Join to access the community section of the site where you can connect with other riders.

S | O freecarvers.com is the only alpine snowboarding dedicated community site on the net where you get a web page on which you can share some information about you and to which you can upload photos, videos, sounds and other files.

Your Rider Page is set up automatically and displays your uploaded contents and it also got a direct address you can give out to family and friends . . . freecarvers.com/riders/username . . .

Our community is semi-private by default in that non members cannot access a general overview of Riders or uploaded contents. Whoever knows the direct address of your Rider Page or specific contents can view it though without having to be a member of the site.

You can however restrict access to your Rider Page or specific contents in your privacy settings.

Once you have confirmed your registration (via the confirmation email that is sent to you after registration) and your account is active you can start using community features.

Click on "Avatar" to upload one and leave the "copy to profile photos" option checked to also spice up your Rider Page with your uploaded picture.

You can upload or shoot photos . . . upload or embed (Youtube) or record videos . . . upload or record sounds . . . upload other files . . .

Uploading works similar for any type of file so check out the example of uploading a video below.

After clicking "Videos" on the site navigation bar the Videos overview page also got buttons for your own uploads.

Click on "My Albums" to administer exactly them . . .

One album is set up by default (username's videos) . . . use it or create a couple of other albums to organize your uploads . . . since only you can see empty albums in your administration there is no absolute need to delete the default album unless you want to.

Click on the album you want to add videos to and then . . .

Click the suggested link to add videos and get to the upload page . . .

Choose an uploader option . . . flash and regular basically do the same . . . record activates your webcam so you can shoot and store a video . . . embed is the quickest option to 'upload' a video you already have online at Youtube . . .

(after entering / pasting the Youtube clip page address you might need to do a click outside the input field before you can click on "Continue")

Once your clip is uploaded or embedded you can enter / change its title and description.

SELECT ONE OF THE AVAILABLE CATEGORIES for your clip and further categorize it if you want by adding tags as you like.

Since you are welcome to also upload clips about other decent topics than snowboarding an accurate categorization is mandatory so that videos can be found and viewed in a convenient way that makes sense.

You can also "Manage" your videos and "Organize" them to change the order in which they appear in an album.

Uploaded videos need to be processed on the server and depending on their original format and size this might take long enough for you to enjoy a coffee break. Once the video is ready for viewing it will show up on the site and you can also change the video information anytime by clicking the "Edit" button on the video's viewing page.

Already on sign up you can state your gear and favorite resorts and you can add further infos by editing your profile . . . go to your "Profile" page and "Edit" your "Rider Info" to discover an additional "..." option where you can enter any text you like . . .

Or start a blog to share your thoughts . . . similar to uploading media first go to the "Blogs" home page via the main navigation bar and then click the "My Blog" button. You can enter a general brief description and start posting right away. When creating a post you can attach one photo by using the upload "Associated Image" option. Of course you can upload a lot of photos and create a lot of albums in the photos section of the site so you may want to do that first and then you can embed a couple of images or simply include a link to a related album in your posts.

Unlike on several other sites (check their fine print) you remain the exclusive copyright owner of your work after uploading it to the site . . .

Copyright is something that comes into being automatically with your work so there is no need to register your work as copyrighted anywhere and also there is not even a need to attach a copyright notice in any way, shape or form.

Just be aware that this also goes for the work of others so uploading and therefore distributing anything without an explicit permission from the copyright owner would break the law.

You solely are responsible for determining whether you have the right to distribute content by uploading it to the site.

Contact us in case you would like further assistence or have any other questions or feedback.