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the backpackers joint
How To
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This website has been designed for simplicity with no outside adverts in order to save you time and money in internet cafes
when you're travelling in remote places.
This is a quick guide showing you how to use the backpackers joint, and what each feature does.
Change Your Home Page
Your home page will correspond to the last country entered in your journal
To change this country, update the journal
Keep a Travel Journal
Click ‘my journal’ or ‘start journal’
To enter a destination, click ‘new location’
Enter Country
Enter Location, if yours is not under popular destinations then click ‘find’ in order to locate it
Fill in the rest of the fields and click ‘add location’
To add entries for that destination click ‘journal entry’
Enter date and details and click ‘add entry’
In order to read entries click ‘entries’
To go to a new destination click ‘new destination’
To alter entries click ‘entries’ then ‘edit’
After editing click on ‘update’ or ‘delete’
The journal is date sensitive, so that if you add an earlier destination or entry, it will automatically be put in date order
Use Travellers Message Boards
Click ‘message boards’
Click ‘click here’ for whichever board you would like to view
On the general chat and FREE ad's board, this will give you the latest 200 world wide postings
Each country has its own message board
In order to view full listings, select specific country
In order to get a wider view, select a region
To read a message click ‘open’
The FREE ad's board messages expire after a two week period
The private board is for incoming private messages
The funniest experiences and travellers tips are post only and cannot be replied to
Alternatively, open the message boards from your home page
View Others Journals, Maps, Photos, Postcards
Click on ‘backpacker search’ or ‘folk at home search’ and find the person you want
Click on ‘open’
The green title means you are viewing somebody else’s home page
From here you can view their journal and map, pictures or postcard home (if they have them)
You can also add this person as a ‘contact’ so that you can easily find them next time
Alternatively, find a person by clicking on ‘who’s here’
Send Postcard
Click on ‘send postcard’
Enter your postcard message
Click ‘post’ and the card will automatically update your current destination and date
Add Pictures
Click ‘add pictures’
Enter caption
Click ‘browse’ to find the photo you want posting
Click on ‘upload image’
Photo’s up to 200kb are allowed, but the smaller the size, the quicker it is to upload and also to view
End Journey
Click on ‘end journey’
This closes your journey and puts it into your archives
Enter fields and click ‘finish journey’
Use Your Travel Archives
Click on ‘my archives’
This gives you a list of your journeys, present and past
When you have finished your journey you can put it into the archives by going to ‘end journey’
To read a journey click ‘open’
To re-open a journey at a later click ‘edit journey’
To start a new journey go to ‘my journal’ and click ‘start your new journal’
Save Contacts
Click 'contacts’
You can add contacts in order to save you searching for them each time
Search for the person you want as a contact and click ‘open’ to their home page
From here you can click ‘add contact’ or ‘remove contact’
See Who’s Here
Click on ‘who’s here’
This will give you a list of backpackers currently in your ‘home’ page country
Alternatively, if you ‘open’ somebody else’s home page, it will list the backpackers in their country
Send a Private Message
Find the person you want to send a message and click ‘open’ to their home page
From their message board you can send private message by clicking ‘click here’
Alternatively, if you reply to any general/for sale message, you can tick the box to have this sent as a private message
Alter Map
The map shows the last 10 destinations in your journal
In order to see more, less or different places, highlight the dots from/to and click ‘change view’
www.thebackpackersjoint.com a spliffing good time online!
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The Backpackers Joint Overview
The backpackers joint is a web site set up by backpackers for travellers all over the world and for the poor unfortunate folk that they leave back home
The idea of the backpackers joint is to provide a fun packed central point of contact so that travellers can keep in touch with each other, keep in touch with home, buy and sell items, keep a journal of their travels, trace their travels on a map, show photos of their travels, share their experiences with others, look at other travellers journals and search for backpackers that they may have travelled with in the past
The backpackers joint allows folk at home to also contact travellers or other folk at home, view travellers journals, view travellers maps, view travellers photo’s, receive postcards home, add their own photos, use most of the backpackers facilities and join in much of the fun
The backpackers joint saves the traveller writing those long group e-mails and also saves your e-mail account getting all clogged up, whilst providing an advert free site with no annoying pop ups so that
The backpacker can use the site quickly and efficiently thus saving time and money in internet cafes
Above all the backpackers joint is about having fun on line, meeting other travellers and letting other backpackers or folk at home see what a great time they’re having - and the funnier the better!!
www.thebackpackersjoint.com - a spliffing good time on-line!
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