User's Guidedlutek.com

1. PRIVACY & 'COOKIES'

Initial call-to-action prompt window regarding cookies

When you visit our portal for the first time or after prolonged absence, and/or after deleting "cookies", you will see the following prompt window:

If you are familiar with the Internet-specific concept of "cookies", you can decide whether to immediately click the SAVE & CLOSE button, which will give me permission to use only the essential cookies I need to run our portal. Or, you can select those optional cookies that you want to be used in addition to the essential ones – and then click the SAVE & CLOSE button.

However, if you do not know what it’s all about, click the PRIVACY POLICY link, which will lead you to the page, where the cookies are explained in detail. This will make it easier for you to make an important informed decision. I highly recommend reading the explanations on the PRIVACY POLICY.

After closing the above window, you will be ready to dive in through the PORTAL.

Privacy-rules on the Family Portal

By the way, you can also get to the PRIVACY POLICY and PRIVACY & SECURITY NEWS pages at any time – from the top navigation menu.

There is a very good reason why PRIVACY pages are placed prominently in the main navigation menu of every page. Even though our rules of privacy may annoy some of you, they are here to protect you and me from hackers, data miners and unwanted visitors. I don’t want to get into details right here, because you can read all about that on the PRIVACY POLICY page.

BTW, while we are looking at the main navigational menu bar, here’s what we are seeing, from the left:

• Website logo – regardless of which page you are on, clicking this emblem will always lead you to the home (start) page of the dlutek.com portal.
• PRIVACY POLICY – a page with important information about how our website treats our guests' right to privacy. You can also manage cookies here.
• PRIVACY NEWS – a page with RSS news feeds regarding latest threats, scams, malware, etc. (we will get to it later in detail).
• LOGIN area (we will get to it later in detail).
• 3 FLAGS – these serve as language version switchers (we will get to it later in detail).

Comprehensive cookie management on the PRIVACY POLICY page

On the PRIVACY POLICY page, in the COOKIE MANAGEMENT chapter, you will see a table showing cookies used by our dlutek.com Family Portal. You will notice that some cookies are placed on the green background. Those can not be deleted, because they are essential to the functionality of this website. All others can be deleted.

Once they are deleted, you will again see the prompt shown in Image #1.

Individual cookie management on the FAMILY-section pages

If, at first, you decide to allow only essential cookies to be used, you will find some pages that include red notices regarding hidden optional content, like in the Image #4. That content can only be viewed if you click the green button associated with each notice, giving me your consent to use specific optional cookies.

Once you click a green consent button, the page will reload with an optional content replacing the red notice.

4. Login/Logout menu and action

As you look at the main navigation bar, you’ll see some other items. Hover your cursor over the LOGIN field in the bar:

• USER GUIDE – That page is where you can find the same information that is contained in the PDF document you are reading right now.
• LOGIN – You must log in to be able to use the main FAMILY section of the website. If you don't have an account yet, send me an email.
• FLAGS – 3 language versions (German, Polish and English) for family members living in different countries. Clicking the selected flag changes the language version of the content. From that point on, the portal will remember which language version you have chosen and which one should be displayed every time you come back to dlutek.com website.

Two basic sections of our Family Portal

1. PORTAL – for all viewers: PORTAL, USER’S GUIDE, WHAT'S NEW?, SECURITY NEWS, PRIVACY POLICY and LOGIN. Links to these pages can be found at the bottom of the page you are currently viewing. Most of those links are also contained in the main top navigation menu.
2. FAMILY – only for registered users. The FAMILY section consists of many subsections and has its own inner navigation accessible for logged-in members.

To be able to enter the FAMILY section, meant for people with an account, you must log-in first. If you try to use your "bookmarks" or direct addresses of pages inside the FAMILY section before logging in, you will be automatically directed to the LOGIN page.

In addition, please note that the DOCUMENTS, GENOGRAPHY and parts of FAMILY ALBUM subsections are only available to family members. Family friends and others do not have access to those pages even if they are logged in.

To log-in

Hover over the main navigation bar and select LOGIN item, as shown in Image #6. A new window will open where you need to enter your login information:

• As the illustration above shows, in the first field you enter Username or email address that was used to register your account with the FAMILY.
• In the second field, enter the password that I sent you when registering your account in the FAMILY.
• In the third field (labeled with an arrow), enter the letter-code that you see to the right of this field. This function ensures that logging in is not attempted by robots.

If you want your name (or email) and password to be remembered, check the box next to the question "Remember me?". In this case, at subsequent sessions, Username and Password will be filled in automatically for you and you will only need to fill in the third field (letter-code). This saves a few seconds of your life, but also creates the possibility that unwanted people can log into your account without your knowledge or consent, if they have access to your computer. Therefore, I do not recommend using this feature.

Logging-in trouble?

In case you have problems with logging in, or have forgotten your Username or Password, click the link with the word “Forgotten?" situated next to the LOGIN button. After the window gets automatically refreshed, fill in your User Name and the letter-code and click “Forgotten?" again (this is important!).

After the page refreshes again, you will see confirmation saying that your new password has been sent to your registered email address. That address will be shown in the Username field at the top of the form.

