Help File
General Information
Every effort has been made to keep the navigation style and colors similar to Rotary Internationals.
Registering on the website
Only members of the District Clubs are able to Register. Additionally new members must specify their club and have confirmation from the club Secretary. This is intended to prevent spam and any unwanted mail, phone calls, and email.
By registering on the website, you are allowed to see Rotary privileged information, such as membership lists. In order for your name to appear in the club roster, you must be registered. Registering facilitates the management of the Club and District. The club can print the roster from the website, thereby easing the work needed to produce it. Every Club member is highly encouraged to register.
Login
You have a distinct User ID and once one is assigned it cannot be changed. (You may register a second time with a different User ID, passwords however may be reused). Your password must include at least one NON Alpha Numeric Character, which includes @#$%^&*()+=, and must be at least 7 characters long. Please also remember that the Password is case sensitive.
When to Use Login
If you need to use some of the sophisticated features of the website, such as Communicator to email members of your club; to check the membership roster of your club; or to edit some feature on the website, you will have to log in. If you entered the website from a club site, you will have to login again in order to use District functions such as Communicator or Calendar. For Calendar, however, only those individuals that have editing rights to Calendar need to log in.
If you are only on the website to use Communicator, you do not need to login at your club site, but may go directly to the District Communicator where you can login.
Quick Reference guide
Home
Click on the Rotary Wheel, in the upper left hand corner of the page, or on Home at the top of other pages to return to the Home page.
Banners
There are three banners (one active, two hidden) at the top of the website. To activate the others, click on one of the three topics below the picture to bring up its representative banner.
Links
Whenever you pass your mouse cursor over blue text, and the color changes from Blue to Brown, it is a link, and you may click on it to be redirected to a different page. This works like the blue underlined text links you have seen in past websites.
There are different ways the links open up. There may be a whole new page opened up, and your browser directs you to it immediately (Case 1). Or a new page opens up and a new button appears in the lower Tool bar (Case 2), or the link opens up as a subwindow of the current page (Case 3). In order to go back to the original page or to the home page, you may close out the new window if it is a new page (Case 1 or Case 2), or you may select the Home page return (Case 3), which may be either the Rotary Wheel or the Home link at the top of the page.
Quick Keys
Show Me
Click on the button ‘Show Me’ to see a drop down menu with a list of current topics. Select one of the topics and you will be redirected to that page. To return to the Home page, click the Rotary Wheel in the upper left hand corner.
Calendar
Click here and a new page will open containing the Club and /or District Calendar. If you enter onto the website through the District site (rather than through your own club site) you will see the District Calendar.
Reverse color is used on the calendar to highlight important dates. Days in grey are Saturday and Sunday. Light Blue indicates events occurring on the indicated days. Dark Blue represents either today’s date, or a date you have selected, or pointed to. The information in the right hand panel will represent the day in Dark Blue.
Please note the links at the bottom of the page. These may be selected to display a list of all events. Your choices are only District events; individual club events; or all events and functions scheduled on both district and club sites. The events may be printed by clicking on the appropriate links at the bottom of the page.
A club must be using and entering data on the Calendar for their events to be listed.
Newsletter
Click here to visit the latest monthly District Newsletter. This is a PDF file that may be printed.
The Governor’s newsletter is a weekly feature and is found by clicking on the ‘Fog Horn’ on Column 1 of the Home Page.
Communicator
If you have logged in, you may use this powerful tool to contact other members and groups of members within the club (or District if you have been assigned District a role). Because of security and anti spam concerns, no email addresses are exposed or referenced. Individuals are referenced by names or titles only.
RI Current News
This is an exciting new internet feature! It is a news feed, which is automatically updated to give you the latest RI news. Check here frequently to see the latest International news.
Help
Selecting help has directed you to this page. A '?' may also appear at a new site and this icon can also direct you to a help menu.
Structure of the Home Page
Rotary Wheel
Click here whenever you have entered another site and wish to return to the home page. Other pages may show 'Home' at the top. This often occurs when editing certain pages.
Navigation Tabs
District Upper Right Hand Corner
These links generally will take you to other websites. They are: Club Locator with a list of all the clubs in the district; Links such as to Rotary International; directions to mailing the District Governor, Webmaster and District Bulletin Editors; and a Search feature with a Google Engine that searches the entire District 5180 site, and subsites. See detail in the Index of the Navigation Tabs for the list of topics in each tab.
District Upper Left Hand Corner Tabs
These are organized as the five categories of the New Club Leadership Plan as defined by Rotary International as well as the Tab 'About Rotary'. These are: Membership, the Foundation, Services, Community, Administration, and Publicity. See detail below for the list of topics in each tab.
Body of the Home page
This is a changeable Panel and current topics will be listed here. The default topics (as listed below in the columns) will be General News and Announcements of the District and General News of the individual clubs. The body of the home page is organized into 4 columns. This page is replaced whenever you select other topics from the “SHOW ME” button. To return to the home page, click the Rotary Wheel.
Column 1 (from Left margin)
Governor’s section.
Click on the links to find further more detailed information. The Link to the “Fog Horn” is found here.
Column 2
News of projects within the District.
Column 3
Calendar of Events in the District. Blue text that changes to brown when the mouse cursor passes over it indicates that there is a link where further detail may be found.
Column 4
Club Announcements are placed here. By following the links you will find flyers and further information on these events.
Detail of Navigation TABS: UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER
CLUB LOCATOR
List of all the clubs of District
Map Finder
Meeting Schedule
LINKS
Rotary International
RI Portal
Zone 23/24
Acrobat Reader
CONTACT US
District Governor
Webmaster
District Bulletin Editors
SEARCH
Google search for the district website
Detail of Navigation Tabs: Upper left hand
ABOUT ROTARY
District Governor
Governor's newsletter
District Governor Elect
DGE’s newsletter
District Governor Nominee
Zone 23/24 Director
Past Governors
List of DG's to 1995
District History
MEMBERSHIP
More Information
About Rotary
Reasons
Cost of Rotary
Contact Committee
THE FOUNDATION
Ambassadorial Scholarship
Alumni
Grants
Matching
Simplified application
GSE
From GSE Chair
The Committee
Outbound 2008
Peace Scholarships
Paul Harris Society
Signup Form
History
Brochure
Polio Plus
Annual Giving
Permanent Fund
SERVICES
Community
Literacy
Rotaract
Rotary Community Corps
Rotary Fellowship
Vocational
From the Chair
Interact
Registration
From the Interact Chair
RYLA
Speech contest
Poster
Handbook
International
Humanitarian
International Convention
Rotary Youth Exchange
World Community Service
ADMINISTRATION
Communicator
Club
Speaker Bureau
Online Makeup 1
Online Makeup 2
Club Bulletins
Personal Information
Training
District Assembly
Membership Introduction
Foundation Chairs
STRS: Overview
STRS: Brochure
STRS: Overview
STRS: Presentation
Events
District Scheduled Events
DG Visit Schedule
Council/Legislation
Preliminary Report
Downloads
RI Event Insurance
District Reimbursement
Awards package (Word)
Awards Package (PDF)
Simplified Grants
Budget 2007 2008
PUBLICITY
Newsletters
Newsletter 0707
Newsletter 0807
Newsletter 0907
Newsletter 1007
Newsletter 1107
Newsletter 1207
Calendars
District Calendars
Downloads
Public Relations
Letter of Introduction
Five Easy Steps
Billboards
Resources
Style Manual
Budget 2007 2008