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The rollover menu refines the display, that is, from the default which is a range of most recent entries, to instead highlight only new material from some place, topic, or style of content, giving you more in depth links bearing on more concerns.

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ZSpace gives members, writers, and sustainers, their own ZSpace pages. It gives participants blogs access and even your own blogs, forums access and posting, uploading quotes, lyrics, graphics, poetry, and articles, mutual aid access and use, books and film preferences entry, ability to comment on content throughout the site, discounts in our store, extensive rss feeds, and much more.

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These sites are maintaned by a staff of two, Chris Spannos and Michael Albert, plus numerous volunteers.

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Welcome to Z Communications.

This is a large and diverse site. We recommend that you just play around a bit, looking at some links off the top splash page, and off ZNet and ZSpace.

Try some place and topic pages, for example, and then try the writers page, the blogs, ZSpace, and then perhaps also the forums, the audio and video sections, and so on, to get a feel for what is available.

Just prowl around, at first, and it will enhance your experience of the site later. Then try the search facility, a very powerful tool for finding specific content.

Note that you can toggle the submenu to the tabs at the top of each page on and off with the red/green arrow in the row of tabs. We think having the submenus on, displaying automatically when you roll over the tabs, is vastly better for quick and easy navigation, but some people will prefer more viewing area. Try using the tabs, first, though, please.

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There are multiple donation and membership levels to become a ZSustainer and thus a ZSpace participant, ranging from free to paid, which provide access to a wide variety of features and services.

Click Join ZSpace to see the donation levels and, should you decide to support us and enjoy the many benefits, to fill out the membership form.

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