Guild Launch News
Updates - Image Slider, SEO, Open Graph & Splash Page
Today we have launched 4 new features:
Image Slider Widget
A quick and easy way to visually display newsworthy info!
There is now an image slider widget, that looks like this:
This widget allows you to add 4 images, with 4 title texts and to have them rotate. They are then directly navigable form the right side. The images can also have a link attached so that you can link out to a post, another site, or wherever you want. The widget also has image scaling options.
The Image Slider can be found in the 'Guild Info Widgets' section of the widgets.
Opengraph Support
We have added Opengraph support to all site homepages and forum topics. We will expand this functionality, but for now this will provide a better experience when sharing content through various social media sites that use this info to populate descriptions and titles. Since this content is less keyword focused the titles and descriptions used are more concise.
This functionality is largely behind the scenese, but it will help you spread the word of your good deeds further and faster and let more people know about your kinship, corp or clan.
More info on Opengraph is available on the Facebook site.
This feature is on by default.
Homepage META Description Override
This is a subscription feature.
You can now override the META description that is included in the Homepage contents of your site. This will allow you to fine tune how your site is displayed in Google (and other search engines such as Bing). Google most often returns the homepage of a site, and most often shows the META description as the text under the link. This new feature will let you override that text and include relevant info.
This feature is available on the Template tab in the Admin area.
Note: If you update this info today it is completely under Google's control as to how long it takes for the update in Google to occur.
Splash Pages
This is a subscription feature.
With Great Power comes Great Responsibility, so we hope that you all will use Splash Pages judiciously and carefully. Done right, Splash Pages can be interesting, done wrong they can be a bad user experience. The current functionality will use a cookie to only show the splash page once every 60 days. Now, on to the fun part!
The new Splash Page functionality provides a clean slate of HTML entry for you to enter your own splash page contents. The only thing we require is the addition of a link to your homepage for usability purposes. Below that, the content is yours to control!
This feature is available on the Template tab in the Admin area.
So, let your site make a splash!
Enjoy the new features!
Stephen & The Guild Launch Team
Image Slider Widget
A quick and easy way to visually display newsworthy info!
There is now an image slider widget, that looks like this:
This widget allows you to add 4 images, with 4 title texts and to have them rotate. They are then directly navigable form the right side. The images can also have a link attached so that you can link out to a post, another site, or wherever you want. The widget also has image scaling options.
The Image Slider can be found in the 'Guild Info Widgets' section of the widgets.
Opengraph Support
We have added Opengraph support to all site homepages and forum topics. We will expand this functionality, but for now this will provide a better experience when sharing content through various social media sites that use this info to populate descriptions and titles. Since this content is less keyword focused the titles and descriptions used are more concise.
This functionality is largely behind the scenese, but it will help you spread the word of your good deeds further and faster and let more people know about your kinship, corp or clan.
More info on Opengraph is available on the Facebook site.
This feature is on by default.
Homepage META Description Override
This is a subscription feature.
You can now override the META description that is included in the Homepage contents of your site. This will allow you to fine tune how your site is displayed in Google (and other search engines such as Bing). Google most often returns the homepage of a site, and most often shows the META description as the text under the link. This new feature will let you override that text and include relevant info.
This feature is available on the Template tab in the Admin area.
Note: If you update this info today it is completely under Google's control as to how long it takes for the update in Google to occur.
Splash Pages
This is a subscription feature.
With Great Power comes Great Responsibility, so we hope that you all will use Splash Pages judiciously and carefully. Done right, Splash Pages can be interesting, done wrong they can be a bad user experience. The current functionality will use a cookie to only show the splash page once every 60 days. Now, on to the fun part!
The new Splash Page functionality provides a clean slate of HTML entry for you to enter your own splash page contents. The only thing we require is the addition of a link to your homepage for usability purposes. Below that, the content is yours to control!
This feature is available on the Template tab in the Admin area.
So, let your site make a splash!
Enjoy the new features!
Stephen & The Guild Launch Team
Excellent upgrades GL! Very happy to see you working on the OG stuff and can't wait to be able to customise the image for that. META tweaks are a nice touch, and the image slider and splash page look great too. So much awesomeness!