o This page is where you can view and manage all of your logabottle features, including your Bottle Log, Profile, Lists, Bottle Watches and Discussion Board

· How do I add an Image to My Home Page?

o To add a picture to your My Home Page (and public Bottle Log), click on the “My Profile” link on your My Home Page

o Scroll down to “Upload an image from your machine”

o Click on the “Browse…” button to find the picture you want to add on your computer

§ NOTE: The image must be less than 60 KB and smaller than 300 x 200 pixels

· What does “View my public bottle log” do?

o If you click on the “View my public bottle log” link, you will be taken to the page that all other users see when they choose to view your Bottle Log

o This is where you can view both your Image and Introduction Note as others will see it

o Note: If you do not want other users to see your Bottle Log, you can opt to make it Private

§ Click on the “My Profile” link and scroll down to “Public Bottle Log Control Panel”

§ Select “No” for option 2, which reads “Display a public bottle log of all my tasting notes:”

· What does the “My Profile” link do?

o Update personal information, including:

§ Email Address – address to which we will send Newsletters and questions, if we need to contact you; accessible to administrators only

§ Password – change your password as needed; not accessible to users or administrators

§ Location – viewed by users and administrators on the Users page

o Update website Preferences, including:

§ Always notify me of replies – if you want to receive an email when someone posts on your Discussion Board

§ Receive logabottle.com email updates – if you want to receive the logabottle.com Newsletters and other notifications via email

§ Timezone – choose the Timezone in which you live, so that Date Logged will be correct when you log a bottle of wine

o Google Map Preferences

§ Show a map on your own My Bottle Log page – if you want the Google Map on your My Bottle Log page

§ Show a map on your public Bottle Log page – if you want the Google Map on your public Bottle Log page

§ Show a map on your Bottle Lists – if you want the Google Map on the personal Bottle Lists pages you create

o Public Bottle Log Control Panel

§ Allow Other users to see my individual tasting notes – if you want other users to be able to view your wines logged on the All Logs page

§ Display a public bottle log of all my tasting notes – if you want other users to be able to view your Bottle Log

§ Display a simple discussion board on my public bottle log – if you want other logabottle registered users to be able to add comments on your chat board, and have it viewable on your public Bottle Log page

§ Upload an image from your machine – if you want a picture associated with your Bottle Log.

· Click the “Browse…” button to search your computer for the image you want to upload.

· Limit to image size: 300 x 200 pixels and 60 KB

· Viewable on your public Bottle Log, My Home Page, and the Users page.

· If you want to delete your current image and not replace it with another, check the “Delete Image” box below your Current Image

§ Log Introduction Note – if you want to write something for other users to see when they view your Bottle Log

· Limit to text length: 1000 characters (not words!)

· Viewable on your public Bottle Log

o Click “Submit” to save changes, or “Reset” to empty out all of the fields

· What does it mean to “Manage my lists”?

o logabottle.com allows its users to create personalized lists of wines that have been logged

o This link allows you to create or delete a list and view your lists.

· How do I create a list?

o Click on the “Manage my lists” link

o On the new page, add the name of the list you wish to make in the “Create a new list” box and click “Submit”

§ You do not need to create a list in advance in order to add a wine to it.

§ Instead, you can chose a wine that you want to manage separately, then click the to expand the logged information on that bottle

· At the bottom of the expanded information, click the link that reads “Add this bottle to a list”

· On the new page, add the name of the list you wish to make in the “Create a new list” box and click “Submit”, and the bottle will be put in this new list

· How do I delete a list?

o Click on the “Manage my lists” link

o Click the “Remove” link that is next to the list you wish to remove – THIS ALONE WILL NOT DELETE THE LIST

o A message will come up that asks: “Are you sure? Deleting this list cannot be undone!”

§ If you are sure you want to delete the list, click “delete”

§ If you do not want to delete the list, click “Cancel”

· How do I delete a bottle from a list?

o Click on the “Manage my lists” link

o Click on the List name that the bottle you want to delete is in

o Click the at the right of the bottle that you wish to delete

o Above the expanded bottle information on the right, click the link that reads: “Remove from this list” and the bottle will be removed from the list

· How do I add a bottle to a list?

o Chose a wine that you want to manage separately, then click the to expand the logged information on that bottle

o At the bottom of the expanded information, click the link that reads “Add this bottle to a list”

o If you already have a list that you want to put the bottle into, click the “Add to this list” link that is to the right of the appropriate list

o If you want to put the bottle in a new list, just add the name of the list you wish to make in the “Create a new list” box and click “Submit” and the wine will be put in the new list

· What does it mean to “Manage my bottle watches”?

o logabottle.com allows its users to create lists of wines that are automatically updated based on certain criteria that the user sets

o This link allows you to add or delete these lists, which we call Bottle Watches

· How do I create a Bottle Watch?

o Click on the “Manage my bottle watches” link on your My Home Page

o Click on the top most “Add” link to add a new Bottle Watch

§ Note: you can only have up to 5 bottle watches at one time

o Enter the number of bottles that you want to show up under you Bottle Watch on your My Home Page

o Click the “+” sign to the right of the “Filter” text to expand the Filter option and add the criteria of your Bottle Watch