New password activation

After few moments, check your email, where you should find a message with the new password ready for use. Before you go ahead and use this new password, you must click the activation link in the message. Only then, you can login with the new password. If you wish, after logging in, go to the ACCOUNT UPDATE page and change the password to something you prefer (stronger version of a password is highly recommended). In any case, try not to forget what your password is. Better yet, use a password manager app, like 1 Password or similar.

After a successful logging-in, you will be automatically directed to the WHAT'S NEW? page, where you will find information about the latest changes in the portal. That is your starting point inside the FAMILY section.

To log-out manually

Hover over the LOGIN area of the main navigational menu and select the LOGOUT item.

This will open the new page with the LOGOUT prompt:

At this point, you can decide to either immediately logout by clicking the link, or press the black button to continue your session. If you log out, the new window will open with the confirmation of your action:

Again, if you just logged out but now have a second thought, you can press the button to go back to the LOGIN page.

Usually, you can skip manual logging out, because this is done automatically when you close your browser, or after a prolonged inaction on a page. But, if you want to get logged out immediately, there is no harm in doing so manually.

5. Updating/deleting your account

To update your account’s information

Hover over the LOGIN menu area and select the ACCOUNT UPDATE menu item.

A window will open, where you can change the password of your account that will be used to log in to the FAMILY section. You can also change the subscription status of emails coming from the Family Portal. These emails inform about changes taking place on our website. Usually, there is no more than 12 emails a year, sometimes just a handful of them.

To delete your account

Select the ACCOUNT DELETE menu item from the main navigation bar.

A window will open, where you have a second chance to decide whether to delete, or go back and continue using your account.

Your name, username, email address and password will be immediately and permanently deleted after clicking the DELETE ACCOUNT button. At that time, a new window will open, saying that the account has been removed from our system and a final email confirming the deletion of the account will be sent to the address associated with your account.

6. Entering the FAMILY section after logging in

As I mentioned before, after a successful LOGIN, you will be automatically directed to the WHAT’S NEW? blog page, where there are posts about “goings on” on the Family Portal. Formally, this page is a part of the PORTAL section, because you don’t need to be logged in to have access to it. This page serves as a “bridge” between the PORTAL and the FAMILY sections because it is also the first page including the inner navigation used inside the FAMILY section.

As you can see, blog posts in this subsection are only available in Polish language (as of now and possibly forever).

After logging in, you can use your "bookmarks" or internal navigation intended only for logged-in persons, to which you have access on each page in the FAMILY section. This is an additional navigation bar located directly below the main navigation bar at the top of the page, as shown in the above image.

Navigational elements

You’ve already seen the main navigation menu bar and the inner navigation menu bar dedicated solely to the FAMILY section. But there are other navigational elements as well.

Let’s start with the most obvious ones.

Scrolling a window “below-the-fold”

Instead of scrolling a page, click the down-pointing arrow at the bottom of the window to send you directly to a portion of content that is hidden below the bottom edge of your browser (below-the-fold).

Scrolling a chapter-window to the top

A general note on scrolling major and minor windows with a lot of content: in major windows, you can jump directly to the top when you click (or tap) the "Last update" part of a footer (shown in Image #5). In minor windows (chapters), you can use an up-arrow placed at the bottom of content.

In any case, this method of quick scrolling is most useful on tablets and especially on phones, where pages become much longer than on desktop monitors.

Navigation between chapters of a subsection

The image above shows navigation bars/buttons placed at the bottom of subsection chapters. These bars help you switch chapters quickly, without need for going back to the main page of a subsection.

Inner navigation window

When you click the inner navigation bar shown in Image #17, an inner menu window will open, where you can select any page belonging to the FAMILY section.

If you decide against leaving your most recent page, you can click the “X” in the upper right corner (or click ‘esc’ key on your keyboard) to close the menu window and stay where you were.

Navigation between galleries of photos

In subsections ALBUM, SNAPSHOTS and ABSTRACTIONS there are local auxiliary navigational elements for switching between galleries of photos and/or videos.

After clicking that auxiliary local navigation bar, a new window will open, where by hovering over individual thumbnail images, you will see the gallery’s number and name. If you click any of them, you will be transported to that gallery.

7. Special circumstances

FILE SHARING page

There is a special page in the FAMILY section where you can share your photos, short videos, documents and such with the rest of us. Simply drag your zipped files onto the target area of the window in your browser.

Please, note, that all of your files for upload must be zipped (compressed) and their names can only include legal (unaccented) characters. There are no spaces allowed in the names. If you need, you can replace any spaces with hyphens “-“. If these conditions are not met, your upload will fail.

Uploaded materials will be visible only to persons who are logged in to their accounts.

COMMUNIQUE page

Another special page you may be automatically directed to in case some kind of error occurs, is the COMMUNIQUE page where you will see what the problem is.

ARCHIVE page

One more special page in the FAMILY section is the ARCHIVE. This page is dedicated to a person(s) who will graciously agree to continue working on our Family Portal when I will no longer be able to. I think that future generations of our “clan” will appreciate that a lot.

In the ARCHIVE, I place all materials needed to replicate, develop and edit the existing website.

To be able to access that page, you will need to contact me and offer your service as a future custodian/developer of our Family Portal.