The Official Guide to using the Londoncommons.net

This page is the starting point for help on using LondonCommons.net. Because it is of the content type "book" anyone with an account can edit this page, its "child" pages or add new child pages.

LondonCommons.net is a web application designed for community publishing, information sharing and organizing. Some of its popular tools have been available on the site for a couple of years now, such as blogs and the events calendar. Recently a whole suite of new tools have been added, with the existing tools getting some enhancements along the way.

LondonCommons.net Basics

LondonCommons.net is a free service provided by and for members of the London, Ontario community. When posting, there are a few basic things to remember:

• Using your real name as your username is required.
• Do not post advertisements. The only exception is for the events calendar, in which case you can advertise an event that costs money ONLY if it is not run by a corporation.
• Respect copyrights. If you post a creative work in its entirety that doesn't belong to you it will be deleted. The exceptions to this rule are if the creative work is available under a Creative Commons license, or if the work is in the public domain.
• Material that clearly intends to incite hatred will be deleted.
• This is a local site, the other users are your neighbours. Please try to be respectful in general.

Basic Technical Troubles

LondonCommons.net makes extensive use of modern web technologies. If you are having trouble accessing the website, signing in, or if everything looks distorted in some way there are a few things you can try.

"I signed up for an account but never got an email with my password!"

This sometimes happens to people who use Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail for their email account. Hotmail and Yahoo sometimes mistake email from our website as spam. If your welcome email has not arrived in your inbox, please check the spam or junk folder.

If the welcome email is not in your spam folder, you may need to sign up from a different email account (that isn't hosted by MSN or Yahoo). Google's GMail doesn't mark LondonCommons.net emails as spam. If you're still having trouble, you can email the moderators at info@londoncommons.net.

"Things don't look right on the site"

The site is designed to be as standards compliant as possible. If the site doesn't look right on your computer, you are probably using an old web browser.

The developers of the site use and recommend Mozilla Firefox. Firefox is a free web browser that is available Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The site should also look fine in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and Safari on the Mac, although not everything is guaranteed to work all the time in those browsers.