BOARD FEATURES

The B-Board that we chose to use for our site is one of the most popular boards on the internet and has a lot of rich features. Below is a brief description of some of the board features. For more information see user guides, flash tutorials and more feature information below. Click above or below to enter the board and join or log in.

USER CONTROL PANEL

• Overview Tab - here you can manage subscriptions, bookmarks, drafts & attachments.

• Profile Tab - here you can edit your profile, your signature, your avatar and your account settings

• Board preferences Tab - Edit your global settings, edit your posting defaults, edit your display options [the purpose of this board is to learn and communicate therefore it is critical that you allow e-mail communications that are set by default]

• Private messages Tab - here you can compose a message, manage PM's, drafts, manage your inbox and outbox, send messages and set your rules, folders and settings

• User-groups Tab - here you can edit your memberships in all the groups you are a member of, by default everyone is a registered user and have all member privilege access to the main boards. If you are a board administrator and/or board moderator you will find that title in your group list. If you dot a user group and then click on the mange group tag to the left you can edit options and manage users. You can also join other groups. By default if you are joining a state group you can only belong to one. Or you can make a request to the site Administrator to add another type of group that you might want to moderate and if the group type works with our overall plan we will create it for you.

• Friends & Foes Tab - here you can manage your friends that will enable you to have quick access to members you communicate with frequently or manage foes who are users which will be ignored by default.

• As you read through the board you can track interesting forums and have notices sent to you when a new post is made or you can mark items as read to allow you to more easterly see what's new.