| Blog Post Published on: | 17th July 2025 |
| Title: | Instructions for Accessing the MyCirclePines Website |
| Lead Author: | Fred M Beshears |
| Type of Blog Post: | mycirclepines_website |
1) Here's the URL to the website with all of the photos: https://mycirclepines.org
Also, here's the brief introduction you'll find on the MyCirclePines Home Page. (You'll arrive at the Home Page when you enter the URL above.
MyCirclePines is not one of CPC's official websites.
Instead, MyCirclePines is primarily intended to be a searchable digital archive of CPC photos. To find out more, click on the About tab.
To see the photos on this website, you need to be logged in.
And, to login, you first need to sign-up to create an account for yourself. (Click on the Account tab.)
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2) When you get to this website, find the menu bar at the top of the page. From left to right, here are the items you can click on there:
MyCPC, About, Videos, Albums, Locations, Persons, and Account.
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3) To see the photos at MyCirclePines, you'll need to have an account. To establish an account (assuming you do not already have one), click on the "Account" menu bar item. This should bring up a drop-down menu of two items: 1) Log In and 2) Sign Up
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4) To sign up for a new account, click on the Sign Up item
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5) On the Sign Up Page, enter one of your email addresses that we can use if you forget your password, and enter the password you would like to use to access your MyCirclePines account.
Note that you should NOT reuse the password to your email account. Think of something different for your MyCirclePines account password.
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6) When you finish setting up your MyCirclePines account, you'll be able to see the photos archived at MyCirclePines.
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7) Check out the photo albums stored at MyCirclePines
First, get oriented by returning to the MyCirclePines Home Page by clicking on the MyCPC menu bar item.
Second, from the MyCPC Home Page you can drill down to other parts of the MyCirclePines website. For example, you can find a list of the photo albums by clicking on the Albums menu item. From here, you can click on the Tag Name for a particular photo to see that photo. For example, if you click on the "bill_knox" tag name, you'll get a list of the photos in that album. The title of the first photo in that album is "Bill Knox by the CPC gas pump." If you click on that title, you'll get one of our neat photos of Bill. On this page, you can use the Navigation Links to go to either the Next or the Previous photos in the album. For example, if you click on the Next link, you'll go to the group photo of the folks who attended the Bill Knox Memorial in 1973. From here, you can find a list of "People" photo tags. By clicking on a tag of one of these people (e.g. fred_m_beshears), you'll get a list of all of the photos where this person appears.
Third, as you drill down into, and navigate around in, the MyCirclePines website, you should always see the menu bar at the top of the page. By clicking on MyCPC menu item, you can go back to the top of the MyCirclePines website (i.e. the MyCirclePines Home Page).
Fourth, you can also search for photos by entering a text string in the search box on the right-hand side of the search bar. For example, if you enter "Beshears" in the box and click on the Search button, you'll get a list of photos where the string "Beshears" appears.
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8) Finally, this ends my somewhat brief introduction to the MyCirclePines website.