I believe all the pieces are now in place to implement this. First off I want to thank everyone in advance for even thinking about doing this. I really appreciate the offers of help I have gotten and the thoughtfullness from people willing to help with this site in so many aspects.
THANK YOU!!
To help some along who may want to participate in this project, I have done some screen shots of the pertinent pages and marked the images to help point out those options needed in order to make this work. So follow along with me....
I think I've about covered everything. Well, most everything I guess. I did make up a chart of the few optionals I am able to grant contributing members, so perhaps that is best put here for you all to see:
[tr][td]_[/td][td]Visitor/Guest/Not logged in[/td][td]Registered member[/td][td]Contributor 1[/td][td]Contributor 2[/td][td]Sponsor[/td][/tr][tr][td]Icon[/td][td]None[/td][td]None[/td][td]
There really wasn't much to pick from on optionals, since I basically gave everything away for free right off the bat. But I was able to tweak a few things.
One other perk not mentioned here that I am toying around with is a special forum available only to contributing members and sponsors. Kind of a Insiders Club or a Guidance Counsel sort of thing.
Anyway, that's it in a nutshell. Any questions of concerns, please contact me about them.
Again, thanks to you all for all of your help with this site. I really do appreciate what you have done here.
Addendum added 09/30/07 -
DUH! It finally dawned on me that most people here may not have a PayPal account. I'm used to running sites composed of people mostly in business and nearly all of them do. A number of people have already asked me about me mail address to send a check or money order, so I guess I should put that here for reference.
Rich Zuchowski
P.O. Box 7547
Tallahassee, FL 32314
Please make it out to me name, as I haven't set up a CorvetteFlorida account with my banks. And please enclose a note with your member name here identified so I will apply the contribution to the correct member.
Thanks!
THANK YOU!!
To help some along who may want to participate in this project, I have done some screen shots of the pertinent pages and marked the images to help point out those options needed in order to make this work. So follow along with me....
- The two levels of contributor memberships (Silver & Gold) can be found on the Paid Subscriptions page on this site. Finding that page is not all that easy, (which I will try to change for the better when I can), so here's the steps to get there and what to do once you do.
- Near the top of the page, you will see a menu bar with the text "UserCP" at the left hand end of the bar. White lettering on the reddish bar.
Click on that text to take you to the UserCP menu. - When the UserCP menu is displayed, you will see an option close to the bottom of the list that says "Paid Subscriptions".
Click on that option in the menu. - The Paid Subscriptions page will then display, showing you all the options for both Contributing Memberships, as well as the Sponsor Options available.
The ones a regular member will be interested in to participate in the Contributions options will be the top two. One being the Silver Membership, and the other the Gold Membership.
- From this page you can select which membership level you are interested in, as well as which payment plan you wish to utilize. For the Silver membership, the contribution options are:
- 1 year - $25
- 2 years - $50
- 3 years - $75
For the Gold Memberships, the contribution options are:- 1 year - $100
- 2 years - $175
- 3 years - $250
These options are selectd from a menu to the right of each of the membership levels on the Paid Subscriptions page.
You simply click on that down arrow to display the options, then click on the one you wish to select.
Once you have the option selected, you then click on the Order button.
- When you click on the Order button, that takes you to a new display giving you a rundown on what you have selected, and shows you the payment options. At this time, only PayPal is available, but if someone does not have a PayPal account, please private messaage me about an alternate means to forward payment to me.
- If everything looks OK at that point, click on the button "Order Using PayPal". That will then take you to a PayPal page where you need to log in to your PayPal account to complete the process.
- If your PayPal payment is an eCheck, bear in mind that it will take about 4 business days before the payment actually clears PayPal, which then sends a notice to this site to activate your membership.
I think I've about covered everything. Well, most everything I guess. I did make up a chart of the few optionals I am able to grant contributing members, so perhaps that is best put here for you all to see:
There really wasn't much to pick from on optionals, since I basically gave everything away for free right off the bat. But I was able to tweak a few things.
One other perk not mentioned here that I am toying around with is a special forum available only to contributing members and sponsors. Kind of a Insiders Club or a Guidance Counsel sort of thing.
Anyway, that's it in a nutshell. Any questions of concerns, please contact me about them.
Again, thanks to you all for all of your help with this site. I really do appreciate what you have done here.
Addendum added 09/30/07 -
DUH! It finally dawned on me that most people here may not have a PayPal account. I'm used to running sites composed of people mostly in business and nearly all of them do. A number of people have already asked me about me mail address to send a check or money order, so I guess I should put that here for reference.
Rich Zuchowski
P.O. Box 7547
Tallahassee, FL 32314
Please make it out to me name, as I haven't set up a CorvetteFlorida account with my banks. And please enclose a note with your member name here identified so I will apply the contribution to the correct member.
Thanks!
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