Post by Master Baudeau on Feb 8, 2015 23:14:26 GMT -6
Greeting everyone!
As promised the skin has changed, hours of work have gone into giving you all a new design to enjoy and help change Manor over to what it is to become. There are some unique features that come with it!
As promised the skin has changed, hours of work have gone into giving you all a new design to enjoy and help change Manor over to what it is to become. There are some unique features that come with it!
•First off, you might have some quick questions that you want answered, and now there are two places to ask said things. Since the chat boxes have seem to always work the best for the board when placed on each side I decided to leave that as it was to make it less confusing. While not used much the Shoutbox will be kept at the bottom of the page to post announcements and also be of use if the chatango network has issues once more. It can also be a place for open questions if no admin is on to answer them. In fact, almost anything can go in it, but we do ask that RPing stays in the IC Chat, not in the Shoutbox. Please refrain from any cursing in the Shoutbox, if any is seen it will be removed.
•Thanks the vote we held to decide what the members wished to have done with the board we have giving Manor a new plot to run by along with some new sections. Check around to see where the new locations of some old sections are. The entire board has been rearrange to make it easier to navigate and seem less cluttered.
•Since the slide down part was usually easy to miss I have change it so there is a triangle on the banner that says CLICK ME. This will slide out displaying staff, updates, events, OTMs, and the links to help navigate the board. Clicking the event image will take you to the thread explaining the event. Check there if you're ever curious if you somehow missed an update or start of an event.
•Thanks to Finny in the past this part shouldn't be too difficult! The walkthrough of the new mini-profiles. When looking at the profile it will display a 250x450 image will be displayed. Below the image in the bar across should have the nation that you play. In the personal section of your account, put the direct link to the image there, not the img link where it says "250x450 Avatar". Please make sure to also add in all the other information. Most should be self-explanatory. You can link your app, plot page and thread tracker, as well as a song! Since many seemed to enjoy it I decided to keep on the setting to allow each profile to have a song. All you have to do is link the direct mp3 url in the space (for instance, if you have Radioactive by Imagine Dragons and the link is archive.org/download/LPark_IDragon/01 Imagine Dragons - Radioactive.mp3). Mp3skull is a good place to get a link, but you can upload to kiwi6.com. Lastly your icon now will display when you hover over your profile. The size you will need for your new icon is 200x200.
•Dee apologies but while she was doing the skin changes for the mini profiles she caused it to delete all the already linked music. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused anyone!
•Make sure your age is NOT displayed on your profile. If you display your age it will appear before your character's human name.
•Make sure to look over the RULES! They have been altered to fit the new board in order to help everyone understand and to get rid of some repetitive sections. The rules for being able to take on multiple characters have completely changed so please make sure to keep that in mind when you're thinking of asking for another character.
•We have updated the password for new applications, so if you are taking up a second character, make sure to check if your question answer is applicable (we retain this rule so that people taking a second character brush up on the rules). We have also changed the password for the accepted app board. If anyone didn't receive a message with the new app password contact one of the members of the staff to make sure it is sent to you. Some board don't wish to keep their app locked but will how many thieves we have seen in the past we have decided it is best to keep them locked away. We have posted a sample app if new members wish to get a feel for writing, but otherwise, apps will stay locked.
•Now that we are mentioning apps some of you might have noticed we have a brand new template. Everyone is required to move their information over to the new template. If anyone has trouble with the template do not be afraid to ask for help. The new template does not display normally in the preview mode so keep that in mind.
•Ancients are still able to be played, just like the nations they are in normal bodies wondering around trying to figure out what happened in the manor.
•Credits for the skin and theme are located at the bottom of the skin.