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Baby Sweeps at BabyPool.com are interactive web pages where guests get involved and become participants in a
private baby sweep. On the left side of the Baby Sweep Page is the Sweep Page
Menu, and on the right you will find the BabyPool.com Sweep Matrix.
The Baby Sweep Page menu starts with a link to the baby
sweep's Baby Sweep Home
Page so that your guests and participants can get back to your
baby sweep
home. The second menu item is a listing of the current blocks
selected for reservation, we will get to reserving blocks in a
moment. When there are no blocks currently selected for
reservation this section will display "No new blocks to reserve". When
blocks have been selected for reservation a listing of the blocks
selected will appear. This list will contain the information
about each block as well as a link to delete it before it is
reserved. Once a block is reserved only the baby sweeps
administrator can delete it. When there are blocks listed to be
reserved a Reserve Blocks button is visible below the list of
blocks. After a participant has finished selecting all of their
blocks to be reserved they must click this button so that the blocks
will be recorded.
Regardless of what type of baby sweeps you setup, time
based baby sweeps
or weight and length based baby sweeps at the top of the Sweep Matrix is
a Sweep Matrix Legend. This Legend displays the different colors
of blocks that can be found on an active Sweep Matrix. If the baby
sweep is a time based sweep the first color in the legend is yellow.
Yellow blocks denote the expected day of birth. Blocks that are
available to be reserved are displayed in a more neutral almond
color. Should you happen to be selecting blocks for reservation
at the same time as other participants the blocks that others are
reserving will appear in a dark teal and the blocks you have selected
to be reserved will appear in a dark gray. After blocks have been
reserved and they are "owned" by a participant they will appear in blue
if they are owned by you or pink if owned by another participant. In a
time based babysweep the blocks will become a darker shade with the
passing of time and will become "locked" or unable to be reserved
because they no longer have a chance to be a winning block.
The type of baby sweep you setup at BabyPool.com will
determine the type
of Sweep Matrix that is displayed on your Baby Sweep Page. A time
based baby sweep will show days displayed horizontally in rows and hours
of the day displayed vertically in columns. Weight and
length baby sweeps show weight displayed horizontally in rows and length
displayed vertically in columns. In a time based baby sweep one
block is one hour in a day, and each block displays the hour it
corresponds to. In weight and length based baby sweeps one block is
an inch or centimeter of length to the set weight of a column. In
a weight and length based baby sweep the sweep administrator can set the
units of measure for the babysweep to be English (inches, pounds,
ounces) or Metric (centimeters, kilograms).
At the four corners of the Sweep Matrix are buttons to
move the Sweep
Matrix either forward or backward. In time based baby
sweeps the Forward button will move the ahead in time in increments of 5
days, equal to 5 blocks. While the Back button will move the back
in time in increments of 5 days, equal to 5 blocks. In weight
and length based baby sweeps the Forward button will move the Sweep Matrix
ahead an increment of 1 pound or .45 kilograms or equal to 16
blocks and the Back button will move the Sweep matrix back an increment
of 1 pound or .45 kilograms or equal to 16 blocks.
When a guest or participant views a Sweep Matrix for the
first time they
will see that the Sweep Matrix is centered on the expected day of birth
if it is a time based baby sweep, and centered between 7 pounds 7 ounces
and 7 pounds 8 ounces ( 3.377 kilograms and 3.405 kilograms) if the
baby sweep is based on weight and length.
To reserve blocks in the Sweep Matrix a guest will click
on the link in
each block they would like to reserve. When the link is clicked
the page is refreshed and the block that was clicked changes color and
is locked so that no one else may reserve it.
After the guest has
finished selecting all of the blocks that they would like to reserve
they must click the Reserve Blocks button in the menu on the
left. After clicking the Reserve Blocks button the guest will be
displayed a form for them to fillout so that their blocks can be
reserved in their name. The form requires the guests first and
last name and e-mail address. The guest can also veture a guess
as to what sex they think the baby will be and there are input fields
for the guest to suggest names for the baby, one field for girl names
and one field for boy names. The guest can submit as many names
as they would like by separating each name with a comma. For
example:
Jason, John, Donald
When a guest has finished filling out the form they must click the
Continue button for their information to be recorded and their blocks
to be reserved. After the Continue button is pressed the
participant will be redirected back to the Baby Sweep Page where they
will see that their newly reserved blocks are now the color blue and
locked so that no one else can reserve the same block.
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