Creating a profile on the ACGA website is a great way to participate in the community and share your work with other members and clay and glass fans who look at our website. To set up a profile, you must be a dues-paying member of the ACGA. To register, go
Continue readingWant to share something with the other ACGA Members? It’s easy, post it to the Forum! First, make sure you are logged in: http://acga.net/login/ Don’t know your username? You can search for it here: http://acga.net/public/member-names-and-usernames/ Can’t find it or you are not registered? Email Whitney. Don’t know your password? Read this. Or
Continue readingYou did the work of logging into your profile, and updating it with images and information about yourself. A few days later you go back to look at it, and nothing! No pictures, no information about you there. What happened?! When you log into your profile the first time, there
Continue readingA feature has just been added which should allow you to get a digest of the posts that are made during the day to your email Inbox. In the Member Forum area is a new menu item for members only which allows you to submit your email for subscription to
Continue readingYou can change your password by first logging into your account. Once there, click the little gear icon next to your profile picture and click “my account” in the drop down menu. From there you click “change password” to change your password. You can also access your account by going
Continue readingGo to login. This is located under “Members” in the main menu. Enter your username and password. For most, your username is your first and last name together as one word. For collaborative teams it will usually be the two last names combined, and for teams with the same last
Continue readingFirst, login. This will take you to your profile page. Click the little gear icon on the right hand side, and click “edit profile” in the drop down menu. To add a profile picture, click on the camera in the circle to upload an image. This should be a picture
Continue readingACGA picks a few Events to list on the Events Shows and Exhibitions display. You cannot post directly to these. But you can post events where others can see them if you wish. One way is to put them into your Member Profile. I suggest doing that, because anyone looking
Continue readingI added a message just below the pictures in the Profile that only appears when you are making Profile changes or additions. It goes away once you successfully Update the Profile, but if the message doesn’t go away, you know that the Profile is not yet saved successfully. This makes
Continue readingWhen you are updating your Profile, especially the first time, you may not notice the mandatory fields. Some fields must be filled out or your Update Profile command will be rejected. Worse, you won’t see anything wrong unless you scroll down and look for a red error message. “I am
Continue readingWhile there was no automatic process we could set up to move your information on the old website (http://acga.net) to the new site (http://acga.net), while both sites are up simultaneously, you can copy information from the old to the new. Here’s how it works: 1. Open both sites up in
Continue readingIf you have a password problem, but your Profile email is correct, you have a way to get a link for a new password. The website may take a few minutes to send the link email, but this will work for any bad password. Try to log in, but instead
Continue readingThe ACGA website has an entire area devoted to your information, blogs, and events — the Member Forum. There you can place blogs that any member can see and comment upon. It allows you to add images to highlight your posting, and you can cut and paste most types of
Continue readingWhen updating your Profile, you may see a “Please enter a valid URL” on a website entry where you’re sure what you entered is valid! It wants a complete URL, beginning usually with “http://”. An example: http://www.methenysystems.com. If you get the error message, please check that the http header is
Continue readingMost information in your Profile can be changed with the Edit Profile drop-down from the gear icon on your summary page. However, e-mail is an exception. Under the same gear icon is a “My Account” option. That does allow you to change your e-mail. If you change your e-mail, please
Continue readingFor incoming members, the default password is: ACGAmember. Please change this soon so others do not know your password! Changes can be made by finding your Profile in Members, and clicking the little gear icon to the right of the portrait.
Continue readingThe core of your membership information is in your User Profile. Under Members, you can scan all the profiles. You can only update yours, however. The little gear icon on the right side of the Profile gives a drop-down menu of options you have. “Edit profile” takes you into the
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