FAQ Index

Dear Members,

In an effort to make navigation within our Forums easier, we have created this FAQ index. Hope this helps you in finding answers to your questions easier. Please ask Induslady if you have any questions that is not in the following FAQs. We will get it added.

Please scroll down to the subsequent posts for FAQs on Blog and Directory.

Thank you.

Top 10 - FAQs

How to Register?
How to Activate Registration?
How to post response in an existing discussion?
How to post a new discussion?
My post is missing?
How to edit my post?
How to delete my post?
I forgot my username/password. How to retreive / reset it?
How to blog?
Why some of my posts are not counted towards my post counts?
How to add reputation to members for their helpful & friendly posts?

Forum FAQs

General Questions
What makes Indusladies.com special?
How to introduce a friend/relative?
How to get an IL Cap for FREE?
How to get an IL T-shirt for FREE?
How can I recommend a discussion to my friend?
Can anyone visiting the site see the pictures posted here?
What are New, Junior, Gold, Platinum members?
Usernames have different colors - Green, Blue and Orange. Why?
Why my quereis are not getting answered?
Why my posts are not getting responses?

Login & Passwords
How can I be always logged-in in Indusladies site?
I am not able to logout of the site?
I forgot my password, what can I do?
How can I change my password?

Registration
Why should I Register?
How can I register?
My name appears in yellow after registration. Why?
I am a male. Can I join this community?
What if I give a fake email ID during registration?
Can I give my email ID as login ID?
Will I get SPAM if I sign up?
How can I change my existing username?

Activation Of Registration
How to activate my registration?
I have not received my activation email. Why?
I am unable to activate my registration as I gave a non-existent email id. Help!
How to Resend Activation Mail?

Forum Guidelines & policies
Did you read the Forum Etiquette?
Can I post soft copy of a book?
Can I post messages that promote my site or product or company?
Can we post contents taken from other sites?
Is discussion about sex not allowed in IL?
My copyrighted content is posted illegally in IL. What should I do?

Questions related to Member Status Changes
Why I am not able send/receive private messages?
Why I am not able to view attachments in the IL'ite Meet-ups forum?
Why there is a difference in post count?
I am a Junior IL'ite, but have issues accessing private message. Why?
I am a Senior IL'ite, but have issues accessing private message. Why?
Are my posts missing? Why I am seeing only upto 500 posts in my profile?
Tried starting a new thread and got the error - "Invalid thread specified and if you have followed a valid link..."?
My message with an external site link did not get posted. Why?


Finding things
How do I see only the messages since my last visit?
How do I find people living in my city?
My post is missing?
My thread is missing?
Where is the New Member Area?
Where is the Who am I? thread?
Search before you ask!
Where is the Forum Etiquette?
Where is Chitvish's Recipe Index?

Advertisements
Why am I seeing advertisements in few areas of this site?
Who decides the ads that are displayed on the threads?
How are the Google advertisements chosen?
What if I find a Google advertisement inappropriate?
Why are some words underlined in green/blue?
Is Indusladies.com a non-profit organization?
How can I advertise in Indusladies.com?

Participation "How-To"
How can I post a response?
How can I start a new thread?
How do I if someone responded to the discussion thread I started or the post I made?
How can I start a poll?
How can I make friends here?
How do I add a picture to my message?
How can I add an attachment to my post?
How do I add a "Link" in my message?
How do I create a link to an existing message in IL?
How do I edit my post?
How do you rate members' threads here?
How do I delete a post or thread?
How can I avoid getting SPAM?
How can I report a post?
I want to share jokes and forwards. Where do I do it?
How / When do I quote another member's post in my reply?
What is Multi-Quote?
How can I edit the title of a thread?
Can I add a video as attachment?
How to make thread title in bold letters?
How to refer our friends to IndusLadies Community?
How to track the referrals I got to IndusLadies Community?
How to find the names of referrals I got to IndusLadies Community?
How to post in Tamil Font?
How to post in any Indian Regional Language?
How to view posts written in Hindi?
How to view posts written in Telugu?
How to view posts written in Malayalam?


Posting Issues
I have registered, but I am not able to post. Why?
I am able to login, but I am not able to post a reply. Why?
I lost my draft message! How to retrieve it?
"<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]-->" I found these unwanted characters in my message. Why?

Private Message/Chat
How do I access my private message?
How do I send a private message?
Can I chat online with other members?
I am able to send only one private message every 60 seconds. Why?
How do I delete private messages from my inbox / sent items?
My private messages inbox is full. What can I do?
I am unable to respond to a private message. Why?
Do NOT respond to automatic email notifications sent from the site
Email notification about Private Message received is NOT showing the actual message.Where to read it?

Subscriptions
How can I subscribe to a Forum?
How can I subscribe to a Thread?
How can I get notified when someone responds to a thread of my interest?
How do I unsubscribe to email notifications?
How do I cancel my membership / subscription?
Emails from IndusLadies goes to Junk / Spam / Bulk mail folder. What should I do?

Personal Settings
How can I change my existing user name?
How can I add a signature for my messages?
How can I add a link in my signature?
How can I update the email address on my profile?
How can I update country name?
How can I update the information on my profile?
How do I add an "Avatar"? - Standard / Custom avatar.
How to upload pictures to my public/ private albums?
How to add background images to your profile page?

Forum Settings
The site every time opens as logged in by an earlier used user's name...
Why is the time shown on threads and messages not my local time?
How can I update the time shown in threads and messages to my local time?
When I go into a thread, the last message shows up first. How can I reverse this?
How can I setup the threads to list messages from old to new?
Why do I see a green glow next to my Username in my postings?
Do not respond to automatic email notifications sent from the site
Can I add Yahoo or MSN or Skype ID in my profile?
Why some threads appear in bold?

Dear Members,

In an effort to make navigation within our Blog section easier, we have created this Blog FAQs index. Hope this helps you in finding answers to your questions easier. Please ask Induslady if you have any questions regarding blogging that is not in the following FAQs. We will get it added. Thank you.


Blog FAQs

Starting a Blog
I want to to start a blog here

Finding Blogs
How to find the list of Bloggers in IL?

Reading Blogs
How can I subscribe to a blog?
How to rate blogs that I read?

Writing Blogs
How to go to my blog?
How to give a title and description for my entire blogspace?
How to post my writing as a blog entry?
Can I save blog entries as draft prior to publishing?
How to publish a draft blog entry?
How do I delete a spam posted as comment in my blog?

Dear Members,

In an effort to make navigation within our Directory Listings section easier, we have created this Directory FAQs index. Hope this helps you in finding answers to your questions easier. Please ask Induslady if you have any questions regarding directory listing that is not in the following FAQs. We will get it added. Thank you.


Directory FAQs

General Questions
Who is my local champion?
I own a business. How do I add my business to IL Directory?

Adding Entries
How can I add an entry in IL Directory?
I need my city added to IL Directory
How can I add a sub-category within my city?
What entries can I add to the IL Directory?
How can I add ratings and reviews to an existing entry?
What are the Directory Sub-Categories that I can add within my city?