When you look at your page you won't see your message button. Others can see it when they click on your name and go to your page. Go to your friends' pages and you will see their 'message' buttons if they set it up for messaging. I see the two buttons on your page, 'Follow' and 'Message'. I'll send you something now.

You guys are great :) thanks to everybody.

vaflowernut,

I sent you a message about 6 hours ago. My guess is that you probably don't have your profile set to send you an email alert whenever you get a message. Having messaging enabled is of little use. without having the email notifications.

Please check your messages and then also check your email profile settings, and let me know how they are set.

Sue

The Message button is shown on Your Houzz page. Don't click on the Edit Profile selection...click just above that. Hope this helps. :-)

Chemocurl, it'll be best if you can post Sticky Notes to the GW forums that always stay on top, and give newbies guidelines and help on trading and what not. I tried to message Emily or Tamara but they don't have the Message button! I have never heard back from gardenweb@houzz.com.

Chemocurl, I got your message and sent you a thank you back through messages.

Tulsa rose, I got it all set up. thanks.

My post above was a sincere thank you to everybody, I had like 6 messages sent to me and I sent a personal thank you to every one through messages, I hope you got them, and I wanted to say a thank you on this post as well.

Sorry if it sounded like a smartty pants. I promise it was not. You guys are great, thanks again.

Carolyn

phylis said, "(Chemocurl,
it'll be best if you can post Sticky Notes to the GW forums that always
stay on top, and give newbies guidelines and help on trading and what
not. I tried to message Emily or Tamara but they don't have the Message
button! I have never heard back from gardenweb@houzz.com."
Per (gw)Tamara) there are still things in the works. Not her words, but I think some 'Special Instructions' similar to what applied on the old GW. FAQ pages will be looked at and reworked.

In the meantime, we can just post links for those needing help with getting trade lists or messaging set up.

Chemocurl, I got your message and sent you a thank you back through messages.
Silly me...suggesting that you get email notifications for whenever you get a message via HOUZZ. I set up sorting in my Hotmail account and all Houzz messages go to a HOUZZ folder instead of the INBOX. Silly me, hadn't checked the folder to see if I maybe had any messages. I read yours after I had replied above.

Sorry if it sounded like a smartty pants.
Goodness...you did not sound like that. You just sounded like you wanted to verify that you got things set up correctly. I know I was confused when I wasn't able to see the message link on my 'own' page.

Oh...phyllis...Tamara does indeed have a message link...now anyway. see link.

(gw)Tamara