About Group Home Pages

1. login to the site in the left hand column of the site

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2. use the search facility at the top left of every page, putting in your postcode and/or street name.

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3. search by county or local authority area, using our find-a-group link along the top, under the neighbourhoodwatch.net logo.

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If your coordinator has set up a Group Home Page for your group, then it will appear in either of these searches. If not - get them onto it sharpish!

When you've found your Group Home Page, just click the 'set this page as your Group Home Page here' button, and neighbourhoodwatch.net will automatically remember that this is your Group Home Page next time you visit.

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Tell a neighbour about your group's home page by clicking on the loud haler.

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Setting it up takes about five minutes. Your basic group contact details will already be there, taken from our 'find-a-group' database. In addition, you can add a photograph, some news items, and useful local contacts. You can even upload the minutes of your last meeting for your members to download onto their computers.

It's that simple, much easier than having a complicated website - and costs nothing.

First, login in to the site in the left hand column

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Once lgged in, you'll see a 'create group home page' link in the left hand column, below 'your account'.

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Click through to your Group Home Page. Click 'Registered this group's details? Edit this page here' - and away you go.

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Upload a photo (if you don't have one, try one of these), fill in the boxes with content, and when you've finished, hit 'click here to update your page'.

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A few tips

* the maximum file size for uploading photograps is 1MB

* horizontal photos work best

* you can change the photograph at any time

* adding news items: each news item pushes the last one lower down the list, until eventually it gets shunted into the archive

* Tell a neighbour about your group's home page by clicking on the loud haler.

* other useful contacts: make sure you have any individual's permission before including their contact details (all email addresses will be encoded and invisible to spammers)

* website addresses should start with www. (miss out the 'http://' bit)

* downloads: we accept PDFs, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, as well as photographs under 1 MB