Member Tutorial

How to make full use of your Rate the Grapes account

So you're the proud owner of a Rate the Grapes account - congrats!  Now what, you ask?  Pour yourself a glass, relax, and sit down with this quickstart guide for a minute to get started.

Forget your password?

If you ever forget your password, all you need to do is click on member login in the main menu, and then select the "request new password" tab. You'll be given a new password which you can then change to one of your liking by logging in and clicking the "edit" tab on your account. If that doesn't work, contact us and we'll help you out (if you ask nicely

My Account

When you first login, you will be taken to your account page.  On this page you will see a listing of tabs:

The view tab (the default selection) will show you your profile. Click the edit tab to modify your profile. You can change your username and password, upload a picture, and access your personal and wine profiles. The track tab is described next.

Tracking your favorite wine selections

This brings us to the main reason for your membership. You can use the track tab to track comments you've made on any articles - be that a wine review, wine event, etc. Our favorite use of this feature is to add comments to wines we like - we then have them readily available when we want to remember what wines we like, and by clicking on each link on the track page, we can access the comments we made when we tasted the wine.

creating wine reviews

If you want to review a wine that has not yet been reviewed, you can create a wine review by selecting create content -> wine review in your admin menu (your admin menu is located at the very top left of your screen):

This will take you to a page where you can create a wine review by filling in the following:

• Title - Use a descriptive title that describes your varietal, such as "Seghesio Zinfandel 2006"
• Categories - Categorize your wine so it can be found easily later by choosing its varietal, color, and blend.
• Wine Info - Next, fill in the wine's varietal, year, vineyard, geographic origin, and price. If you're not sure of the price, take a guess.
• Rating - Rate your overall impression of the wine on a scale of 1 - 6 stars, with 1 being wet, moldy dog and 6 being orgasmic.
• Teaser - your wine review will be published on the front page of Rate the Grapes! The teaser is a summary of your review that will appear on the front page.
• Notes - Here is where you give a detailed review of the wine. Write away to your heart's content!

Page editor buttons

You'll notice a bar of page editor buttons when you create a wine review:

To apply formatting, first select your text, and then click a button. From left to right, the buttons are:

• Cut - cut content out of your page.
• Paste - paste content into your page from elsewhere (ie. a Word document)
• Format - use these predefined headings to organize your tasting notes. Heading 1 is the main heading, heading 2 is a sub-heading, and so on.
• Bold - creates bold text.
• Italic - creates italic text.
• Numbered list - creates a numbered list.
• Bulleted list - creates a bulleted list.
• Insert link - insert a link to another webpage or website.
• Remove link - remove a link.
• Align text - you can justify text by aligning it to the left, center, or right.

Save your work!

When you are finished, make sure you click the submit button at the bottom of the page to save your work.