Profiles:

The Create a profile link is on every forum in the navigator bar where the post a message link is.

If the link says Edit profile instead of create a profile, and you never created one before, then you must  have attempted to make a post using someone else's user name and your cookies have been reset to pre load that name, to clear this up you will need to delete any cookies you have on your browser from the Treasure Depot.

  A password will be sent to the email address you listed in the profile after you create your profile.

Please be sure you allow email from webmaster@thetreasuredepot.com in your spam filters or you may not receive it.

You can and should change this password to something you can remember by using the edit profile link which will only appear for those that have already created a profile and entering the password assigned in the box provided, then entering your new password in the 2 new password box's  provided. I highly recommend this, as the password sent by the depot is all capitols and a bunch of garbled letters.. Its simple to change if you do it before losing it, and make it something simple you can remember

Be aware if you edit your profile and change you email address, that a new password should be emailed to the new email address and your old one will no longer work! Wait till you receive your new password before attempting to post.

   When making your first post be sure you type in the new password in the box on the post form as your cookies may have saved your last password and pre loaded it, and check save password box so your cookies will remember the new one.  If you lose your password send me an email and I will reset it,  Be aware I can not see current passwords as they are encrypted, so I must know the exact user name and  email address that you post using, and also send me what you would like your new password to be so I don't have to try and make one up.

Your profile will not appear in the profile list until you make a post on that particular forum except the classifieds list.

If attempting to create a profile and its saying profile already exists, then you are either trying to create one that someone else has already used ( in that case try using another name), or you previously posted on a forum using a password or previously created a profile. In the latter case you will need your password to post,  or need to email me to reset your password. You may need to clear your cookie files to clear out the pre loaded name if you made the mistake of attempting to post or create a profile using one that already exists.

Passwords

When you create a profile on any of the forums a password will be emailed to the email address you put in your profile, so make sure you check your spam folders if you don't receive it within 5 minutes.
When you receive your first password it will generally be in all capitol letters, the passwords are case sensitive and must be entered exactly as sent. You can change you password to what ever you want by editing your profile, entering the sent password in the box provided and entering your new one twice in the two (new) boxes provided in the form. When you make your first post be sure to click save password so it will be saved in your cookies that way you will not have to enter it with each post. Once you create a profile no-one will be able to post using your name as saved without that password.

 Do Not use password managers on any browser, if your browser asks if you would like to save your password for this site, reply never for this site,  as it will cause you problems. If you already replied yes and popups are appearing then you need to delete any references to the depot in your password manager. You can save your password in your cookie files by simply checking the save password box when you make a post.

Page loading problems:

If you are experiencing problems with loading pages or not being able to access certain pages please try the following tip before e-mailing me with your problem. I get a lot of mail every week especially from AOL users and this method fixes the problem 99% of the time. With the amount of updating we do on this site especially on the find of the month page, it is often necessary to clear your browser cache to get the a fresh download of the latest pages. 

First try this: 

Hold down the "shift" key on your keyboard and while you are still holding it down click "refresh" or "reload" on your browser tool bar. This will force a fresh download from the server instead of using your cached pages that may not be updated with the latest additions.

 If that fails you can try to clear your cache. You will not loose any cookies or important files by clearing your cache but it will force a fresh download for any new pages you go to after that.
 

To Clear Cache in Internet Explorer:

You need to open the Internet Explorer browser first.
Next go to the top toolbar and click on "tools" then "Internet options"
Next you will see a heading called "temporary Internet files" Click that and put a check in the box that says "delete all off-line content" Click "OK" and let it do it's thing.
 

AOL users:

If you have AOL you do not open AOL. You need to find Internet Explorer in your program menu.
Look for "Internet Explorer" not windows explorer.

You then need to open the browser and follow the steps above.
AOL uses Internet Explorer as its browser, however it is integrated into the shell so you don't notice it.
You have to open the browser by itself to clear your cache.

To Clear your cache using Netscape:

Netscape users open the "edit" menu and choose "preferences"
Next click the "advanced" category and select "cache". Click the "clear disk cache" and the "clear memory cache" buttons and click "ok"

Cookies:

Its possible that at times your cookies may get corrupted, causing strange errors, like pre loading the wrong 
passwords or email address etc. To clear the cookies, use the help function of the browser you are using and search on cookies to and find out how to delete them. Or you can email the webmaster with browser  and version browser your using and I will try and help explain how you to clear the problem up.

The newer versions of Netscape have cookie management in the tools pull down, IE has cookies management  in the file pull down, then tools, then internet options, with a push button to delete cookies in the temp internet files menu.

Smilies:

To add the smilies any where in your post or in the subject line, you just use a simple
code that the scripts use to add that particular smiley face. 
All of them begin with a colon : or semi colon ;
then a series of single or multiple letters or characters.
IE. a simple smiley face is coded :) all you need do is type that any where in the post you
want a smiley face . To get the codes for any of the smiley faces, simply place your mouse cursor over one of them that is posted or from the table below and you will see the coding you need to use for that particular emoticon.

 Text Format Codes

Text typed between the following tags will take that property if typed into message box
IE: [b] test [/b]  would print out test in bold

 Bigger text  [big]  [/big]