When you click the link to sign-up, you will be asked for a user name and your email address.
The user name should be a one or two words without spaces and preferring no hyphens in the name as your username becomes your address ( yourname.BEAGLEHUNTERS.COM ) so using a space or hyphen will make it harder for folks to find/type your address. (So username is your address not your site name ie   USER: ohiogundog  Title:  Ohio Gundog Association )

You will still be able to name your site with muti words and hyphens if you wish but you do not want them as your address. Now if you are wishing to create the site while you are signing in as a user, check the box to create a blog/site.  When you submit this information, the system will immediately send a email to your address that you will need to click on the link in it to validate your account. If you do not notice the email, please look in your spam filter in your email to see if it did not get caught-up there and if it did, just mark it as a preferred sender and it should not happen again.

Also take note of the password the system issued in a email as you will need it to log-in. It is a system generated letters and numbers to get started with.

Now go to site and log-in with your user name and password that was emailed to you. Take a look around your site administration panel to be familiar with where everything is. The first thing for you to do is change your password to something you will remember.

The next item you should do is look at the pre-loaded themes and choose one the suits your taste/needs other than the default theme that is pretty drab. Don’t worry, if you decide latter that you do not like it, you may switch to others without loosing your content. These themes were created by others and may not work 100% and I have no control of them but have loaded many for you to choose from. The Atahualpa is the most deluxe and has the highest control but I would not suggest you use it unless you are very knowable with blog software and computer files (not for beginners anyway). You will just need to do some trial and error to find what each will do and find what works for you. Within the theme you select, you can give your site a proper name instead of the username/site address  you are useing but its advisable to keep them similar. (ie   USER: ohiogundog  Title:  ohio gundog association )

We will end this “getting started post” with a brief on the difference between pages and posts.

Pages are for more permanent information like “about me”, “my dogs” or things/info that do not change until you amend them.

Posts are a daily/weekly/monthly entries that will be dated and diminish with time like a for-sale listing or news from the trials or your opinion on new dog food.

The system uses the same word processor like interface for each, you must make certain you select the correct type when starting and do not forget to select a category for your posts (you can edit/change later if you did) .

Hopefully this will be enough to get you started. The system uses a modified wordpress engine so if you have ever used wordpress before, you should take right to it.