Kabal

Welcome to Kabal!

This is a brief overview of the features of our website, hosted by Shivtr (formerly MMO Guildsites).

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Click a link below to be taken to that section of the guide.

• How to join our site
• Shivtr Features
• Formatting text
• Pictures and Video embedding
• Other content

JOINING OUR WEBSITE


So you've found our website, been linked to it, whatever. Are you already a member? Great! Do you need to figure out how to apply? This is the place to look. Follow these steps to login/apply to the site!

1. Right underneath the link to our youtube channel (labeled Kabal Youtube on the menu bar), you'll find a link that says Apply to Guild. Click on it!

2. You will be brought to a screen that tells you to create a Shivtr account or login with one you already have. If you've been a member of a guild/community that used Shivtr in the past, just log in. If not, fill out the information with a valid email, password you'd like to use, and the name you'd like to be known as on the website. Then click the button to create your account!

3. You'll be taken to our application once you've filled that out. Enter your information as completely as possible. Make sure you read our rules, listed in the About section of the site. Once you've filled the application out, click submit!

4. Wait. No seriously, all you have to do now is wait for one of the officers to review your application. If you're accepted, or if you're already a member and haven't joined the website yet, your account will be changed to a member account and you'll have full access!

SHIVTR FEATURES

Shivtr has a lot of features, some are more important to Kabal than others.

1. Shoutbox
Pretty much everyone uses the shoutbox. It's actually more used than the forum itself. It's a good way to send out a quick message to everyone, a link, whatever. Just try not to spam, or hit submit more than once. Occasionally the site lags between when you hit submit and when the shout actually shows up, so if you click it more than once we get a shoutbox full of repeated messages ;P

2. Calendar
This has gone through many changes since we first brought the site to Shivtr. It's used for pretty much all our events, as well as letting people know when certain things will be taking place (meetings, Kabal birthday, etc). Members can add events as well! If you click the more button on the calendar located on the home page, you will be taken to the full calendar. At the top, there's a button that says Add Event. When you click that, you'll be taken to a form to create an event. It's pretty straight-forward, but the main thing you wanna do is make sure you have a name and category for the event. Also make sure the time is correct (it's on a 24 hour clock, not a 12 hour. Keep that in mind when setting the time) and that you enable signups. Once you've done all that, you can tweak little details like the signup time, if the signup is going to cut off at a certain time or remain open, you can add an image to the event to make it more visible on the calendar, and add a description to let people know what kind of event it is.

3. Media
If you click on the Media menu button at the top, you'll get a dropdown that has several options. For the purposes of this guide, I'm only going to talk about Images and Video. If you click on Images, you can upload screenshots to various categories. If you have an idea for any categories to add, let me know! These will be hosted on the website, and people can look through them like a gallery. You are free to load images to your own host and put them in the forum, but using the gallery helps reduce loading time for those with slower connections. The video section allows you to add videos from youtube via their link. These also have several categories to choose from, once again let me know if we need more.

4. Forums
Last, but not least, are the forums. Underused, but full of information, the forums have many areas to post in. We are constantly updating and adding or removing specific areas to better suit our members' needs. I will also get into how to format posts for those who don't know much about BBCode or who may need a refresher. This will be in the next section of the guide.

FORMATTING TEXT

BBCode can be annoying to learn if you aren't used to using anything like it. There's a pretty good guide for formatting text, videos, and images with bbcode on Shivtr's main site, but I'll put information here for those of you who just don't want to click that link

1. Basic text formatting
This is the real basic stuff.

[b]Bold text[/b] Bold Text

[i]Italic text[/i] Italic text

[s]Deleted text/strikethrough[/s] Deleted text/strikethrough

[u]Underlined text[/u]Underlined text

[color=red]Red text[/color] Red text
*You can use hex code here as well I believe. But for ease of use for those who aren't familiar with hex code, type in most primary colors and they'll work.

[size=16]This is 16px text[/size]This is 16px text




2. More advanced formatting
There's a few things you can do to make your text look "fancier". Not a lot, but it could be good for signatures, or making your post stand out.

Bullet list
[list]
[*]Item one
[*]Item two
[nlist]
[*]Nested item
[*]Another nested item
[/nlist]
[*]Item three
[/list]

This would give you the following:

• Item one
• Item two
• • Nested item
  • Another nested item
• Item three

Block quotes
Pretty simple, just use the quote tag.
The following information is in block quotes.
[quote]I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts,
dee dee dee dee,
there they are a-standing in a row[/quote]
More regular text

...would look like:

The following information is in block quotes.

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts,
dee dee dee dee,
there they are a-standing in a row

More regular text


Preformatted text. This will preserve the text in it's copied or typed out form, instead of formatting it automatically.


(Apparently the pre code isn't working in code format. So just type [ pre] without the space in it, and end it with [/ pre])

Would look like..

  Text in a pre block
is displayed in a fixed-width
     font. It preserves
  s p a c e s, line breaks
     and ascii bunnies.

           _     _
           \`\ /`/
            \ V /
            /. .\
           =\ T /=
            / ^ \
         {}/\\ //\
         __\ " " /__
        (____/^\____)

You can also position your text. Whether you want it left, right, or center, there's a way to change where it is located.


[left]Left aligned text[/left]
[center]Center aligned text[/center]
[right]Right aligned text[/right]






This can also be used with images, just put it outside the img code. I will be talking about images and videos as far as formatting is concerned in the next post.

IMAGES & VIDEO FORMATTING

I'm pretty sure most people know how to link images in a normal fashion, but I'm going to go over how to make them look better on the site, as opposed to their native state if you were to link directly to them.


1. Images

Easiest way to link an image is to use the following:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/XfBTH.jpg[/img];

This would give you the following:



Shivtr will automatically scale images to fit with the website. but what if you want to show a thumbnail, that you can click on for the larger image?

[img size=200x200 overlay=true]http://i.imgur.com/XfBTH.jpg[/img];


Click it!



2. Videos

If you want to embed a youtube video directly into a post, you can use the following code (you need to use the long link for all of these, not the short link youtube automatically gives you now):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Rau01wbeo[/youtube];


Now maybe you want to have it pop out so that you can see a bigger version.
[youtube overlay=true]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Rau01wbeo[/youtube];
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Rau01wbeo

You can also resize the video like you can resize images.
[youtube size=700x500]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Rau01wbeo[/youtube];



3. Streaming videos from Own3d.tv

Pretty much the same as youtube, except the code for embedding is a bit different.

[own3d]http://www.own3d.tv/live/38853[/own3d];

[own3d size=120x90]http://www.own3d.tv/live/38853[/own3d];

Regular embedding is the first one, and resized is the second. This would give you the following:

[own3d]http://www.own3d.tv/live/38853[/own3d]

[own3d size=120x90]http://www.own3d.tv/live/38853[/own3d]

OTHER CONTENT

Shivtr has a lot of other content, some of it we aren't currently using on our site. Or the ability to use it hasn't been implemented yet.

One of these is item tooltips. I am fairly certain that they will be made available when Guild Wars 2 is released, or perhaps a little before. Once they are implemented, I will update this post with how to use them.

We also have a bank page which shows items people have donated, and what people would like from the bank. This is currently turned off due to us not having a bank XD Again, when the option is back, I'll update this post.



I hope this guide was useful, and that you found information or help you could use. Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions or need for clarification.