Welcome / Getting Started (Please Read)
If this is your first visit to this page we would like to sincerely thank you for registering as a Supporter of the Children’s Fire Movement.
Upon logging in to your account for the first time there are a few things that we urge new Supporters to do…
1 Update your Supporter Account ‘Profile’
In order to carrry out the following recommendations you may find the following useful…
‘Navigating The CFM Community Pages’
‘How to update my profile’
Upload your Avatar
An avatar is an image that represents who you are on this website. By default a grey user icon will be selected as the avatar for you, but it’s best if you can replace this with your photograph, or a meaningful image that represents who you are. We ask this because avatar images appear in your public profile, on our Supporters List, Supporters Map (if you choose to be on the map) etc.
Supporter Admin Bar => Profile => Change Avatar
- Navigate to the ‘Change Avatar’ section of your ‘Profile’ Page…
- Hover over your name on the admin bar at the top of the screen (your name will be in the top-right corner) – a drop down menu will open out.
- Hover over the ‘Profile’ option and click on ‘Change Avatar’.
- Click on the ‘Choose File’ button – this opens up a file dialogue window from where you can choose an image on your harddrive.
- Click the ‘Upload Image’ button – voila!
Complete your profile information
You will notice that there are four ‘Profile Groups’ (‘Me!’, ‘Me and the CFM’, ‘Contact’ and ‘My Location’). Profile groups are simply sub sections of your Profile that help you organise your information.
- Me!
- You actually completed the Me! section during registration. But, if you didn’t complete the “I am” field correctly please do so as this is displayed on your public pop-up profiles etc.
- Me and the CFM
- ‘Message’ field: If you have an inspirational/supportive message to share with the public regarding the Children’s Fire and/or this movement please complete the ‘Message’ field.
- ‘Pledge’ fields (if you choose to make the Pledge).
- ‘Contact’
- Your contact details are a completely optional entry and, like most other profile fields, you can also determine who can see this information (see the tutorial below).
- ‘My Location’
- ‘My Location’ holds your address and map geo-location data (latitude and longitude) and related map options. Please complete your ‘County/State’ and ‘Country’ fields as these are required.
- You do not need to appear on the map but we do urge you to as this helps site visitors get an idea as to the coverage and extent of CFM support – it provides an image of what they are becoming a part of!
Supporter Admin Bar => Profile => Edit => (Me!, Me and the CFM, Contact and My Location)
- Navigate to the Edit section of your Profile Page…
- Hover over your name on the admin bar at the top of the screen (your name will be in the top-right corner) – a drop down menu will open out.
- Hover over the ‘Profile’ option and click on ‘Edit’.
- You will see four buttons (‘Me!’, ‘Me and the CFM’, ‘Contact’ and ‘My Location’) – clicking on these display each Profile Group’s fields for editing. The group displayed by default is ‘Me!’.
- Simply type in each text field to make your additions/changes.
- How to change the privacy setting for each field:
- Directly under each field is a line of text “This field can be seen by: ” it is followed by one of the following privacy settings…
- Anyone – anyone can see this field.
- Logged in Users – only logged in users can see this field
- My Friends – only people you have made ‘friend connections’ with can see this field
- Admins Only – IGNORE THIS!! We are developing this privacy level which will basically be for website administrators use only.
- User Only – Only YOU can see this. This is useful for postcode, latitude and longitude data etc that is used by the system but not necessarily what you want others to see.
- If you see a ‘Change’ link after the privacy setting you can click on this link to change the setting. Not all fields allow you to change the privacy.
- When you are complete with all your changes on the current Profile Group click the ‘Save Changes’ button at the bottom of the form. Important: if you click on another Profile Group button to edit more fields before you have clicked ‘Save Changes’ you will lose all of your changes for the current Profile Group!
Supporter Admin Bar => Profile => Edit => My Location
- Click on the ‘My Location’ profile group button.
- Complete your address information. Without this Google will not be able to determine your geographical coordinates. Note: you can hide any address details, other than your ‘County/State’ and ‘Country’ fields, by setting each field’s privacy setting (see steps above).
- Select ‘Yes’ for the ‘Include me on the Supporters Map’ field.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page to the ‘Set your latitude and longitude using the free Google Geocoding service…’ section.
- Click the ‘Get address from my profile’ button. This basically uses your address information that you have already provided and places it in a field for Google to analyse.
- At this stage you can edit the combined address field to give greater or lesser accuracy on the map. For example, if you would rather only associate yourself with the town of Bude in Cornwall, England, simply delete your Post/Zip code and the first line of your address. This means that you can have your full address on display in your profile (for say, just your friends) without giving your exact location away on the map!
- When you are happy with the address to be used click the ‘Get longitude and latitude’ button. This automatically fills you’re longitude and latitude fields in your profile.
- Now click the ‘Save changes’ button above.
2 Update your Supporter Account ‘Settings’
Password
If you did not register your account your self, it may be that the CFM set it up on your behalf. In this case you will have a randomly generated password. To change this to something more memorable (whilst remaining secure)…
Supporter Admin Bar => Settings => General
- Navigate to the ‘General’ section of your account ‘Settings’. To do this…
- Hover over your name on the admin bar at the top of the screen (your name will be in the top-right corner) – a drop down menu will open out.
- Hover over the ‘Settings’ option and click on ‘General’.
- You will see two password fields above the ‘Save Changes’ button. Simply enter your new password into these and click on ‘Save Changes’.
Please note that it is important to create a secure password. The goal with your password is to make it hard for other people to guess. Many automatic password generators are available that can be used to create secure passwords.
Things to avoid when choosing a password:
- Any permutation of your own real name, username, company name, or name of your website.
- A word from a dictionary, in any language.
- A short password.
- Any numeric-only or alphabetic-only password (a mixture of both is best).
Email Notifications
The Supporter Community notifies you regarding a variety of changes to the system via email (Friends/Groups/Forums, and site-wide activity) and you can customise exactly which notifications you receive. All notifications are switched on by default.
Supporter Admin Bar => Settings => Notifications
- Navigate to the ‘General’ section of your account ‘Settings’. To do this…
- Hover over your name on the admin bar at the top of the screen (your name will be in the top-right corner) – a drop down menu will open out.
- Hover over the ‘Settings’ option and click on ‘Notifications’.
- Simply select Yes or No for each of the notifications and then click on ‘Save Changes’.
3 Read our CFM User Guide and…
This resource is available but currently under development
4 Make, and connect with, ‘Friends’
This resource is not yet available – coming soon!