§ In the first field, chose an item that you want to filter the Bottle Watch by

§ In the second field, chose whether you want the Bottle Watch to either include or exclude, or be less than or greater than, the item you chose in the first field

§ In the third field, select or enter the criteria that you want the Bottle Watch filter to apply to

§ To add additional filter criteria, click the “+” sign to the right of the third field, and another filter option will expand

o If you want to sort the results of your Bottle Watch, click the “+” sign to the right of the “Sort” text to expand the Sort option

§ In the first field, chose an item that you want to Sort the Bottle Watch by

§ In the second field, chose how you want to order the Bottle Watch

§ To sort the Bottle Watch by more than one criteria, click the “+” sign to the right of the second field, and another sort option will expand

o Decide what you want to call this Bottle Watch and enter that title in the “Give a name to this watch:” field

o Click the “Save this bottle watch” link to save your new Bottle Watch

o All of the wines that match the criteria you set in your filters will now show up on your My Home Page under the My Bottle Watches header

· How do I edit a Bottle Watch?

o Unfortunately, you cannot edit a Bottle Watch.

o Instead, you need to add a new Bottle Watch with your updated specifications, and delete the old one.

· How do I delete a Bottle Watch?

o Click on the “Manage my bottle watches” link on your My Home Page

o Click on the “Delete” link next to the Bottle Watch you wish to remove

· What does the “Site News” link do?

o Click on “Site News” to go to the logabottle.com blog, in which the editors write updates about the site

· Why does a “New” icon show up next to Site News sometimes?

o Whenever we add something to our Site News, a yellow icon that says “New” will show up next to the Site News link

o This alerts our users that we have an announcement we’d like to share with them

· What is My Discussion Board?

o All users have a Discussion Board on their My Home Page. This allows users to chat with each other by posting messages to the board.

o A default message shows up as the first post on every user’s Discussion Board

§ You can edit the default message on your own Discussion Board

· How do I edit a message on My Discussion Board?

o Simply click the Edit icon to change a message that you added to a Discussion Board

o You can only edit posts that you added

· How do I delete a message on My Discussion Board?

o Posts cannot be deleted from Discussion Boards

· How do I add a message to someone’s Discussion Board?

o Enter your note into the text box and click the “Add a comment” button

· How do I edit a message I added to someone’s Discussion Board?

o Simply click the Edit icon to change a message that you added to a Discussion Board

· How do I remove My Discussion Board?

o You can opt to make the Discussion Board private (so no other users can see it or add to it) by clicking the “My Profile” link on your My Home Page

o Scroll down to the Public Bottle Log Control Panel and check the No option for the “Display a simple discussion board on my public bottle log”

o Note that you cannot delete old posts, and they will continue to show on your My Home Page, even after you make the Discussion Board inactive

· What are My Friends?

o My Friends are users that you have selected to track

o Their user names will appear on the upper right of your My Home Page

o Additionally, the number of new bottles that the Friend has logged since you last signed in will be in parentheses after the user name

· How do I add Friends?

o To add a user as a Friend, go to their public Bottle Log

§ You can access their public Bottle Log by going to the “Users” page and finding and clicking on their user name

o Click on the “add to My Friends” link located below their user name

· How do I delete Friends?

o Go to My Home Page and click the “edit my friends” link at the bottom of your list of Friends

o Click the “remove” link next to the user name that you wish to delete

· How do I see all the information for a wine on My Home Page?

o You will notice only a few, key items show up for each wine listed on your My Home page

o To view all of the available information, click the to the right of the bottle you are interested in

o All of the fields that have been filled out for the bottle you have selected will appear in the column on the right side of the page

o At the bottom of this list of information are two options:

§ Add this bottle to a list

· This option allows you to add the wine to a personalized list

· You do not need to have already created a list in order to utilize this option

· Click on the link and you can add the bottle to a new list that you create on the spot, or add it to one of your already existing lists which will be listed

· These lists are then stored on your My Home Page, where you can view and edit them

§ Email this bottle info

· This option allows you to email the information in the bottle log to yourself, a friend, or anyone

· Click the link to see all the information available for the wine, and how it will look in the email

· At the bottom of the page, fill out the “Email address to send to:” and “Your Name:” boxes

· Click “Submit” to send the email

· Why is there sometimes a red message above the expanded wine information telling me I can buy wine?

o Thanks to our affiliate, Triggit.com, we can now offer our users the ability to buy certain wines logged on logabottle.com

o To check if a wine can be bought on logabottle.com, click the next to the bottle of your choice listed on your Bottle Log, My Home Page, or All Logs

§ It can be a bottle that any user logged, not just your own

o In the expanded wine information on the right, check at the top to see if there is a message in red indicating that the wine can be bought through a participating retailer

o If the link exists, click on it to be redirected to that retailer’s website and the bottle that you selected will be available for you to buy

o Currently only the more popular, U.S. wines can be purchased on logabottle.com. But as we continue to grow, more and more wines will become available for purchase from our site

· How do I see the wines that are not on the front page?

o At the bottom of the list of wines, but before the map, are the “Go to page” links that will take you to other pages of your My Bottle Log

o You can select the page number you want to go to, or just click “Next” to go to the next page