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re: Welcome to Your New Guild Site!

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Welcome and thank your for hosting your guild with Guild Launch!

This post is intended to orient you to the major features of Guild Launch guild hosting. The section below will tell you how to modify or remove this post.

Guild Announcements
This post is a guild announcement, a unique feature of Guild Launch which allows you to make posts in your forums and have them appear on your homepage. You can edit the announcement settings by clicking on the admin link in the upper right corner and navigating to the COMMUNICATION Tab.

Once there you can turn this feature off or change the number of posts to show, set a date range, etc. If you would like to just remove this post you can get to it by going to the "News" forum or clicking the "(View Post)" link. Once you are at the post you can delete this post outright, or you can choose to make it a regular post as opposed to an announcement.

How to Change Templates
We hope you like our default template, but many guilds want their own identitiy. If you would like to change your template go to the admin area from the top right and then click on CONTENT OPTIONS then click on "Change Site Template" on the left navigation. A page will load with a dropdown that lets you browse the available templates. When you see one that you like click "Set" and that will become your guild's template.

Forums
We have created the following forums for you as a starting point:

News - Where this post is posted. An admin can delete it or add new ones.
Member Discsussion - This a forum that only guild members can post in.
Officer Discussion - This is a forum that only members of the "Officers" security group can post in. When a new guild is created the only member of the officer group (and the only member of the guild in fact) is the guild creator.

Guild Creator Special Status
The guild creator is the only user who does not require having a character added to the guild in order to manage the guild, make posts, etc. However, if the guild creator would like to participate in Rapid Raid (DKP) and have a character show in the roster they should add a character by following steps 2 through 10 of the process below.

Adding Guild Members
User Steps:
1. Go to http://www.guildlaunch.com and create an account.
2. Add at least one character to your account using the Add Character link on the My Account tab of the Admin utility.
3. Go to your guildsite URL. That is the URL in the browser window starting with "http://".
4. Click the "Apply to Guild" link on the right side.
5. Select the character you would like to add.
6. (optional) Fill out the application.
7. Submit the application.
8 The application will appear on the guild's Approve Applications area of the MEMBERS tab in the Guild Admin area.

Guild Admin Steps:
9. The guild admin must approve the application.
9a. (Optional) If the member is an officer or you have created other security groups then add them to the Officer group when you accept them so they can see the officer forum.

User Step:
10. You will then be able to accept the addition to the guild.
11. You are now a member of the guild!

Our character application process requires that you accept the applicant and that the applicant accept your addition to the guild. This process is in place because our application process allows members to apply to multiple guilds. If they get in one guild, they might have to decline membership in another. Most commonly however a user will have their character apply to one guild at a time.

We will be adding the ability to add a character to the guild automatically using a password in the coming weeks. This password will allow them to effectively skip steps 8 through 10.
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