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11/2/2009 6:53 PM
GuildPortal Change Log Entry
11/2/2009 6:53 PM
Custom Event/Raid areas are going live with tonight's code push. Custom Areas provide a way for you to more precisely specify the location of raids/events using your own, events-admin provided info. You can set the title, a description, a URL to a map, and a URL to a screen shot for each location.
When adding or editing events, you will see a new drop-down under the current selector for game areas that will contain your custom ones. Any selection of a custom location will override any selection of a system-provided one. When adding a new area, if it's a game area you believe GP should include in the standard list, please check the "Share newly-added game areas" checkbox in your custom areas editor.
To get starting with this new feature, click the Edit button under your calendar and then click "Custom Areas."
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10/29/2009 5:58 PM
GuildPortal Change Log Entry
10/29/2009 5:58 PM
Custom Post Rank Titles are available with tonight's code push. When set, they appear underneath the number of posts made by members. In order to set the titles, click the Edit button at the bottom of your Forums, and then click "Post Ranks" (it's along the top). The images that are used for the stars are customizable here as well. We know they're accessible elsewhere, but figured they kind of go hand-in-hand with the titles, so we lumped them together.
For those who do their own custom CSS, we've added a class for the area where rank titles appear called "rankTitle," mostly because we have no imagination. A couple days ago we also added classes for quoted text in forums: "quoteTitle," "quoteContainer," and "quoteBody." For those who do not use custom CSS, quoted text in your forums (moving forward) will look a bit better, picking up style from your current settings.
Also, the long fight against the WYSIWYG editor's stubborn refusal to work with pasted custom Javascript in any uniform way from browser to browser is -- or had better be -- finally over. Keep in mind this applies only to admin-level entered content. Javascript entry isn't something the editor will allow in public forum posts, for example.
Rounding out tonight's push are a bunch of fixes for support tickets.
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10/28/2009 7:57 PM
GuildPortal Change Log Entry
10/28/2009 7:57 PM
As of October 2009, GuildPortal has been providing guild hosting and management services for eight years. Over two-hundred and thirty-seven thousand guilds, and their over four million members, have passed through our gates since then. Each day, we are visited by tens of thousands who call GuildPortal their guild's home on the web.
It hasn't been an uneventful eight years, however. The arena we work in is full of examples of guild hosting companies (and even the games they support) falling to complacency, disinterest in the support side of things, or a simple failure to rise to the needs and challenges presented by their clients, the possibly most unique, diverse, and savvy group of people you could hope to meet. They are the guild leaders, officers and members who play Massively Multi-Player Online games.
More, they are participants in a shift at the very core of what we call "entertainment." They live in homes where, with the possible exception of one or two shows, the television has had its one-sided conversation ended with the push of the power button on a remote, in favor of one interactive world or another, where they and their friends are the feature. They demand more and more of the world-building companies as the years go by, pushing said companies to do things they'd before said were just not possible. For example, I personally remember a conference at the E3 where an informed gentleman on a panel told us that clothing would never flow, and grass would never sway, in an MMO.
Along with the demands and desires they have for the games they play, go the requirements they have for the web hosting providers they use for their guild web sites. For the past year, we at GuildPortal have re-focused our attention on what got us so far in the first place -- close contact with the people we serve. Whether through support tickets or via the Admin Community, whether a new feature request or something just not working the way it should, our aim is to work with our admins and members the way we did when it all started -- by making them major decision-makers, an integral part of the team.
We chose to start GuildPortal because we loved what MMOs represent, we continue to do it because of the people whom we feel honored to serve, and we have seen that those who do not (whether game, guild hosting provider, or any other business) find themselves eventually as muted as a television show during raid time.
As always, thank you for making GuildPortal your guild's home on the web!
- Sandy and Aaron Lewis
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10/22/2009 6:32 PM
GuildPortal Change Log Entry
10/22/2009 6:32 PM
A new PayPal Donate Button content type tops the list of changes with tonight's code push. The idea is to make it easy for guild admins to get help with funding for their web site, voice server, Porsche... what have you. And now for the rest of the story:
- Padding along the top of pages was being ignored in some cases. The code has been instructed on how to be more polite.
- The login/state bar was showing up for sites using side navigation even after a user was logged in, which it was not supposed to be doing.
- Password-protected forums were not being included in the forum search. They are included now, but only if you've entered the correct password by attempting to access them directly.
- Forum searching now includes the poster's name and topic titles, as opposed to just post titles.
- Allied guilds will now show up in the Compose Mail tree view.
