Diddlyi Users Guide

Contents
Writing Your Own Journal
Design Your Page
List and Manage Your Event

How Do I Set up a Journal and Why Would I Want To?

A journal is simply an online diary or commentary. But unlike a regular diary you can add pictures, videos, widgets and other multimedia to your Diddlyi Journal. You can talk about anything you like - competitions, your life, updates on injuries or training, or your opinions on anything you can think of.

Just as you make regular entries to a normal journal, you also make regular entires to your Diddlyi journal. This could be as often as once a day or as infrequently as once a month (if you're like most people, you'll just make entries 'as and when' you feel like).

Here's how you start a Diddlyi Journal of your own:

STEP 1 - Go to your homepage (My Page) and click "My Journal".

STEP 2 - Click "Add New Journal Post" in the top right hand corner.

STEP 3 - Give your Journal entry a title and add some text. You can use the icons (seen in the screenshot below) to format your text, add pictures, add links and attach files to your blog entry.

STEP 4 - Choose when you want to publish your Journal entry (either right away or at some future date) and set who can view your Journal entry.

STEP 5 - If you now click on the "My Page" tab to get to your profile and then click "My Journal", you'll see the title your first Journal entry! You can edit it at any time and to the right you'll see the "Monthly Archives" box - where all of your Journal entries will be stored in date order!

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How Do I Add Pictures to My Journal Entries?

Click the picture icon and you can choose to either upload a picture from your PC or paste the URL of picture you've already uploaded. If you're not sure about pasting URL's see the question below "How do I let other members know about my Journal and new Journal entries?".

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Can I Add Videos to My Journal Entries?

Absolutely and it's very easy! You can add a video from say Diddlyi, YouTube or Meta Cafe (or any video sharing site for that matter)

Simply go to YouTube for example and find the video you want. To the right you'll see a box with some embed code in. Simply copy and paste this into your blog entry and presto... the video will appear!

At YouTube (for example), highlight the code circled in red, copy it to your clipboard (press "Ctrl" and "C") and then paste it into your blog entry ("Ctrl" and "V"). Most video platforms such as Firefighter Nation's video and Google Video also include 'embed' code. Simply follow the same procedure.

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How do I Let Other Members Know About My Journal and New Journal Entries?

Click the 'Share/Send to Friends' link at the bottom of your post, and use the tools there to automatically send a link to your Journal to all of your friends, your e-mail address book, etc.

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How do I Add Links to My Journal Entries?

When you are adding a new Journal entry you'll see a series of icons just above the text entry box that look like this:

Click the link icon and a box will pop up asking you to enter the address (URL) of the page or site you want to link to.

The link code will now be added to your post and the mouse cursor will be flashing between the two arrows.

Just add some text between the arrows - whatever you want the link to say i.e. "Click here" or "Here's my Journal entry". Whatever you type here will be the link text that appears underlined in blue.

Alternatively, you can highlight the text you want to link already in your post and then click the 'link' icon in the editor.

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How Do I Design My Page?

On Diddlyi you can express yourself freely by making your page look and feel however you want! Show your creative side and follow these steps:

1) Go to your Diddlyi Homepage

2) Under your Photo, click the ‘Theme’ link. This will bring you to the Appearance page. You can do many things on this page, including picking an already made theme, alter your page to your liking, or if you know HTML and CSS you can go to the Advanced Editor!

3) To pick a theme, you can browse through those listed and then click on the one that you like most. Alternatively, if you want to go back to the original Diddlyi Theme, you can click the ‘Apply Diddlyi’s Theme’ button under the theme gallery. Then, scroll down to the bottom of the Appearance page and click on the ‘Save’ button. And voila! A new theme!

4) To Customise your page or any theme that you have selected, go to the Theme Settings tab section on the Appearance page that you were on. You can play around with all these settings until you are happy with the look of your page. There is even a preview of what your page will look like on the right hand side. Don’t be afraid to be creative – I promise you won’t break anything! When you are ready, just click ‘Save’.

5) If you are an advanced user and know how CSS and HTML works, you can go to the ‘Advanced’ tab on the appearance page. There, you can add in additional CSS and alter the CSS that is already there. I recommend you use Firebug for Firefox to explore the structure of your page as you work. And the click ‘Save’!

Or you can proudly stick with the original Diddlyi design!

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List and Manage Your Event

You now have the complete answer to running your Feis, Session, Concert, Festival or other Traditional Irish Event on Diddlyi.com Events.

It’s easy.

Up until now, organising Events has been very difficult. Especially when you are trying to reach a globally dispersed audience of Traditional Irish Enthusiasts. Now this has changed. Diddlyi.com Events is a new and cutting-edge way of organising your Event. It allows you to promote to 100,000’s locally and worldwide – all without any hassle.

It’s unique.

Diddlyi.com Events provides you with an amazing and unique way of promoting your event. Plus managing all those invites and crowds – all from the comfort of your own Event Page. You can send out invites, find out who is coming, answer questions and a whole lot more.

You get more and a guarantee.

Diddlyi.com Events is perfect for you who want to keep their costs down. Rival services for posting events can cost you over a 100 Euros. Diddlyi.com Events does not charge you anything and gives you much more than anyone else. You are guaranteed to become more effective and efficient in organising your event using our Invite and RSVPing system and our Live and Interactive Comment Wall on your very own Event Page.

Use Diddlyi.com Events today! Visit www.diddlyi.com/events to View or Add Events!

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