Using This Site
TEG wants to make this site as useful as possible. If you have any difficulties or queries that are not covered in the notes below, please do not hesitate to contact TEG's website manager Asako Yokoya.
On this page:
Members' Login
Cookies
Password reminders and change of password
Site map
Text size
Overview
Editing your contact details
Editing your Exhibition or Venue details
Adding a new Exhibition or Venue
Adding/changing images to your Exhibition of Venue details
Deleting an exhibition
Contacts and Information Exchange
Members' Noticeboard
Mailing List
Accessing Documents
Screen resolution and browsers
JavaScript
Members Login
Members must login to the site in order to access the members-only areas. When you login, a link will appear in the top right hand corner of the site, labelled 'overview'. Clicking 'overview' will show you all persons, exhibitions and venues associated with your membership.
Note: a member's login is supplied only to the person listed on our records as the main contact for an organisation. Additional members of staff within the same organisation will need to use the same login details. Members need the email with which they are registered to the site with, and passwords are case sensitive.
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Cookies
In order to keep you logged into the members site, this website uses cookies.
Cookies are pieces of data that are sent from the TEG website to your browser, which may then store them on your computer system. This means that when you are logged into the website, travel from page to page or leave the site and come back, your browser remembers your login details. No personal details of any kind are stored or gathered by cookies.
To clear the cookie that keeps you logged on to the site click on 'Sign out' in the top right hand side of the webpage.
Without cookies enabled on your browser you may have difficulties viewing certain parts of this website. Cookies can be enable via your browser menu.
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Password reminders and change of password
If you have forgotten your password please click 'Password reminder' and enter the email address of the main contact member for the organisation. Your password will be emailed to you.
You can change your password when you are logged into the site, by clicking 'Change your password', you will be asked to type the new password twice.
Note: Remember that all members of staff within the same organisation will need to use the same login details. Do not change your password without notifying any other staff member who needs access to the members' areas of the site.
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Site map
To see the site map, click on the link at the top right corner of the screen, above the members login.
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Text size
You can enlarge the text size by clicking on the link at the top right corner of the screen, above the members login.
To increase your the text size further is dependant on your browser. For Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer, select 'View' from the menu, then 'Text Size'. For Netscape 6, hold down CTRL and press + or - to alter the text size. For Netscape 4, hold down CTRL and press [ or ] to alter the text size.
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Overview
Clicking the 'Overview' link at the top right corner of the screen gives you quick access to your organisation's records.
Editing your contact details
Click on 'Members' in the Resources area sub-menu. Use the Members' Search to access your record (you can do this by typing your name in the box). Click on your name in the search results to view your membership record. The option to edit will appear next to your name at the top of the record - click on 'Edit' to access the form. When you have made the required changes, click on 'update data' at the bottom of the form.
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Editing your Exhibition or Venue details
Click on 'Exhibitions' or 'Venues' in the Resources area sub-menu. Use the Search to locate the exhibition or venue record that you wish to change. Click on 'Edit' next to the exhibition title or gallery name to obtain the Edit form. Make the required changes and then click on 'update'.
Adding a new Exhibition or Venue
Click on 'Exhibitions' or 'Venues' in the Resources area sub-menu. Follow the link provided to access a form to submit a new exhibition or venue. New exhibitions/ venues will not appear immediately on the site - they will normally be added to the database within one week of submission.
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Adding/changing images to your Exhibition or Venue details
You can add or replace images by using the Edit form as above. Go to the 'Image' input box and click on 'Browse' to select the new image file from your computer. Click on 'Update data' at the bottom of the form to upload the file to the website.
Note about image saving: images must be saved as jpegs at 72dpi. Images must be RGB, not CMYK or Bitmap.Images are automatically resized to 280 pixels wide for the webpage so please ensure they are this size or larger. Uploading a smaller image could result in a loss of image quality.
When naming your images, name all files in lower case, do not use more than 7 characters. If you need to use more characters, please use the _ symbol instead of spaces.
New exhibition titles are listed in TEG's six-monthly Exchange publication. It may also be possible to include exhibition images in some issues of Exchange. If you would like an image to be forwarded for possible use in Exchange, please supply this at 300dpi and a minimum of 75mm width/height, or alternatively at 72dpi, minimum width/height 300mm. Please ensure you supply a full caption/credit.
Deleting an Exhibition
Please contact TEG if you would like an exhibition to be removed from the website. This cannot be done through the members' editing facility. It is possible to 'inactivate' an exhibition so that they it can be reactivated at the member's request if necessary.
Contacts and Information Exchange
TEG's Executive Committee members and part-time staff can be contacted via the Contacts page.
TEG members can use the Members search (Resources area) to email fellow members via a form. We have kept email addresses private to protect from unwanted spam. Messages sent by email via the website containing the senders email and will arrive with the recipient with the subject heading '[TEG] New Private Message form'. It will be up to the individual member to reply.
When using the Exhibitions or Venues search, you can use the link on the results pages to email the relevant contact person.
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Members' Noticeboard
TEG members can use the Noticeboard in the Resources area to post information and news about exhibition projects and events.
Note: an email address must be supplied so that interested members can respond directly. The @ sign has been removed when the email address is displayed, to reduce spam, however when you click on the link it will be the correctly formatted email address.
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Mailing List
News bulletins are emailed to all TEG members listed in our records, so it is not necessary for current members to subscribe to the mailing list. Anyone who is not currently listed as a member and who would like to receive information about TEG events and activities is invited to join our mailing list. Please complete the form in the Contacts section.
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Accessing documents
Downloadable documents are available from this site as PDF's or Word documents.
To view a PDF document, you need the Adobe Acrobat Reader program which is available to download free from the Adobe website at www.adobe.co.uk
To view a Word document you should have either a version of Word or one of the free Word readers available from Microsoft. Microsoft's Word reader software is available free from www.microsoft.com
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Screen resolution and browsers
This website is designed to be seen on a screen size of 800 x 600 and higher. It is best viewed on a screen showing at least 256 colours. For best viewing, your browser should have images, javascript and CSS1 and 2 turned on. Should any of these be unavailable, however, you should still be able to find the information you want.
You can download the latest versions of the most commonly-used browsers for free:
Firefox (www.mozilla.com/firefox/)
Safari (www.apple.com/safari/)
Internet Explorer (www.microsoft.com/windows/ie)
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JavaScript
This site uses JavaScript for a number of functions, so your browser must have JavaScript turned on in its preferences, which are accessed from the menu bar.
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