Photo and Video albums are very easy to create.  First you need to click on the MY Photo Albums link on your menu to the left.  Then click on "Add New Photo Album". 

In the form, give your photo album a title / name.  Then Type the author.  Next set the Default Permissions (this will determine who is allowed to see your pictures and videos).  Next, type a description for this photo album.  It could be a trip you took, a car or boat you're selling, a funny thing that happened or whatever.  Then save your album information.

Now, for the whichever album you wish to add pictures to, Click the "Add Multi Photos Form" link.  A separate Popup like window will appear with your title and description in it on the left side.  On the right side, a Java Applet will open which will allow you to select either full directories/folders or many individual files.  You can select up to 100 mb of pictures in a single upload.  The Java Applet will resize all the pictures on your computer and then upload them to the server.  Wait for it to complete on it's own.  Do not close the window.  You can leave it working in the background while doing other things.  Upon completion, it will most likely say, Document Contains No Data.  This means it worked!  At this point, if you want to add more pictures to the same album, you can select and send more pictures. 

Close the window, click on the My Photo Albums link to refresh the My Photo Albums page.  You should see your pictures appear here.

You probably wanted to see what would happen if you typed in our domain name with /NickName/ attached to the end of it.  Well, yep you guessed it!  You wound up here at our System Example MySite Page.  If you have a nickname or a boat name or some other kind of identifying name that is special to you, it can now be a part of how your friends find your pages within our system.  Any nickname you choose, will work with all of the Hot Media Deals websites.  All you need to do is open your preferences page in all the websites you want to be found in. 

Each of the different websites can have different albums, photos, videos and pages specific to each site.  So get creative! 

With our built in HTML editor, you can arrainge your pages with tables, and many other HTML elements.

If you need any special images to put on your pages, they also can be hosted here as well.  Just click the image list link above the editor and it will load all your images with the full url path included.  You then click the insert image link on the toolbar, paste the image address into the URL field, set the width and height, and then click OK.  You're done putting in your own images!

Want a smiley face on your pages?    There is a smiley button on the toolbar which you can use to put up as many smiley's as you need.  We're sure that you'll find the HTML Editor More than Helpfull to building your pages!

Have Fun!

Video Uploads are very simple.  Just click on the Upload my Video link at the top right of the My Videos page (when you're logged in).  A Small window should appear with a flash form.  Click Browse, select your movie file, and click upload. 

Watch the progress bar on your page.  When it is finished uploading, it will process your video into our system.  DO NOT CLOSE the window!   When you see the form to upload another video re-appear, the process is done!  If you have more videos to upload, select another video and start uploading it.

While the uploads window is working, you can go and work in other parts of the site.  Including the My Videos page.  Here you can select any video from your list and set file permissions, access groups, content rating, video category, as well as the title and description.  Click save and, it's done!