Q. Why should I register my organisation with OzEvents.Com?
Q. What benefits are there in being registered with OzEvents?
Q. How do I register?
Q. If I want to change the details of the organisation. How is this done?
Q. Is my information secure?
Q. How do I promote my sponsors on the site?
Q. How do I inform others of my presence on OzEvents?
Q. How does having an OzEvents web site help my business/organisation?
Q. How does my OzEvents web site help our members, customers?
Q. What about E-Commerce?
Q. What Are cookies?
Q. Can I turn cookies off?
Q. Can I include HTML codes in the body of my site?
Q. How do I include a link to an email address in my OzEvents Site?
Q. How do I include a link to another web site in my OzEvents Site?

Q. Why should I register my organisation with OzEvents.Com?

A. Registering with OzEvents is easy. We offer a reliable, up to date, fully functional web site at unbeatable value. In fact, you may find that there is already a web site created for your organisation that merely needs activating. You can literally be up and running in a manner of minutes.

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Q. What benefits are there in being registered with OzEvents?

A. Your organisation will have an immediate presence on the Internet via OzEvents. You will have a fully functional web site which can be accessed by members, prospective members, customers, or others that wish to find out more about your organisation. Your website will allow you to describe your organisation to visitors, create a members area, notify of forthcoming events, promote forthcoming events, provide competition result and promote your sponsors. You are also provided with a free web based email address where you can receive messages.

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Q. How do I register?

A. You register simply by clicking on the register button located on the home page. There is a series of simple questions regarding your organisation that need to be filled out and after confirmation of your details, your site is operational. It's that easy!.

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Q. If I want to change the details of the organisation. How is this done?

A. Simply by logging on with your unique member identification and password, you are able to access your details and make any changes that are necessary.

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Q. Is my information secure?

A. The only way to access your information is via your unique member identification and password. This ensures that all the information is secure and that only you can amend the information on the site.

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Q. How do I promote my sponsors on the site?

A. By going into the member's administration area, you are able to select the sponsor update area. Under this option, you are able to add sponsors to your site and also to provide a hotlink to their existing site. This feature is to be updated shortly to enable your sponsors to be listed on your home page should this be required.

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Q. How do I inform others of my presence on OzEvents?

A. You are able to advise all members etc. that you have a unique website address where they can receive information about upcoming events, contact details, newsletters, and other information. Suggested methods would be to place a large sign on your noticeboard or on your premises with your URL e.g. Www.yourname.ozevents.com or include your URL on your current newsletter or flyers. You should find that people will quickly enjoy being able to access information on forthcoming events, specials etc from work, home, while shopping, or even on their mobile phone!

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Q. How does having an OzEvents web site help my business/organisation?

A. Imagine not having to wait for members to physically walk into your premises to find out about your services. Imagine posting on your OzEvents website details of upcoming events and members being able to access that information from virtually anywhere! Imagine being able to advise of meetings, events, social functions without the expense and time of preparing, formatting, printing and postage. There are no time delays and the information is immediately available from your site.

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Q. How does my OzEvents web site help our members, customers?

A. Your members will be able to access your web page from home, work, or while shopping to find out up to date information. To use an example, Little Michael or Sally has a game of soccer this weekend. They are not sure where they are playing or at what time. They look up their club's OzEvents site and are able to instantly find out that information. Sally's dad also can log in from work so that he can arrange transport for the kids to their weekend events. Mum can log in from the home computer and arrange her morning around Michael and Sally's commitments. She also notes that she is on canteen duty this weekend and can prepare for that.

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Q. What about E-Commerce?

A. OzEvents is currently in the process of arranging E-Commerce applications which members will be able to access directly from their site. As soon as this facility is completed you will be able to have transactions directly from your site for subscriptions, specials etc. (subject to conditions). Anyone with a Credit Card facility will be able to pay their subscription and purchase other products through the Ozevents site. Further information will be provided to you as soon as it is available.

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Q. What Are cookies?

A. Cookies are small files written to your local computer's hard drive to store information useful to OzEvents as you move from screen to screen. The information stored within a cookie is not sensitive information about you, it is just information useful to OzEvents to aid your smooth navigation around the site.

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Q. Can I turn cookies off?

A. Yes, you can turn cookies off in your browser, if you are concerned about security issues. Unfortunately if you elect to do this, then a large part of the OzEvents site will not be available to you. There is no security risk to you from OzEvents, with cookies turned on.

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Q. Can I include HTML codes in the body of my site?

A. Yes you can. The use of HTML codes inside text areas of your site is acceptable. This is useful if you wish to change the colour of the text, bold it, or highlight some text in some way. There are other things you can achieve, depending on your level of HTML knowledge. NOTE. If you include HTML codes within your site and the site does not function correctly, we suggest you check the HTML codes and or remove them.

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Q. How do I include a link to an email address in my OzEvents Site?

A. To insert a link to an email address, insert the following HTML code <a href="mailto:someone@somewhere.com.au">Click Here To EMAIL someone</a>. Where someone@somewhere.com.au is the email address of the person to receive the email and 'Click Here To EMAIL Someone' is the text you will see on the page.

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Q. How do I include a link to another web site in my OzEvents Site?

A. To insert a link to another web site within the body of text in your OzEvents web site, insert the following HTML code <a href="WEB SITE ADDRESS">Click Here To Access WEB SITE ADDRESS</a>. Where WEB SITE ADDRESS is the web page you wish to access and 'Click Here To access WEB SITE ADDRESS' is the text you will see on the page. You can also include 'target="_blank"' if you want the web site referenced by WEB SITE ADDRESS to open a new browser window and appear within it.

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