appropriate users' group, click "Submit".

My contacts

I want to receive this site's updates by mail

You have an opportunity to receive the updates of favorite sites by e-mail. Enter your e-mail for example name@mail.com in "Subscription" block on farite site and click "Subscribe":

Attention! Click the raference in the letter sent to your e-mail to submit subscription.

The site's owner can see the list of his/her subscribers.

I want that my friends receive my site updates by e-mail

You have your site and upload interesting content on it so you want to inform your friends by e-mail about it. MyLivePge grant an opportunity to you to show site updates to your friends via e-mail:

Control panel > My contacts > Edit contact list

There are two ways to insert e-mails into list of site updates' subscribers:

1. Manually:

- enter e-mail for example in te following box:

- this e-mail appears under the box, click "Add contacts"

- so you see this e-mail in e-mails' list:

Attention! This entry have status "not confirmed". The e-mail owner have to submit he want to receive your site's updates by clicking on the link in the letter sent to his e-mail.

2. Automatically (all e-mais will be imported from address book of your mail box):

- select domain of your e-mail from scroll list

- enter your login and e-mail's password:

- click "Import", our system load all e-mails in address book of your mail box.

Attention! This entry have status "not confirmed". The e-mails' owners have to submit they want to receive your site's updates by clicking on the link in the letter sent to their e-mail.

Click to remove e-mail from e-mails' list.

Friends' list

What does "site is in friends' list" mean?

If your site isn't community you can add another sites in to your friends' list and also another users can add your site in their friends' lists. If you add any site in your "My friends" list you can:

1. receive updates of frind's site in your frinds' line directly on your site. Click "Friends" section in menu "Navigation" to see all updates of your frinds' sites.

2. Grant to group of friends the right to reading, editing, deleting and adding of entries in each section.

Where can I see the list of my friends?

Your friends' list and list of sites where you are in friends' lists are located in "About site owner" in menu "Navigation".

How to edit friends' list

There are two ways to edit friends' list:

1. Being on sites of another users click and the this site will be added to your friends' list automatically.

2. Control panel > My contacts > Edit friends' list

On this page click "Add user as a friend", enter login and domain click "Ok".

There are two ways to remove site from "My friends" list:

1. Click "about site owner" in menu "Navigation", click near the user name

2. Control panel > My contacts > Edit friends' list

Click the user name which you want to remove click "Remove friend from the list", click ok

Attention! You cann't edit "Friend of:" list

Subscription

I posted the comment on another site and now want to get answers another users' comments in that topic

Control panel > My contacts > Subscription

On this page "Entries" tab is shown by default where you can see new entries which were posted by another users in that topic where you posted your comments for example on forum. Also you get the same "Entries" in e-mail (if it's activated). These entries come by default. To cancel a subscribtion clean the tick "I want to get comments' notification on e-mail".

Where can I see the list of subscriptions to sites

Control panel > My contacts > Subscription

On this page page pass to "Sites" tab to see list of subscription to sites entered by you. You also can enter a subscription to site: enter site name and domain and click "Subscription to site":

Attention! Click the raference in the letter sent to your e-mail to submit subscription.

Ban users on my site

Site owner can forbit users:

1. to send messages to your messenger

2. to go to chat

3. to edit, add/remove the entries for users whose can do it

There are two ways to ban users:

1. by login

2. by ip (An IP address - Internet Protocol address - is a unique address that certain electronic devices use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard (IP)-in simpler terms, a computer address.). if you ban user by ip nobody from the same net can do anything on your site

Control panel > My contacts > Banned users

On this page you can see the listof banned by login and ip anf also you can ban users: enter user name and domain, click "Ban".

How to see the list of users entered a subscription to my site

Control panel > My contacts > Banned users

On this page you can see the list of users entered a subscription to your site.

Common questions

What is MLP?

MLP is internal money.

Thera are few ways to get it:

1. for downloading files on your site

2. for comments on other sites

3. you can get MLP if new visitor register through link on your site

4. top10 users

Can I create subfolders in the partitions?

It's impossible nowbut in future we plan to implement it.

What html tags are available in system?

You can find out your answer in Mylivepedia

What do numbers into counter on your site mean?

These numbers mean(top-down in order):

- the numbers of unique visitor for whole period

- the numbers of clicks for whole period

- (with +)the numbers of unique visitors for whole day by this moment

- (with +)the numbers of clicks for whole day by this moment

How to upload files via FTP

It's impossible at this moment but in future we plan to implement this feature cause it's not so comfortable to upload files via web-browser

I can't login to my site and "Cookie not enabled" is appeared. What to do?

1. Decrease the security level in Internet Explorer
2. Switch on cookies in browser
3. Remove all cookies in computer
4. Switch off cookies cutting in firewall (for example Outpost Firewall)

What do terms "EROTICA", "PORNO" AND "FOR ADULTS" mean in our system?

"PORNO" means pictures and video of genital organs and coitus Attention! The sites containing: - banners and references to porno sites - drawn porno pictures - zip porno files are numbered among "PORNO". The moderators working here block sites containing "PORNO".

Materials "FOR ADULTS" mean "EROTICA". "EROTICA" means pictures of naked woman bosom. Sites containing files "FOR ADULTS" aren't blocked but they don't take part in rating.

If your site was moved to "FOR ADULTS" and you wanna come back to rating you need:

- remove erotic files

- click "About the website owner" - "Adult Materials | Abuse"

Attention! Click this reference only once. We see all messages it needn't ro report about it scores of times. If nothing changes and your site isn't moved, please, verify thoroughly may be you lost some erotic files remove them and try to click "Adult Materials | Abuse" again.

What should you do if your site was blocked by Administration?

We can block site if it contains pictures, video, audio and other information

- are protected by copyright (the rightholder report the infringement of copyright to us)

- containing "PORNO"

- subjecting to propaganda of the violence and racial discrimination

To unblock the site you need:

- remove unallowable information

- report it to Administration

- Administration will unblock your site

If you always break the rules we block your site forever.

Why JavaScript is disallowed on my pages. Can I get JavaScript enabled if I become payed user ?

We have to disallow JavaScript for security purposes. If JavaScript is enabled for web site it can be used to read cookies, containing authentication information, which could lead to account being compromised.

In the future we might add certain "Trusted" Java script code easy to include for our users.

Are PHP script and MySQL Data Base allowed in our system?

PHP script and MySQL Data Base are NOT allowed in our system

I want to ask question and receive answer. Where can I do it?

Post your question on forum or send a message to Technical Support

What is MyLivePage.com?

MyLivePage.com is a hosting, which allows you to create a personal interactive website for free. We are different from classic hosting and automatic website creators as after registering with us, the user gets a website which is immediately ready for use. With MyLivePage.com, you will get a website with the domain name username.mylivepage.com and the following features:

The website is immediately ready for use, which means that you can straightaway add photographs, files and other information and give the website link to your friends.

Adding content to the website is very simple, it can be done by clicking once in the web-browser, so you can forget about FTP and HTML coding.

The website has all the classic sections straightaway: web pages (HTML and WIKI), blog, forum, chat, picture and file storage. The user can disable some of these sections if they aren't needed.

Website design can be changed according to what the user wants it to look like - you can choose a design from the available skins.

All the material uploaded by the user can be discussed through comments with the website visitors.

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