GLS news for August 2008
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GLS would like to congratulate our resident newlyweds Everodd and Stellmaria! Who’s next to tie the knot? Ambrell! And a little bird told us she also happens to be celebrating her 23rd birthday this month. Best wishes to all of you.
Published by Lyaidan on August 16th, 2008 tagged Announcements | Comment now »
Site Features Part 1
Now that everyone has had a chance to play around with the new site I thought it was about time I explained a few of the new features and cleared up some confusion.
Lets start with the forum since that’s where most folks are having issues. When a forum has a new post the forum icon will be green and looks like this: 
. When you open that forum to look for new topics or new replies to old topics you will see this symbol: 
. This symbol indicates that the topic has a reply you haven’t read. There are also icon keys at the bottom of every page that look like this: 
. The icon key will help you to navigate the forum. I’ve changed some of the original colors to make it easier to find threads you posted in.
The second question I’ve been getting most often is why do new members have to be approved? The reason is simple, security. When you register for the forums I (or Tyburn or Lux) have to set your permissions based on your rank in the guild to make sure you have access to all the boards and features your rank is allowed. Unfortunately we haven’t figured out a way to set every new registrant to a default of Fledgling until one of us can edit your permissions so when you register your permissions start out blank meaning everyone has access to all the boards, including the boards that only ranks deputy and above should have access to. Therefore, new registrants have to be approved now so that their permissions can be set at the time of approval. This also allows us to reject trolls, spammers and bots who register for the forum.
If you have difficulty with the forums you can always change the theme to something easier to read by editing your profile preferences or you can send a private message to myself, Tyburn or Lux or use the contact form at the top of the page. Please remember that we’re all busy and it may take a day or two to get back to you but we will do our best to be prompt.
Published by Lyaidan on August 6th, 2008 tagged Site Updates | Comment now »
Post Party Wrap-Up
We had a nice turnout with roughly 40 folks attending. We all met up and in Ironforge and then made our way to Gnomeregan.
Everyone who attended received two [Imbued Netherweave Bag]s. Yay for more bag space! Afterwards everyone was full of energy so some folks ran through Gnomeregan and some folks dueled.
Owing to time constraints the party was short but sweet and everyone had a good time. We’d like to thank everyone who helped to arrange last nights party or farmed supplies for the party favors. A big congrats to the three new deputies announced last night. Lets all wish Cybrid, Stelmaria and Tyburn a hearty welcome by immediately putting them to work.
There are some new events being planned for the near future so check back soon.
Published by Lyaidan on August 3rd, 2008 tagged Guild Events | Comment now »
Anniversary Party Moved
The anniversary party scheduled for tonight has been moved to August 2nd at 8pm server time.
Published by Lyaidan on July 26th, 2008 tagged Guild Events | Comment now »
Welcome to the new GLS website!
Happy 3rd anniversary GLS and welcome to your new gnome sweet gnome! The site is pretty much done but over the next few days we’ll be ironing out a few bugs. In the meantime if you have any problems or suggestions feel free to use the contact form to send us a message. If we don’t get back to you asap you’ll have to forgive us as we’re away this weekend celebrating our 9th wedding anniversary. We worked very hard to make this a user-friendly, functional and aesthetically pleasing place for GLS to call home. We hope you’ll all enjoy it.
See you at the party 
Update 6/25/08
Some of you have questions about the new site. I’ll do my best to answer them quickly and make needed changed but anything major will have to wait until next week.
1. What’s up with the shoutbox? Why do we have to do math?
The simple math problems are a way for us to curb spammers and bots so we can keep the shoutbox clean for real GLS members. If you don’t want to do the math problems each time you post to the shoutbox you can register with Wordpress (there is a register link in the bottom right column), login and voila, no more math.
2. Where did the old forums go?
The old forums are archived and are accessable via the menu on the left of your screen. You can still read the old forums, including your private messages but you can no longer post. The reasons behind this are many. For starters the old forum system was terribly out of date and the new forum has a lot more features that will allow forum admins to better manage them. Secondly, we had to host the site, including the forums, on our new hosting package (it’s the hosting package we host our own sites on so we’re paying for the GLS domain name and hosting ourselves). We don’t have access to the old forums and couldn’t figure out a way to import the old posts into the new forums because the old forums are using an old PHP. Besides, the old forums are a bit cluttered at this point, with many dead threads and unused forums so it’s probably a good idea to start over fresh. Any old posts that are still relevant and useful (like stickied posts about forum guidelines etc) can be copied over to the new forums.
3. Where are the new guild bank guidelines?
They’re in the FAQ along with all the other basic guild info that members and potential members might need. The FAQ isn’t finished, it will evolve as we do. So if you have something you think should be added drop me a line via the contact form and I’ll get around to it as soon as I can.
4. Who are Pokis and Korky?
No idea, but they’re listed on the armory as deputies/officers of our guild so they went on the leadership list. My guess is they’re old members that haven’t been removed from the guild for sentimental reasons. I’ll ask Fille about them next time I get a chance and they may or may not be removed from the list.
5. How do I set myself as a specific rank on the forums so that I can access forum privileges allowed for my rank?
I or one of the other forum admins have to set your membergroup for you after you register on the new forums. Your membership group is based on your rank in the guild and each rank has it’s own set of privileges on the forum. For instance a fledgling can do little more that read and post while officers can set their own forum note, make polls and access the Meeting Room. To make it easy for us to set your forum membergroup please set your forum name (not your user name, the name you want everyone to see when you post) to the name of your highest ranking toon.
6. I can’t access the Recruitment guide, what gives?
The recruitment guide is meant for deputies, officers and the guild goddess so it’s password protected. The password is available in the Meeting Room in the forums or you can ask a deputy or officer in-game.
7. How do I change the theme on the new forums?
Previously you couldn’t but since a few people have expressed the need to do so for various reasons (slow comp/hard to read/etc) I’ve changed the settings so that you can. Simply log into your account on the forums and the go into your profile (the section concerning the look of the forums) and select ‘change theme’. There are a few alternative themes to choose from that should be less graphic intense and easier to read but we may add more options in the future.