PkVz Tutorial Part 1: The Home
I start the PkVz tutorial with a description of the Home page and its functions.
Right now the user can perform many actions through the Home. Many of them are pretty obvious and useful but I think there’s one we should specially comment.
First of all let’s say that the home informs you about your requests and, through the News feeds, about what your friends have done in PkVz. You should receive feeds about what groups your friends have joined, what hands posted and commented, blog’s posts, duels, the new friends of them, events they’re attending, photos, videos… So in general through them you’ll be informed about most of the activities your friends have done in PkVz (exceptions are, of course, those things that your friends didn’t want to publicy in any Feed, which something that can be decided by every user).
The other main thing in the Home is the calendar. There’s no need to go to the Calendar tab in order to check what are the events, tournaments, duels or even challenges about to expire. Green day boxes will let you know that there’s something remarkable happening; then you can just click on the calendar and you’ll be redirected to the current month and get further information about what’s going to happen. We will return to the calendar in other tutorial part.
Anyway, below the calendar there are three boxes that will tell you what’s about to happen.
Below the request box, on the left side of the screen you’ll find a box to invite friends. This is a Private Beta so the number of invitations is now limited to three. If you don’t know people to invite (maybe because you’re new in the poker world) you may communicate that to your friends in PkVz; perhaps they would need more invitations.
Below there’s another important part of the Home page now during the first PkVz’ steps. There’s a feedback box where the user can inform the PkVz’ team about possible improvements. Imo this is an essential part. I don’t how people got into PkVz, but I think that is kind of a privilege to be inside something like this. Of course I’m not telling that the user has some sort of moral duty of giving feedback; I mean that if you like the application and you’re using it you may want it to become better, so it’ll only a few minutes to write a report.
Below this upper part of the home there’s a section that I consider the most innovative and interesting function of the Home. The user can use PkVz as it was some kind of Feed Reader, so he’ll receive RSS of those blogs or webs he decide to subscribe. Example: I’m a regular reader of Ed Miller’s blog Noted Poker Authority (if any of you knows Ed, please tell him to join us!!! 
Anyway I’ll create an Ed Fan Site soon!). Well I can subscribe to his blog through PkVz and see what are the latest posts in the PkVz’ Home. This should be possible for every blog and website that have an RSS system. In fact, you could check what’s new on the poker world just taking a look at you Home.
The way to add content right now may be confusing for some users, so I think an explanation can be useful. You’ll find a button to add content. Clicking on it a window will be displayed asking you an URL. If you paste de URL of the site you want to add you’ll receive a message telling you that you must insert a valid URL. What’s the valid URL? Say you’re on Noted Poker Authority. You shouldn’t copy the URL of the blog. You need to click on the orange button on the right of the URL in the navigation bar. Then copy the URL of the RSS and paste it on the PkVz add content window. This way you’ll start to receive RSS from that site and get the latest news on the PkVz’ Home.
Finally, below the websites you’ll find a Poukker section. Poukker is another website. It’s like a poker Twitter. I suggest you to go and create a profile. You’ll be able to subscribe to other users’ posts, so you’ll receive them on PkVz. I think Poukker is an interesting tool to comment things like a tournament being played at that moment, in a better way than in a forum. Whatever you think about Twitter it applies to Poukker. For those who don’t know what Twitter is… well, it’s some kind of thing between a forum and a chat. That is: something useful for non-inmediate purpouse, but still fast comments.
Those are right now the actions that can be performed through the Home.
I hope this helped you someway.
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