pommfrites
Mommy of 2 Jr. Mouseketeers
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New DisneyAwards Site
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Hello,
We have completed the basic functionality of the new site.
Each person will need to reregister at the new site. All new registrations will be required to confirm the registration request by clicking a hyperlink in an email that will be sent to the email address you provided during the registration process.
Once your new registration is completed, you be able to log in to the new site. Your award totals for the daily and weekly visits will be credited in real time. We will strive to automate as many procedures, but some automation will be beyond our control.
Here are a few notes about how the new site will work. You must be logged in to receive proper credit for any visit to a sponsors site. When you click a sponsor's advertisement, their site will open in a new window. Your name and award balance will show in the top portion of the new browser window, and the sponsors site will be displayed in the bottom portion. After 30 seconds, you will be credited for your visit to that site and your point total will automatically update in the top portion of the new window. Remember that you must be logged in to receive proper credit. If you are not logged in, the top portion of the browser window will display a name of "Guest" with an award total of zero points. (For you clever people who might want to try to register with the username "Guest" to try to claim these unassigned visits, it will not work
If you find that you have clicked on a sponsors while not logged in, simply go to the login page and enter your information. You may then go back to that sponsor and visit their site again to receive proper credit (i.e. You will not lose the opportunity to be credited should you visit as a guest, and then come back a few minutes later logged in as yourself).
The new site uses cookies. You *MUST* have cookies enabled to ensure proper functionality. There is no way around this. The login cookie will expire 24 hours after you log in. So, if you visit a sponsor site, shut your computer off, come back three hours later, and visit another sponsors site, you should still be logged in. If you try to visit a sponsors site after your login cookie as expired, you will visit as a guest (see instructions in the preceding paragraph). If you try to access the member area after your login cookie has expired, you will be prompted to enter your login information. If you have a technical question about the cookies we are setting or why we coded something like we did, please feel free to email me. I would be more than happy to explain our reasoning behind things.
Please remember that the site will be evolving over the next month. Not all features of the new site have been implemented. We wanted to implement the basics and then expand the rest of the site.
Lastly, we are having one minor delay with the DNS servers of the new site (DNS servers are used by your web browser to locate any website that you visit). We hope to have this resolved tomorrow morning (Wednesday). Some of you may experience a delay of a few days while the changes propagate over the Internet while some of you will be able to access the site right away. This is a standard Internet delay and is beyond our control. The bottom line is we will be live for some people starting tomorrow, and over the next few days the rest of you should be able to access the new site!
If you have any comments, suggestions, or (heaven forbid find any bugs, please feel free to report them to me (email address to be put in a separate posting). I will obviously fix any bugs.
Please watch for a new post in the next day with additional information.
Sincerely,
Stacy & Bob
Kristen
New DisneyAwards Site
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Hello,
We have completed the basic functionality of the new site.
Each person will need to reregister at the new site. All new registrations will be required to confirm the registration request by clicking a hyperlink in an email that will be sent to the email address you provided during the registration process.
Once your new registration is completed, you be able to log in to the new site. Your award totals for the daily and weekly visits will be credited in real time. We will strive to automate as many procedures, but some automation will be beyond our control.
Here are a few notes about how the new site will work. You must be logged in to receive proper credit for any visit to a sponsors site. When you click a sponsor's advertisement, their site will open in a new window. Your name and award balance will show in the top portion of the new browser window, and the sponsors site will be displayed in the bottom portion. After 30 seconds, you will be credited for your visit to that site and your point total will automatically update in the top portion of the new window. Remember that you must be logged in to receive proper credit. If you are not logged in, the top portion of the browser window will display a name of "Guest" with an award total of zero points. (For you clever people who might want to try to register with the username "Guest" to try to claim these unassigned visits, it will not work
If you find that you have clicked on a sponsors while not logged in, simply go to the login page and enter your information. You may then go back to that sponsor and visit their site again to receive proper credit (i.e. You will not lose the opportunity to be credited should you visit as a guest, and then come back a few minutes later logged in as yourself).The new site uses cookies. You *MUST* have cookies enabled to ensure proper functionality. There is no way around this. The login cookie will expire 24 hours after you log in. So, if you visit a sponsor site, shut your computer off, come back three hours later, and visit another sponsors site, you should still be logged in. If you try to visit a sponsors site after your login cookie as expired, you will visit as a guest (see instructions in the preceding paragraph). If you try to access the member area after your login cookie has expired, you will be prompted to enter your login information. If you have a technical question about the cookies we are setting or why we coded something like we did, please feel free to email me. I would be more than happy to explain our reasoning behind things.
Please remember that the site will be evolving over the next month. Not all features of the new site have been implemented. We wanted to implement the basics and then expand the rest of the site.
Lastly, we are having one minor delay with the DNS servers of the new site (DNS servers are used by your web browser to locate any website that you visit). We hope to have this resolved tomorrow morning (Wednesday). Some of you may experience a delay of a few days while the changes propagate over the Internet while some of you will be able to access the site right away. This is a standard Internet delay and is beyond our control. The bottom line is we will be live for some people starting tomorrow, and over the next few days the rest of you should be able to access the new site!
If you have any comments, suggestions, or (heaven forbid
find any bugs, please feel free to report them to me (email address to be put in a separate posting). I will obviously fix any bugs. Please watch for a new post in the next day with additional information.
Sincerely,
Stacy & Bob
Kristen
