1. Enter your valid email address and your choice of password below. Your email address will be your login ID. Use only lower case (small) letters or numbers in the password. NO SPACES! Both of these items are required.

2. Enter your business or store name and a one-paragraph description of your business below. Do not leave blank lines in the description. Both of these items are required.

3. Enter up to 25 keywords or keyword pharases that relate directly to the kinds of items you sell in your listings, store or on your website. Separate each keyword or keyword phrase with a comma like this: keyword1,keyword phrase 1,keyword phrase 2,keyword2 -- do not leave spaces after the commas. This item and all remaining items are optional. Leave blank if not to be included.

4. Enter the URL for a self-hosted picture to display on our home page. This picture will be displayed at 120 pixels wide. Your actual picture can be larger but it should not be more than 400 pixels wide. It will be resized in the HTML so large pictures will be slow loading. It is best if you resize it before hosting.

5. Enter the URL for a banner to be displayed on your information page and to be available for exchange with others. This banner must be exactly 468x60 pixels in size. Entries for banners other than this size will be deleted. Do not use HTML. No 'img src' or 'a href'. This is for the URL to the banner ONLY! It is not a link.

6. Enter the URL for up to three pictures that are representative of the items you sell. These pictures will display at 210 pixels wide so they should be sized to, or close to, that width. Do not use HTML. No 'img src' or 'a href'. This is for the URL to the banner ONLY! It is not a link.

7. Enter the URL for your primary website and for your blog if you have them. DO NOT enter eBay or other selling site pages here.

8. Enter the URL for each of your selling sites below as indicated. If you do not find the specific entry you need, use 'other' for now and let us know your requirement. We will likely be able to add it to our selection.

Note About eBay URLs: did you know that those long eBay URLs like this:
http://stores.ebay.com/YourStoreName_W0QQsspagenameZMEQ3aFQ3aSTQQtZkm
can be shortened to this: http://stores.ebay.com/YourStoreName by just deleting everything from, and including, the first underscore to the end.

9. Enter the URL for each of your community and promotional sites below as indicated. If you do not find the specific entry you need, use 'other' for now and let us know your requirement. We will likely be able to add it to our selection.

10. Enter the URL for up to five friends or favorite links below.

11. Tell us about how you found us. It helps us to know if you heard about us on a specific discussion forum, saw one of our banners or ads, were told about us by a friend, etc. Please write a few words to let us know.

12. This section is a basic security function. It helps prevent spammers using automated software (bots) from flooding our site with unwanted entries. You'll have to do a little simple arithmetic. Add the number indicated to the number shown and enter the result in the box provided.
    
    example: if the number shown is 43852 then 43852 + 3 = 45855 so enter 45855 in the box.

And Put The Result Here:    

13. When you have the form completed click the 'submit info' button to enter your information into the registry database. For now, and dependent on the future actions of users, entered information will be immediately available to others, though any unsuitable entries will be removed. Each entry will be manually approved for permanent inclusion in the registry.