by
hardnova
Published:
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 1:24:40 PM
Lesson 4: Choosing The Privacy Level Of Your Free Site.
You can select one of four (4) different PRIVACY settings for your website and they are useful for different reasons. Below you will find explanations for the various settings.
I would like my website to:
1. be Public (content available to everyone)
This means that there is NO security on your website and ALL your content is visible to ANYONE who chooses to look at it. No registration is possible and you will NOT see any new users added to your site if you check your User Management area. |
2. be Private (access by invitation only)
This means that MAXIMUM security is set on your site and NONE of your content other than you Login area content is visible to ANYONE. You will need to manually add each and every user to your site using an email address. Your site will then automatically send an invitation containing the users USERNAME and PASSWORD to them. You will then see all users in your User Management area. You will be able to message these users from within your User Management area. |
3. require Registrations (users are automatically approved)
This means that there is NO security on your website and ALL your content is visible to ANYONE who chooses to look at it. No registration is possible and you will NOT see any new users added to your site if you check your User Management area. Your site will then automatically send an invitation containing the users USERNAME and PASSWORD to them. You will then see all users in your User Management area. You will be able to message these users from within your User Management area. |
4. require Registrations (I must approve all users)
This means that MAXIMUM security is set on your site and NONE of your content other than you Login area content is visible to ANYONE. You will need to manually approve each and every user who registers to your site using by using the User Management area. Your site will then automatically send your user a notification that their account is now active and they can use your site. You will see all your sign ups in your User Management area. You will be able to message these users from within your User Management area. |
NOTE: Users on your website each have a profile that includes, an about me /description, photo and some demographical information like sex and location, in addition to this you can add a note to each profile that the user will not see.
NOTE: Users can not communicate with each other directly but may communicate by using comments and following conversations on your site.