We will be staying at the excellent Braich Goch bunkhouse (http://www.braichgoch.co.uk/) near Coed y Brenin, which has it’s own pub!

For more information please check out the forum post at http://www.lsu-cycling.co.uk/forum/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=13.0

There is plenty of information on this website that should hopefully answer any questions but if not please just post your query in the forum. For any further queries please direct them to Dan Johnson, who is our DH captain this year.

To find out more please come along to the Freshers Bazaar where there will be plenty of people from the club to chat to and find out more.

For any current members, a little note to let you know that i’ve been talking to the guy at Thor again this year with the hope we can get some proper kit and i’ll try and get it subsidised. I’ll talk more about this at the Freshers Presentation so come along.

Thor Paranormal Jersey

Thor Paranormal Pants

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User Guide

Twitter Feed

At the top of the page we have a twitter feed which displays the most recent tweet. You can find us on twitter ‘LSUCYCLING’, and follow us to get updates to your phone. An instance in which they may be used is if we cancel a Wednesday ride an hour before for some reason, this is the best method of getting a quick message around.

Navigation Bar

The navigation bar is located at the top of everypage, and when you move your mouse over certain texts, the menu deepens and more content become’s available. Once you have found the area you are looking for, click the link and you will arrive there.

Search Box

The search box functions by you entering a term into the field and then either pressing the search button or pressing the return key. The search page will then return results which relate to value you entered into the field.

Follow Us

There are several methods by which you can follow LSCC other than the website. Twitter allows you to follow our tweets, which we post to the website. RSS Feeds are a simple way of formatting the page so that all you see is text (good if internet is slow).

Featured Articles

The featured article scoller brings to your attention any featured articles that we feel are really important. At the top you will see little grey dots which when you click them, they will navigate you through the slides. Also you can use the arrows at the left and right hand-side of the image to scroll through also. A caption appears at the bottom of the image giving you a brief idea about the article, and if you need to read more, then just click the picture.

Recent Posts on Main Page

Recent posts appears below the featured article slider and this allows you to see recent club news from all the different discplinces of riding in the club.

Login Widget

To the right you will see the login/profile widget, which is where you login/register/forgot password etc.

Registering

Logged In

To register just follow the ‘register’ link in the login widget and fill in the details as you would normally. We ask for you’re A-XXXXXX number because we can link this with the people who have paid for membership through lufbra.net and give them exclusive content. However this is an optional field. Once your registered you will see this screen each time you login, which displays your member-related content.

To Log-out of your account, you can either click the link in the above image or at the very top of the page is a log-out button aswell. This is a good security measure to get used to as it limits people getting onto your account with their permission.

Logged In Profile Picture

To give your account a ‘Profile Picture/Avatar’  as shown in the picture on the right, you need to setup a gravatar account. Your profile picture will also be used in the forums as your avatar. We use Gravatar as it allows us to remotely manage the profile pictures which saves our website space being hogged by pictures.

Gravatar Website

Gravatar Signup

Gravatar E-Mail

Manage Gravatar Profile Pictures

Firstly go to http://en.gravatar.com and at the top of the page follow the ‘Sign up’ link. They don’t ask for much information, but to make this work properly the next step is very important. The key is to USE THE SAME EMAIL YOU SIGNED UP TO LSU-CYCLING.CO.UK WITH. This then allows our website and gravatar to talk and share pictures.

Once your Gravatar account is created, log back into your account and by default the ‘Manage Gravatars’ page will show up. Click to add an image, and then follow the cropping steps through. Once your picture is uploaded, Gravatar then get you to rate your photo, however for the LSCC website it doesn’t matter what you rate the photo, just as long as you rate it something.

Now just wait upto 5 minutes and check back on your logged in widget and you should now havea  shiny new display picture.

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Change Personal Details

To change any personal details from when you logged in, follow the ‘Profile’ tab in you logged in widget. Now you will see all your details, just make the change you want and then press update profile. These changes are instant, so make sure you put your correct details down.

Member Benefits

‘Member discounts’ can be found as a link in your logged in widget. This is where any offers/discounts that LSCC has setup with companies often as sponsorship with will be posted here and how to use the links/codes will also be displayed there.

Also if you know of any good cycling discounts, then please submit them to me.

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Recent Posts Sidebar

‘Recent Posts’ just brings up any recent posts but this appears on everypage, so you can always check the latest news.

Upcoming Events

The upcoming events widget shows you the 3 up-coming events and gives a brief detail about each one. To gain further information you  click the name of the event to take you deeper into the event information.

Calendar

The calendar gives a monthly overview of when events are happening, and if there is something occurring on a date, the number will turn orange.

Newsletter Subscription

To subscribe to the weekly newsletter during term time, you need to put your email address in, and you will then be added to the mailing list. You ca unsubscribe at any point by following the link in any of the newsletters.

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Latest Forum Posts

The latest forum posts displays the latest 3 forum posts made on the forum, so that people don’t have to go diving around the forum to find recent ones. Again just click the title and it will take you direct to the content.

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Sponsor Companies

At the bottom of the page is our sponsors where you can click the images to take you through to their websites.