1. What is the Redanyway Dashboard?
Redanyway Dashboard is your home on Redanyway. It's the place where you can change your personal info, profile info, explore new profiles on Redanyway and catch up on the updates of the profiles you are following.
2. So, the Dashboard is my profile?
No. Your blog or personal website that has been registered on Redanyway is your profile. Other users will NOT be directed to your dashboard on Redanyway, but will be directed to your profile. This is how you drive more traffic to your website.
3. Ok... So how do I add friends or follow someone if I cannot see them on Redanyway?
It's not that you cannot meet new people or find interesting profiles on Redanyway. You can use 'Explore' for that. You would be directed to the profile (personal website) of that person, where you can follow the blog or add the person as a friend through the Redanyway Widget.
4. What is the difference between a Friend and a Follower?
A 'Friend' relationship exists between two persons. A 'Follow' relation exists between a person and content/blog/profile.
Confused? Dont worry! In future, beside other features, users will be able to have multiple profiles (a blog, a company website, professional info page etc), so if you are friends with a person, you create a relationship with that person and all the profiles the person owns. But, as a follower you can choose to follow only a selected profiles and create a relationship only with those profiles. In either case you get updates from the profiles you have relationships with.
5. Do I need to request to follow or add someone as a friend?
A 'Friend' relationship is mutual, hence you need approval of the person you want to befriend. A 'Follow' relationship is unidirectional, no approval is required to follow a profile.
6. Where do I get updates of a blog I follow?
The following Section of the Dashboard lists the profiles you follow and has the updates of those profiles.
7. What do I have to do to get updates?
Nothing. It has already been taken care of by the profile owner. So no RSS, no XML, no feed readers... Just follow a profile or be friends with the profile owner and get the updates from that blog on your dashboard.
8. What is Activity and My Updates.
Activity is the activity stream that shows what's happening around you on Redanyway.
My Updates is what's happening with you on Redanyway!
9. I see some users have their photos, Why dont I?
Redanyway pulls your photo directly from Gravatar. You just have to register on Gravatar and make sure your email id at gravatar matches the one you have provided to Redanyway. For details click on your photo on the dashboard to edit.
1. Why should I setup a profile?
On Redanyway your website is your profile. Other users can visit you only on your profile.
2. How do I setup my profile.
You can setup a profile here. Here you submit the details of a website or a blog you already have.
Name : What you want your profile to be called.
URL : The link to the profile. Preferably the page where you wish to install the Redanyway Friends' and Followers' Lists Widget.
Description : A brief description of the profile.
Tags : The most relevant tags to your profile. This will help you get the most useful traffic to the profile.
Feeds: The respective blog, comment, photo or video stream feeds. This will help your friends and followers get the updates of your
profile.
3. I am asked for a code when I try to install a widget.
You do not need invitation code when you join Redanyway through any widget on any of its member profiles, but you need one to install the widget and activate your profile. Chances are, you joined Redanyway through one of these widgets. You can contact us here to get an invite code .
4. How do I provide feeds.
We recommend providing Atom or RSS 2.0 feeds. A link to these feeds can be obtained for you blog as shown
5. I have setup my profile. Is it active now?
No. Your profile is not active unless you install the 'Redanyway Friends' and Followers' Lists Widget'.
Once you install this widget sucessfully, your profile would be active.
1. What is a widget?
Redanyway Widgets are the tools that extend the social network funtionalities to your blog. These widgets will help you display your photo, About Me, Followers' list, Friends' list and Following list. Widgets also help your followers to add content on your profile to their favorites' list.
2. Why should I install the widget.
The widgets will help you build a social network around your website and draw more traffic to it. Although you do not need to install a widget or have a profile of your own to follow other profiles, or to add someone as a friend, we strongly recommend you to have an activated profile on Redanyway and install the Redanyway Widgets on it.
3. What are the types of widgets?
Redanyway currently offers
-Friends and Followers Lists Widget : It can be customized to include About Me and Following list along with the friends' and followers' lists.
-FavRED Widget : This widget can be placed on your website to enable your friends and followers to add your content to their favorites' list. You can have multiple FavRED widgets on your blog posts, images, videos, or entire webpage.
4. How to install the widgets?
1. Make sure you have correctly provided the URL and the feeds for your profile at Redanyway -> Profile -> Website Setup
2. Go to Redanyway -> Widgets -> 'Friends & Followers List'.
3. Customize the widget and preview it.
4. Grab the installation code from the 'Source' section on the same page or you can 'Quick Post' the widget to your blog directly if you have a blog setup on
Blogger
Wordpress,
Typepad,
Livejournal,
Piczo,
Freewebs,
Vox, Zanga etc.
5. To install the FavRED widget make sure you have installed the 'Friends' & Followers' List' widget.
6. The FavRED widget can be installed in the similar way or you can grab the code and add it to any post, photo, video on your profile and let your followers add the content to their favourites' list.
7. For any particular problem refer to other FAQs or mail us if the problem persists.
5. Can I customize the widgets?
You can customize the Redanyway Friends and Followers Lists Widget to include About Me and following sections, change the number of photos to be displayed on it and to change the styles.
You need not worry about the size. The widget is fluid, i.e. it will adapt to the width of the container it's put in.
6. I am getting these errors during installation.
- [Error: This Redanyway Widget is not
configured for this Website! Please, go
to your "Redanyway - Dashboard" to
check your configurations.]
- [ Not able to view anything on my website ]
Don't worry. You have done almost everything right. Just check a few things:
1. Check if the URL on the Profile info you have provided matches the URL of the page you wish to install the widget on.
2. Make sure the code from the Widgets section is exactly the same as you have pasted on your website and you are able to preview your widget in the preview section.
3. If everything seems fine, but you are still getting errors, drop us a line here.
7. What do I do with the 'widget code'?
When you are done customizing the widget, and are ready with the code, copy the piece of code from the 'Source' section and paste it on your website where you want to flaunt the cool widget.
8. I have a blog, but I dont know where to put that code; is there a simpler way to do that?
9. I have installed the widget. What next?
Great! Now you can invite your friends to join you on your website, and they can do so directly from your website. They dont have to come to Redanyway for that. Once logged on, you can browse through your friends' and followers' profiles and follow or add someone as a friend from their website directly.
10. What is a plugin? How is it different from the widgets?
If you have a blog with wordpress installation, you can use the Redanyway plugin. Download the Wordpress plugin and paste it in your wp-content/plugins directory. Once a plugin is uploaded, you may activate it from the Wordpress Dashboard. The Plugin will enable you to control all widget options from your Wordpress Dashboard and you dont have to copy-paste the widget code.
11. I have an idea, I think you could use.
We would be honoured to hear from you. If we find it interesting we may even try it out. Just drop us a line here.
