Thanks for joining the EMR Community Forum! Here are some quick tips that will help you learn how to get around the site and make the most of your experience.

Once you have logged in, you will be at the "Categories and Forums" page (seen here). Right below the site logo, you will see what looks like a menubar, with the entries Go, New, Find, and Tools. Just click on the desired entry and a submenu will appear below it with more choices. This menubar will be available to you wherever you go on the site, and will change according to the page you are viewing.

To access any particular forum, just click on the forum's name. This will bring you to list of topics in that forum, with most recent ones at the top of the list. You can return to the Categories and Forums page by using the Back button in your browser, or clicking the "Forums" text just above the menu bar (to the right of the small notepad).

At the very top of the page, to the right of the logo, there is a button that you can use to easily keep track of what is happening on the site. "New Topics Since Your Last Visit" will display a page with all topics, from all forums, that have had messages posted to them since the last time you visited the site. This is a great way to quickly see what topics are active and catch up, even if you have been away for a while.

If you find that logging in to the site regularly is too cumbersome or time consuming for you, you can also opt to have one or more forums emailed to you on a daily or weekly basis. Once you are at the forum's page, click the Notify option on the menu bar and an "Add Notification" window will appear. You can then choose to have that forum's new topics emailed to you daily or weekly (they will be combined into a single email message, called a "digest"). If you wish, you can even include reply postings, so that all the messages in that forum will be sent to you via email.

Even if you do check in to the site regularly, you may occasionally come across a topic that you want to be kept fully aware of. You can use the same "Add Notification" technique while viewing that topic, and get email messages only when replies are added to the topic.

Once you have clicked on a topic to see the messages within that topic, there are a variety of small buttons that let you do many things. They are:

	This button allows you to "quote" an existing message to create a reply. This means that the text in the original message will be included in your reply, inside [QUOTE][/QUOTE] markers. If you choose to do this, please trim the text from the original message down to only the specific sentence(s) you are replying to, so that the reply does not become overly long.
	This button will only be available on messages you have posted, and then only up to 60 (sixty) minutes after you originally posted the message. During that window, you can edit or delete the message entirely if you like.
	If a message is posted that you feel is obscene, in poor taste, or otherwise offensive, clicking this button will send an alert to the site administrator that you feel the message needs to be reviewed. You will also be given an opportunity to state why you feel this is necessary.
	This is the standard "reply" button, that gives you a full posting window with many options for formatting your reply, including adding emoticons, URLs and other types of special text.
	This is the "quick reply" button, when you only want to send a simple, plain text reply with no special formatting or graphics.

Well, that should be enough to get you started! If you need more help, you can click on Tools, and then Help on the menubar to see the online help system. If you are still stuck, you can click on the Contact Us link at the bottom of every forum page to send an email directly to the site administrator. Thanks again for joining!