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10/21/2009 6:37 PM
GuildPortal Change Log Entry
10/21/2009 6:37 PM
Quite a lot going out with tonight's code push:
- Cookies! We're not sharing them, though. You can have the rest of the stuff on the list. They're soft and gooey, by the way.
- Sent items will correctly display read/unread status moving forward.
- The topic tools drop-down menu will now work correctly for all items.
- The WYSIWYG editor will no longer strip out script tags when moving between Design and HTML modes. Keep in mind that it will strip out script tags if you are not editing an administrative-level item, such as a welcome message or Freeform Custom HTML box.
- Forum searching will no longer only search the first forum in the drop-down list. In fact, the drop down list has been tossed into the back of a van and... well... we probably won't hear from it again. By default, forum searches now cover all forums the user doing the searching has access to.
- The web-based mail center has had the UI updated some.
- Problematic text in the descriptions of members contained in the GPHelper LUA file should now .. not be problematic.
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10/19/2009 7:57 PM
GuildPortal Change Log Entry
10/19/2009 7:57 PM
Aion Server Information has been added, and provides animated charts that give different views on the balance of power on your legion's server. By default, it's an alternate view on the Aion integrated roster, and is available via link once you've got integration set up through Control Panel -> Aion Integration. It is also available stand-alone, for placement anywhere on your site. Here's a snap:
Many fixes/tweaks are going live with tonight's push, as well:
- When a guild disables alliance shouts, it's now a two-way street. You won't see theirs, and they won't see yours.
- Banner ads for free sites will no longer appear twice towards the top of the page when certain layout options are chosen.
- The info section viewer no longer centers all contents, and will more correctly apply guild styles.
- Forwarding a message in web-based mail now does what it's supposed to.
- The new tree view for selection of multiple recipients of web-based mail will now attempt to glean acceptable color settings for display from your custom CSS.
- The library categories display now sucks less.
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10/9/2009 6:00 PM
GuildPortal Change Log Entry
10/9/2009 6:00 PM
Alliance shouts are now in place, so you may now yell at your closest allies. By default, they are enabled. You (guild admins) can disable them by clicking the edit button under the shout box and clicking Display Options. It's a checkbox in there.
Aion Legion Status, a new content type, is now available for Aion legions. It's based off the same mojo as the automatic roster goodies. Also, while it will be a default content type moving forward, Aion legions that have already been set up will need to add the content type if they want it (Control Pane -> Pages and Content -> Pick a Page and Add Content). Here's a snap:
Also, sites using the Nav Bar Builder (Control Panel -> Style Tools -> Nav Bar Builder) can now specify where they want the Login/Characters and Settings links to display. Options are: default (very top of the page, Under Nav Bar, and Above Nav Bar). Here's an example of a site with it set to display under the nav bar:
Finally, for free sites using the Nav Bar style of navigation (aka Straight Bar), advertisements will now appear after the nav bar, so as not to nasty up your banner layout.
So, that'll be it for new dev for the week. This'll be an early code push, going out about 10 minutes after I save this update. We'll resume on Monday with more goodies. Have a great weekend and, as always, thank you for making GuildPortal your guild's home on the web!
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10/8/2009 8:54 PM
GuildPortal Change Log Entry
10/8/2009 8:54 PM
Lots of stuff included with the code push tonight. Mostly maintenance:
- Tooltips added to a bunch of places where they were missing.
- A javascript bug that was causing tooltips to not show up intermittently has been fixed.
- A bug that prevented Aion auto-roster integration from working when the guild had under 13 members was fixed. Pure gremlin stuff, that was.
- A link to "your blog" has been added to the recent blogs content type.
- When a page background image was set to centered, the image previously centered itself relative to the browser window, vertically as well as horizontally. It's not what most people would expect (because it just wasn't right), so it now centers the background image horizontally only.
- Hovering over game news items now produces a tooltip preview of the contents.
- The content editor window has been made bigger across the board, thanks to an all-natural, window-enhancing supplement.
- A new video that explains how to embed tooltips to items, quests, npcs, etc. for many games has been published.
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| | Welcome New members, please be sure to check the Getting Started board in the forums for some important information. Also be sure to place your signatures on the Charter Acknowledgement board in the forums. We are currently developing two different core groups for raiding. We have Core 1 doing progressive 10-man raiding on Tuesdays & Thursdays and Core 2 doing developmental 10-man raiding on Tuesdays & Thursdays. On top of that, THG has a SASU-assisted Heroic Naxxramas raid every Monday night. Both Core 1 & Core 2 are looking for additional members, as well as the Heroic Naxxramas raid. Also, please feel free to sign-up as an alternate for any of the THG runs listed (must be a THG member to view). The Light be with you all! ~Coralirahd |