HELP! Using RBY
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ReBuildingYou
Come B.A.C.K Faster and Stronger
Build. Attitude. Coaching. Knowledge
Build a Community… Attitude for Life…
Coaching Helps It Happen… Knowledge Is Power…
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
AS OF JANUARY 1ST 2009 THIS PAGE NEEDS COMPLETELY REWRITING...
Within a few days I will have it done.
Welcome to the best website that will reconnect you to your life after trauma.
ReBuildingYou.com (RBY) uses technology and the internet to be your assistant so that it can remember, remind, research and inform you where to go next for the most efficient recovery...
RBY will also reintroduce you to all of your own beautiful colours!
I will explain about the Login process and describe all the buttons and links that you will find on the main RBY Homepage, starting at the top left and moving across to the right – same direction as reading. Then I will go back to the next row, starting on the left and move across to the right again.
I’ll start with a brief description here of what links and words you will see on the Homepage and where they will take you.
If you are new to the Internet, learning to use this website may also enable you to
find your way around other websites more easily…
Let’s begin with the Home page…
The individual coloured people ‘holding hands’ to the right of the main heading can each be ‘clicked’ on – we are adding more articles and information daily...
- The red person will take you to the emotional rebuilding articles
- The blue person will take you to the physical rebuilding articles
- The yellow-gold person will take you to the rebuilding joy articles
- The purple person will take you to the cognitive rebuilding articles
- The green person will take you to the financial rebuilding articles
Buttons on the Top Navigation Bar; Reading Left to Right:
- Home - ReBuildingYou Home Page
- Village Forum - Join our Community for FREE!
- Directory – search by your town or type of therapy
- Therapies – each therapy explained by an expert (and experienced by a client)
- Diagnoses – diagnoses explained by an expert (and experienced by a survivor)
- Coaching – personal and individual coaching available by email/PayPal
- Free Downloads – this is where you’ll find your free gifts…
- Dating – a special dating site for the disabled
- Contact – a quick form so you can connect with us – we love to hear from you and will try to reply within 24 hours
- F.A.Q – Frequently Asked Questions (which will be added to as you ask new questions!)
Underneath the Home button is a word (sometimes several words) telling you where you are on the site… (Like a ‘you are here’ red star marking the spot where you’re standing on one of those mall maps…)
Some of the articles, diagnoses and therapies are not available yet: we are working as fast as possible to bring this information to you. If you have an experience that you’d like to share, please use the Contact Form and email me. That would be really helpful and I would love to hear from you…
- Login button: If you are new to RBY, there is an icon on the far right with a little green + sign… Click here… Joining ReBuildingYou is quick and easy: there’s no credit card required and there’s never any cost involved in villagership. Become a Founding Villager before June 2009 - …. We ask only for your name, for you to choose a unique Username, enter your email address just once and choose a password and enter it twice… That’s it. We will send you our newsletter (about once a month) – that’s it. And you have my word that we will never sell or give out your private information.
- Existing villagers put their Username in the first box, their password in the second box and then click on the Login button.
- If you forget your Password, click on the little icon of a key? button.
- If you forget your Username click on the little icon of a head? button.
TIPS:
- Any time while you are moving your cursor around and you see it turn into a finger, you can click for more detail about that word. Also, whenever you see a little coloured person logo - or the words ‘click here’ in blue - click there and get more detail.
- By holding your cursor over words or a picture (hovering) - on any website - you can see if the cursor changes from an arrow into the image of a pointing finger. If it does, it means you can then click that word or image and it will take you to more ‘of that’ information...
- By holding your cursor over words or a picture - on any website - you can also see if text appears that tells you more about those words or picture, without your having to click…
- If you end up in a place where you don’t want to be, go to the button ‘Home’ in blue at the top left under the ReBuildingYou Logo on each page and this will take you back to the homepage.
- Alternatively click on the green arrow at the top left of your screen and it will retrace your steps, one page at a time. These tips work for most websites.
- On the right, under the five coloured people logos and the rows of buttons, there’s another button where you can logout of the ReBuildingYou website. Next to the logout button there are a couple of words welcoming you personally to browse…
Back to a tour of the ReBuildingYou – RBY – main Homepage…
- Next, on the far left at the top of the next section with a blue background, you’ll find a clock – so you can always know what day and time it is. A day/date/month calendar too will be there as soon as we can find one…
- Under that clock is a box marked Search - If you want to find any articles or information about, say, ‘anger you can type the word anger in the box and click on the RBY Search button. Results: A list of pages that include the word ‘anger’ will appear and you can go to any of those pages by clicking on them. You can also add a therapist’s name or type of therapy and check out the directory entries directly.
