Clicking on "Become a Member" in the horizontal navigation for volunteers takes you first to the "About Membership" page.

This page is fully editable in HandsOn Connect's static page (WYSIWYG) editor.  This is where you can explain basic information on what volunteering for your organization is about.

At the end of this content, you may want to post a link or instruct the reader to click on the "Sign Up/ Registration" item in the left navigation. This will take them to the sign up page.

1. Captures basic info about volunteer.  Volunteers can also upload a photo of themselves which should be 113 x 113 pixels (square).

2. Contact Info

3. Login Info & Communication preferences:

• These will serve as the login and password for returning to the website  (Your email address becomes your login ID)
• "Do you accept invitations" refers to accepting invitations from organizations finding matches to your skill profile.
• Communications preferences have to do with accepting newsletters, etc from you and from HandsOn Network. They are opted in by default, but a user can opt out of either.  (They cannot opt out of system-based emails like sign-up confirmations, reminders, etc. that are generated by the sytem).

4. Demographic and volunteer options, and volunteer availability grid are optional during registration.  Click on the + symbol to open up these options.

5. Additional questions are where custom registration questions for volunteers appear. These may or may not be required based on the settings when you define these questions.

6. The terms and conditions can be customized to include local terms and conditions.

7. Clicking submit completes the registration process, and sends a confirmation email to the volunteer.