OK, I got a login. Now what?
John Reekie, 3 Aug 1999

Congratulations! The first thing you should do is go to the Your profile page and make sure that your personal information is correct and complete.

Second, we recommend that you spend a little time browsing the site and familiarizing yourself with its features. From the point of view of using the web site in an interactive fashion (as opposed to just reading content), you should definitely take a look at:

• The introductory overview linked in the right margin of the Workspaces page.
• This FAQ, for information on how to use this site.
• The general forum, for a place to participate in research-related topics.
• The infrastructure forum, for infrastructure-related topics.
• The publications database, to search for and add your own publications.

You will probably want to join one or more SIGs (instructions). We strongly advise that you only join SIGs in which you will be actively working -- each SIG is likely to generate a lot of mail and discussion and if you are not an active participant you would probably be better off just subscribing to that group's "interest" mailing list (see below). Browse the groups listed on the Workspaces page before joining any groups.

You may wish to create your own group. Creating your own group allows you to create a shared identity on this site, together with the researchers that are working with. See the group administrator's FAQ for instructions on how to do this.

Thanks, and have fun!