We've set up a pretty standard blog format. If you're familiar with blogs you'll probably have no problem intuitively making your way about. If not, here's the lowdown.

Follow up:

The Main Stage is the page that the blog defaults to. This page will include the most recent and the most important posts. At the top of each post there will be a post title (if it is orange then it is a link) and under that a "byline" with author and date/time posted. If you see an envelope icon here (or anywhere) then you click it and send an email to that person.

At the bottom of each post you will see either a Leave a comment or # comments (if there are comments posted) link but only if you have registered (more on this in the How To Register post below.) We require registration in order to post for anti-spamming reasons. Click the comment link and you can read and/or post a comment. If you don't see a comment link then either you haven't registered and/or the author hasn't approved comments for that particular post.

The blog is set to show 7 posts before it goes to the next page. So if you're looking for an older post you might want to click the Next link at the top or bottom of the page.

To the right of the main area is the Sidebar. At the top you can click to see Recently posted items as well as the Last comments posted.

Below that will almost always be the current Poll. Pretty self explanatory. Sometimes you may have the option to Add an Answer of your own. You can only vote once and after voting you can view the current results.

Under that is the Calandar. We don't think this does much besides allowing you to click on a particular day to view those posts. There is some kind of Calendar plug-in that does more and we might explore that in the future. Or we might not.

Below that is the Search box. That's for searching.

Under that is Categories. Here you can explore different areas of the blog that may or may not be duplicated on the Front Page. News is for news items. RTH Glossary is an ever growing list of RTH originated terms with examples. (Great toilet reading if you have a laptop.) Also there is the User's Guide which you must already know about if you're reading this!

Archives are next. Pretty obvious I think.

Then the Linkblog. The top of the Linkblog has links to the various Rock Town Hall Amazon stores. We've got costs in putting this thing out so support your friendly neighborhood Rock Town Hall and buy cool stuff here. Under those are links to friends, neighbors and websites of fellow Townsmen (see Glossary).

Misc is next. Here is where you login, logout and edit your profile.

Under that is XML Feeds. We don't claim to completely understand all of the options there but it has something to do with news feeds. I know that my personal my.Yahoo page allows me to see the current RTH post titles with this.

That's pretty much it. Oh yeah, if you click the RTH logo header at the top it will take you back to the Front Page at any time.

Thank you for your attention.

The Back Office