- Moving over to the right, there’s a box Welcome to ReBuildingYou, with a short description of what the site is about… (This changes daily as I try to find the right words to describe what we do…)
- Next, moving to the right, there’s a box that will connect you straight to me for Individual Coaching. Celebrate the launch of RBY with us and save 40% until June 1st 2009 for this useful service!
- On the far left, going down the page vertically, you will find the Main Menu. The links down the left hand side are often duplicates of the buttons on the top navigation bar. You can access the RBY SearchDirectory by location (your town), or Directory by therapy (types of therapy). You can reach the Articles pages here - also accessed by clicking on the coloured people logos at the very top of the page. There is a direct link to Therapies (description) and Diagnoses (description) and to Individual Coaching, FREE Downloads and Special Dating (with many thousands of members worldwide with disabilities who would rather not use a general dating site). feature, search the
- Next you will see a box titled ‘Help Is At Hand - with a photo of 4 hands - which gives more information about what’s in the ReBuildingYou website and also offers you another way of accessing the Directory, Community (forum), Information (articles), Therapies (details of types of therapy available), Diagnosesand experienced), Village Crier (latest news, advocacy and reviews) and Village Market (find you FREE downloads here) (explained
- On the right is an image of pills… Endless pills – which are often traditional medicine’s only way of treating us. For me I found there was a time when I absolutely needed traditional medicine – during the acute stage of my diagnosis. Once the crisis was over though I needed so much more: I needed a little of most of the modalities described here and I needed to balance them simultaneously… Clicking on this image will also take you to diagnoses and therapies explained and experienced - if your diagnosis is not listed, please email me – we might be able to arrange for you to be the author of a new article.
- Back to the left again you will see another vertical list General Menu with duplicate links to the Village Forum, F.A.Q’s, Contact Us, HELP! Using RBY (this page!), RBY Privacy Policy, and Testimonials.
- There is also a User Menu with a link to your personal homepage and a button to Logout (There is another Logout button at the top right hand side of the page under the F.A.Q button) Logging out at the end of a session means that no-one can access your account and so it’s a good habit to logout of each session.
On the left after the Menu:
A globe surrounded by happy therapists of many colours! This is the Directory and if you click on it you will go to the main Directory page.
- There is also a button for Therapists – Register now – it’s only FREE to advertise with RBY until Nov 30th 2008…
- If you are a ReBuilder (survivor, client, caregiver or patient) you can access the listings – always for FREE – on RBY.
Next box on right – Colour Me Human:
Colour Me Human is the name of a song written by the brilliant Eric Dozier about the magic of a diverse society and I borrowed these words because they also describe exactly what I have found to be true for individuals. We are made up of different - but all equally important - elements and success and peace are reached only when all of these 5 elements are attended to simultaneously.
Colour Me Human begins to explain ReBuildingYou’s unique approach to rebuilding your life – strategies that actually work. You can click on any one of the little coloured people icons and go to the section of the website that deals with that particular element/colour.
You can change the bullets below for the single red, blue etc logos if you like? I think it might look better…
- The red logo represents our emotional needs, including our need for community and includes everything that makes up our mental health…
- The blue logo represents our physical needs and includes nutrition, vitamins, exercise, care of our bodies and all things physical…
- The yellow-gold logo represents our need for joy which is vital and irreplaceable and feeds our very souls. Here are some ideas to uncover your own joy…
- The purple logo represents our cognitive needs - including our educational needs – and includes getting our brains to work as well as possible and sharing our knowledge so that we can rise above our challenges
- The green logo represents our financial needs and includes every single ‘money’ aspect that supports our life
Sometime during 2008 I will record audio clips of many of the pages, including this help page as I want very much to connect with as many people as possible, including those that don’t enjoy long text. (If you could read a page or two for me and send me the file, that would be awesome… I could really use the help.
At the very end of the page – on most pages – is a disclaimer statement, urging you to speak with your own doctor about anything that you learn on this website. This is really important. ReBuildingYou is an invaluable resource which will make you aware of various strategies you could use to rebuild your health. Take these ideas and strategies to your doctor or therapist and customize them for you. We are not doctors and whilst we take every precaution to represent accurately what we find, the ultimate responsibility remains with you to seek confirmation of any fact with your own doctor.
By bringing the latest information to your own doctor you will be helping him or her to help you more effectively. Good luck!
First you have to be able to use this website. It’s not easy to create a website that works for everyone. So… if there is something that you wish was different, please let me know… Your ideas could benefit many – and it will help me to continue improving our service.
It’s very important to me that this website is very user friendly!
I hope you enjoy your visit – I would appreciate it if you would let me know how your experience was – on our Contact Us form!