What is this site all about?

First and foremost, it is a lifestyle that many of us try to embrace. We want to surround ourselves with a good environment and be able to live a high quality life. We also find ourselves trying to be more frugal but as we do so we discover that it's not necessary to spend vast amounts of money to find the joys of life. Many good aspects of life come from positive changes in lifestyle and habit. No one will deny that money is fun, but here at econoliving we find happiness by knowing more and spending less.

Econoliving is a socially balanced, collaborative community.
What does this mean?

This site is powered by its users. Anyone can post content. Anyone can rate any content posted. This means that the site is self-moderated by peers. If you like what someone wrote, you give it a thumbs up. If you don't like it - thumbs down. It's that simple. The most liked content gets published to the front page for the world to see. This is how econoliving gives everyone a fair chance to have their thoughts published and shared and why econoliving is a great place to visit. All the front page content will be approved by a large group of users so you know there will be good things to read or look at.

What do you mean by posting content?

There are many ways to add content and many different topics that the content can cover. Adding content can be done by:

• Submitting stories from other sites
• Asking questions in the forum
• Answering questions in the forum
• Writing blog entries
• Commenting on blog entries
• Posting pictures
• Commenting on pictures
• Just marking good and bad things with the thumbs up and thumbs down icons

Topics are not limited but should be about things that people like you can relate to. When searching for a topic, just think, "What have I felt really happy about recently?" Would it help others if you told them about it? Common Topics are:

• Interior Design and Decorating
• Furniture and Housewares
• Clothing and Fashion
• Activities and Local Communities
• Food and Restaurants
• Travel and Vacations
• Pets
• Children
• Jobs/Work

The list could go on and on. Just post whatever you believe will be valuable to others.

Blogging Style and Guidelines

Informative, well-written entries will usually get moderated up and appear on the front page. A well-written entry is usually one that is well-structured with a good lead-in paragraph or 2, called the "summary." The summaryis the part that is shown on the front page and in article indexes. You can write your summary and then just click "split summary at cursor" which will then take care of that for you. After your summary, a good article is usually structured into detailed sections and often accompanied by a few photos. Writing in first person is acceptable but if discussing one's self isn't preferred, a third-person style will work well. Please preview and edit any errors so that the articles are free of spelling mistakes and grammatical problems.

Site administrators and editors reserve the right to correct mistakes and change content structure to conform to standards. Any obvious hate, overtly negative or libelous entries will be deleted.

How do I get started?

1. If you haven't created an account already, do that here.
2. Introduce yourself and see what everyone's talking about in the econoliving forums.
3. If you've got something you'd like to write and it's rather long, write a blog entry for it.
4. Browse the blogs, forums and galleries and rate content that you like or dislike (thumbs up, thumbs down). You're doing the world a favor!
5. Hopefully you will find lots of useful information all over the site.

Questions? Feedback? Contact Us.

Enjoy!

EconoAdmin