Membership of the HTC Wizard Web is completey free and comes in two flavours. Let's have a look at those flavours.

Non-members have full read access on the HTC Wizard Web. Anyone can read articles, blogs, forum topics and the handbooks or subscribe to the collection of RSS feeds. Non-members can't contribute however. They cannot comment on blogs and articles and they can't participate in the discussions in the forum. Non-members can't have e-mail subscriptions either. All these options are available to members only

Authenticated users

When you register at the HTC Wizard Web, you automaticaly become an authenticated user. As an authenticated users you have the following privileges:

• You get your own blog, with the option to promote your entries to the frontpage
• You can post comments on blog entries and pages
• You can participate in discussions in the forum
• You can send private messages to other members, and receive private messages from other users
• You can write your own stories/articles, with the option to promote them to the frontpage
• You can download files that are attached to blogs, stories, forum topics and book pages
• You can subscribe to blogs, blog entries, stories, forums, forum topics and comments. You will be notified of new content through e-mail
• You can vote in polls
• You have access to the chatbox

Contributing members have the same privileges as authenticated users, but they also have the permissions needed to administer the handbooks.

At the moment I am the only user with the status contributing member. I am going to leave it like that for at least a few days. Anyone is free to add content to the HTC Wizard Web, but the handbooks need to become the core of the HTC Wizard Web. I don't mean to be a snob, but I want to be selective about promoting people to contributing members.

I expect from contributing members that they are very serious about their writing, and very serious about building a well structured handbook. It is going to take at least a few days to get an idea of which members would fall into that categorie.

If you feel that you have what it takes to become a contributing member, please let me know through a private message. Tell me a little about yourself, especialy about your experience with writing in general. Write some stories or blog entries here on the HTC Wizard Blog, or send me the URL to work that is available online.

To sum it all up in on sentence: Contributing members have elevated privileges, but they are not privileged. But, we are going to need them. Don't hesitate to message me if you want to work on the handbooks. It will be fun, and it will be rewarding.