Register An Account

These steps show you how to establish and register your member account with SouthShenandoah.Net, the Web site for maintainers of the Appalachian Trail in the South District of Shenandoah National Park and those who tramp the Trail.

Registration

1. When you land on the SouthShenandoah.Net site, go to the Member Login form and click the Register link.
   
2. The Registration form appears in the main body of the site.
3. If the letters and numbers of the Security Code are hard to read, click the speaker icon and an Arnold Schwartzeneger-like disembodied voice will pronounce them for you.
   
4. Enter the information asked; the fields that are required are marked by an icon like an exclamation; other icons tell you whether the information you enter will be displayed in your profile that other site members can see.
   
5. You can protect some data fields from the view of other registered members by selecting the level you wish from the drop-down list to the right of the field.¹
   
   
6. You must agree to the Terms and Conditions to use this Web site; click the link at the bottom of the form to see these.
   
7. Click the Register button to complete your account registration.
   
8. The Web site will display this message after you click the Register button:
   
   

   Registration Complete message

Confirm Your Account

You will receive an auto-generated e-mail asking you to confirm your account registration. We ask this to ensure that Spam bots have not attempted to register an account so that Spammers can send spam to all registered members. This also helps protect our Web site from being taken over into yet another bot-net and used for illegal purposes.

Click the link provided in the body of this e-mail message to confirm you registration. Your browser will open to our Web site and display this message:

Registration Confirmed message

Welcome Aboard

You will receive an auto-generated e-mail message after the Webmaster sets up that shows the details your account. That message will look like this:

You’ll also receive a “Welcome” message affirming the details of your new account and inviting you to login.

Your Profile

When you first login to SouthShenandoah.net, the site will first open your account Profile. Take some time and go through the various tabs to make certain the information there is correct.

Your Profile page

If you want to change your profile, click the Update Your Profile link under the Edit menu item. (You can also click the link to update or add your personal photo or avatar.)