F.A.Q.

Modifying your existing Account

1) First Log in.
2) Click on My Account from the Horizontal Menu or the left side Main Navigation Menu.
3) Click on Modify Account and you have a choice of changes and additions, change passwords, or other aspects of your private data.
4) By selecting Browse your Listing + Modify you can change or add to your existing page's text and pictures, You can also extend the time of your listing.
5) With Place an Ad you can add new or different listings and items.
6) Back to the main My Account section (which you can click on at any time) you will see other aspects, like Favorites (select this when you are on another user's page which you want to return to later). Or send an internal message to someone on the site -- or look at the messages someone (from the site or a customer viewing your pages) may have sent you.
7) ADDING / REVISING AN IMAGE can be done at the Browse your Listing selection above. Click on Modify to open the listing. Then, simply click on the Modify Images button below your existing pictures and the part of the site will open up for you.
8) Remember to click on the SUBMIT button when you are done otherwise your changed will not be Saved!

Adding Images which best display your Services and Products

For all Showcase pix which appear on the Front page (usually the first one you upload) it is best to select as close to a square proportioned pix as possible. The program resizes your pictures to fit a standard selected as an average fit for everyone. Long, "Landscape" type pix can show up distorted otherwise, and are best used for you web page where many sized images can be shown to your best advantage. A good example of this is "Bandito for Sheriff". See his Showcase picture and then the wider, landscape pix on his page. Another good example would be the Sunland Farmers Market.

Image Upload Limitations:
TYPE: GIF,JPG,JPEG,BMP,PNG
SIZE: Width: 900 Length 700 pixels
QUALITY: 80
WEIGHT: 1.5 MB

If your image gets rejected it is because of not conforming to one of the criteria above.

Need to Re-Size your Images to upload?

http://www.imageoptimizer.net/Home.aspx

What is a Domain? A Sub-Domain? What is a URL?

A URL is the entire internet address of some general residence, in the universe of the Internet. "Earth, U.S., California, Los Angeles, Sunland-Tujunga" would be an example of our URL address in the Solar System. Computers read the numbers associated with these names while humans only know the single name: "http://www.sunland-tujunga.com"

A Domain Name is a particular residence name which is usually a part of the URL: "sunland-tujunga.com" These names are assigned an numeric address in the vast switching system called the Internet.

A Sub-Domain is like an ante-room off the main Chamber or large room which is the domain itself, to which we give a special purpose or function. This "ante-room" can also be given properties to act like a domain itself, but that's a different story. For example, http://calendar.sunland.biz will bring someone to look at our new community calendar currently being developed. Another example: Blogs are usually their own sub-domains. To recognize a sub-doman you will see a "." before the domain name itself. (www is the most common, i.e, the world wide web)

How will we promote the site so people will see your ads and come to visit or buy something?

First of all, Sunland-Tujunga.com is not just another internet site with simple boring uninteresting webpages or lists of businesses, which hardly anyone visits. These types serve their purpose, an address or phone number and not much more. And they do very little. The difference with us is that we ARE the community looking at its own members and its own businesses -- who have a chance to put up lots of photos of who we are, in person. It is suggested that Businesses, when signing up, select inviting potential customers to print out their ad page and bring it in for a special discount. Either that or select "mention the site..." when coming in. It helps to offer a small discount or some item to thank them.

Sunland-Tujunga.com also as its own internal (private) email system where anyone can speak directly to others, ask questions of organizations and businesses, get responses. We are a special community of very special events -- except when a dog runs for Mayor and internmational Press comes from as far as Japan to get a glimpse of us.

We will always be looking to promote our Site(s) to all the Foothills communities, by flyers, community events, newspaper ads, and otherwise.

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What is the difference between an email address and an email account?

Our email accounts all you to receive emails with storage and / or attachments up to 100 Megabytes per account. An email address only forwards to another account, which often have very stringent storage space limitations. You can of course choose to have your new email address forwarded to your existing one.

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You have so many domain names. Why do you need them all?

Each domain represents a "door" into the main community room-site, which is really looked at by the population of each area it serves. It is the equivalent of having 15 different computers, but added to by each one. The benefit to the merchant is that he is discovered in all the areas mentioned, instead of a single area which he would normally get for basic promotion or marraige mail. So 15X the potential coverage, but for the same price as a single area. Additionally, each different domain name registers increased traffic from Google and keyword searches from the Internet and surrounding Cities.

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