Directions on how to use the discussion forums, downloads, and view articles sections.
Articles: Once you login, you you will be able to read the articles. Message Boards/Discussion Forums: Once you login, you may click on the message boards page to enter the message boards/discussion forum section of the website. From there you can visit the forum FAQ page to answers any questions you may have about the forum. First you need to click on register which is located at the far right top of the forums page (see below). Here you will give yourself a username and password to use while in the forums. When you are ready to read and write in the discussion forums you can click on the bold title. This will open up the forum and give you a few options (seen below). The main two options are to open up a previously posted topic and read it or open up a new topic page (i.e. click on new topic) and post a new topic. The New Topic button is seen under the title Current Issues in Sports (seen below) If you chose to read a posted topic, click on the title of the topic. This will open it and allow you to vote in any pole that may be attached. On the bottom and top of the post is a button called "post reply". Use this option if you would like to reply to the post you have just read. If you choose to post a reply just fill out the reply sheet and hit submit. However, if you want to post a new topic in a forum, click on the forum and click new topic. This will allow you to write a topic of choice and create a pole. To do so fill in the subject of the topic you would like to post and then fill in your message body (seen below). To post the poll, enter in the poll question, and fill in the poll options (seen below). For example, your question is "How much sleep should an athlete receive each night", you would then write in your poll options, option number one "9 hours", option number 2 "8 hours", Option 3 "7 hours", and so on. Then the voters will choose an option to vote on. Once you have entered in the poll options, click on update beside each option you have chosen to connect the option with the question. Then click submit and your poll and topic will be posted. Please review your polls and topics before submitting them. Note: if you do not click update beside each poll option, it will not connect that option to the poll. Note: This software package uses BB code which is a bit different then writing in Microsoft Word. For instance if you write a word, highlight the word and bold it, the word will look like this [b]BOLD[/b] . Don't think your computer is messing up, it is just BB code. When you post the reply or topic your highlighted word will be in BOLD. Note: For the safety of the website and its members against hackers, some options in the "Profile" section have been disabled even though they show up on the menu. We apologize for this but the way in which the software was written, we cannot remove the disabled options. The software we employed to build this portion of the website has many features. At the present time we have not decided to include all of them. Please pardon our progress as we grow and hopefully release new features in the future. Please visit the FAQ section if you have further questions. If you have any questions please read the FAQ's or the forum FAQ's. If this does not answer your question e-mail us at customerservice@athleteproject.com and we will get back with you as soon as possible. Thank you for becoming a member.
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