Welcome to BBQ Pages
A quick overview
BBQ Pages is a "Social Networking" site that has been designed with the barbecue community in mind. We have tried to include some features that a lot of your will be familiar with. At the same time we have engineered some user friendly features, that will be attractive for new users, to this type of web site. Without a doubt, our aim from the beginning has been to build a site that will enable groups or people that frequent the many barbecue forums everywhere to communicate with each other. We hope to be able to unite all the many groups of the BBQ Community and aid in helping you form new friendships.
Here how it works
BBQ Pages allows individuals interested in barbecue to create their own, FREE, individual, and secure web pages and then invite their friends to communicate with them. If you want to, you can restrict others access to you and allow only your friends to communicate with you. If you want a more open type of environment that allows the public access to some of the information on your page, your can do so. It's up to you how you structure, others access to you.
Setting up "Your Page"
This "Your Page," and get connected simply click on the "Join us now, it's free button." you will be prompted to enter your information which consists of your name, username, e-mail, password, and a place to verify your password. Then quickly review the terms and conditions and check that you have read and agree to the terms of conditions of BBQ Pages.com. Then click the next button to get things started. You will be sent e-mail to which you have to reply to in order to validate your e-mail address and then you can sign in.
If you have a Facebook account you can select the "Connect with Facebook" link and this will allow you to make a connection with your Facebook account and so when you login to BBQ pages you're logging in to Facebook at the same time. This is something that can be very convenient, because once the Facebook connections been setup all you have to do is click the blue button connect with Facebook and you login to both accounts at same time. Also connecting with Facebook it allows you to connect BBQ pages with Facebook and interact with your friends on this site and to share on Facebook through your wall and friends new feeds.
Once your logged in to "Your Page" you need to set up your profile, your privacy settings and your preferences
Acquiring your groups of friends
You assemble your groups of friends by sending an invitation to them using
the built in feature of BBQ Pages. Once your invitation has been emailed
to your potential friends they have the opportunity to accept or reject your
invitation. Your able to keep track of the requests that you have sent out
and then approve the replies as they are returned to you.
You can also use the "search and advanced search" features of BBQ Pages to located friends that have already signed up on BBQ Pages.
If you do want to maintain separate groups of your friends, you can set up separate groups of your friends. There are several ways you can communicate with your friends using BBQ Pages. One of the most common avenues of communication is to use the "Wall ." When you post a message to the wall it goes to all the people that your have chosen as your friends.
Setting up your applications
The applications tab on your page allow you to choose the applications that you're using it also set up groups you can insert photos and videos off of this menu.
The e-mail tab allows you to write and send out and received e-mails from your friends list using BBQ pages
Blog
The blog tab allows you to write articles that you can share with your friends on the BBQ pages. It's a simple blog but it can be a lot of fun and help you communicate ideas that are just too big for posting on the wall or maybe an article that you don't want to send individually by email. The blog can be a real nice little tool to share information with your friends
Video Tutorials
We have prepared a series of short videos to help you navigate the many areas of BBQ Pages. All of the videos are very short and concise You can access these videos by using the tab on the top menu, of every page you visit on BBQ Pages. The videos will open in a separate browser window so you don't have to leave BBQ Pages while your viewing the videos.
Onlline Games
Do you like to play games. Well we've assembled a group of online games that you can play. You can find these games in the main menu across the top of every page on BBQ pages by just clicking on the online game tab. Some of these games can quickly be accessed if you have a Facebook account and have logged on using the "Facebook Connect" feature a barbecue pages.
A Google Map for your Friends
Can you believe it. When someone becomes what your friends on property pages, something nice happens. Your friends are all listed on a Google map and each new friend is represented by a pin in the map. So you can see where your friends are all around the world this is a feature you probably have always wanted but didn't quite know you wanted.
Link your favorite videos
On the BBQ pages, it's easy to link your favorite video to your profile page. Your videos can be stored on any number of websites and all you have to do is tell your friends can see your video. Nothing could be easier than this. That's what we have tried to do, we have tried to give you a nice user-friendly interface to work with.
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Tweeter Up Dates
Are you a twitter user? Well, you're going to love BBQ pages because on your profile page, your latest Tweeter updates will appear for all your friends to see. If you're not using twitter, you probably should because Tweeter is a wonderful way to get your message out, whether in business or just have a hobby that you want to talk to people about. Or maybe, you just want to tell people what you're doing. This feature BBQ pages is something you won't find on other social networking sites, nobody else has twitter updates. This is just one more reason to spend a lot of time at BBQ pages. We worked hard to bring you more and make social networking more fun.
Up Load your pictures
You can upload it on ton, up pictures for your friends to see. Then, you can organize them in a whole bunch, of picture albums. To make things even better when your friends view your pictures in your albums, a larger image opens up in a modern shadowbox. Makes your pictures look real good.
BBQ Pages Q&A
Questions and answers allows registered users to ask questions about barbecues problems and have friends and other users to answer the questions. Then the person who asked the question can review the answers and select the best ones. Then everyone can search and find these questions and view the answers.
Invite Friends
BBQ Pages has installed a feature that allows registered users to invite their new friend to join them in using this web site. The feature works quite well and is very flexible. It can be used to invite one or more person to join with them on BBQ Pages. It can be used to download and upload these invitations to and from other social networking sites.
