How it Works

This is a work in progress and will be updated as needed.

1. Subscribe

Once payment has been recieved and you have confirmed your account login to The Buddies.

You will be directed to the main Buddies page which lists all the Buddies and various modules illustrating what's happening with the site.
If this is your first time you might want to update your profile by adding a description about your business and an avatar/photo/logo if you didn't do this at registration.

To update your profile click on PROFILE button this will direct you to your profile when you are logged in you will see at the top of your profile page a series of buttons.
Roll over the edit button and click edit profile. Fill in the blank fields you feel are necessary for your profile and click save.

Rollover edit again and this time click on update your image. You can either choose one of the images available or upload your own. If you choose to upload your own the image will be resized by the website to the following dimensions. 500px High x 200px Width and image file size cannot be more than 2000 kb (2MB).

2.Gallery

When logged into the site you will see on your page in the Gallery Tab an upload now button.
Clicking on this will take your gallery it's here that you can create Albums and upload photos to those Albums. Please note you have to create an Album before you can upload photos.

Click on the Create Photo Album in the top right corner.

Enter a name for your Album

Location is for displaying information where the picture was taken (this can be left blank if you wish)

Write a description of the Album. You can choose to have the Album Private (ie only viewable by you) or Friends(Connections) or Friends of Friends, or Public.

When the Album is saved you will be given the option to upload photos to the Album.

The gallery allows you to batch upload. To do this Browse to the Folder which holds your imagesand select all or ctrl+click to select individually, Click upload.

You will see the bars indicating upload is in progress. Thumbnails of your images will appear when completed.

Once uploaded you can give each of your images a description by clicking the edit photo link in the album section.

3. Adding an event

As a Buddy you are able to add an event.
When you are logged in you will see a user menu at the top of the page, within this menu you can add an event  and a venue.

Create a venue first, within the Venue panel you can add address, times and map link if you wish you can upload a photo of the venue.

Once you have created your venue you can add your event.
At the add venue field click the select button in the window that pops up you will find the venue you entered - click on it
your venue will now be in the field. Fill in the rest of the fields and save.

4. Clans

It is possible to create clans to invite others to join.

5. Invite