About Guild Hosting / Clan Hosting

GameStreet's hosting system offers services and functionality that guilds and clans use on a daily basis to coordinate their activities in game. Whether you are a guild in an MMORPG or a clan playing a FPG game, GameStreet's free guild hosting platform provides a fully functional portal for each guild or clan, with a common set of tools that can be customized to each guild's needs.

Hosting Overview

Each guild gets their own mini-site that contains multiple pages that can be customized with any content and tools they wish to add to it. Using the Guild Designer tool, anyone can easily create a guild and add content on the fly, move content around the page using drag-and-drop, and customize the look and feel with our stock themes. Themes can also be modified using the advanced style editor, or if you are web-savvy and know how to use style sheets you can easily add custom CSS to your site.

Content is added to each page in "widgets" which are content sections that are available in dozens of different flavors. Each one has a specific purpose and can be placed anywhere on any of your guild pages. See the "Widgets and Content" tab for more details on each type of widget available. All this functionality combined make this the most flexible and customizable guild hosting system on the planet.

Functionality Overview

All of the basic functionality that any guild needs comes ready to use in each guild's site out of the box. Here is a breif summary of some of the common features you get:

• Guild News, as well as gaming and site news feeds
• Image gallery, and video galleries (coming soon)
• Complete forum functionality
• Guild roster with character listings as well
• Full calendar system with automated email reminders
• Integrated internal mail center
• Custom new member application process
• Simple member invitation system
• Shout box
• Plus many more...

Hosting Plans

GameStreet guild hosting comes in two flavors, the free version which is ad-supported and gives you all the guild features with some minor content restrictions. The premium guild plan removes all ads as well as increases content restrictions. See the following chart below for details:

Feature	Free Plan	Premium Plan
Ad Suppored Ads shown at top and bottom, and mixed in with content
File Storage Any files uploaded guild file manager, or using text editors. For example, an image uploaded to be posted in a guild news article. Does not include gallery images or avatar.	50mb *Upgradable*	500mb *Upgradable*
Gallery Images (each image file size is limited to 2mb*)	Up To 50	No Limit
Preferred Search Placement Shown higher in search results and listings.
Featured Guilds Qualifies to be picked as the featured guild (shown on home page, guilds page)
Custom Sub-Domain http://yourguildname.gamestreet.net	*Upgradable*

Account Upgrades

If you dont need all the features of the premium account, or you want to add more features to your premium account you can purchse specific account upgrades. Here are the upgrades that are available:

Upgrade Type	Pricing
Custom Sub-Domain Included Free With Premium Account! This feature allows you to have a custom sub-domain such as http://yourguild.gamestreet.net.	$1 per month $5 for 6 months
Custom Domain Hosting This feature allows you to point your own full domain at your guild site. For example, you have a domain called www.myguild.com which you want to point to your guild site here at GameStreet. The actual domain must be purchased by you before this option can be enabled.	$1 per month $5 for 6 months
1GB Additional File Storage For guilds that have many files to store online, this option allows you and additional 1GB of file storage with no bandwidth restrictions. For premium guilds this will give you a total of 1.5GB of total storage.	$1 per month $5 for 6 months
2GB Additional File Storage Our highest level of storage allows up to 2GB of additional file storage for your guild with no bandwidth restictions. For premium guilds this will give you a total of 2.5GB of total storage.	$1 per month $5 for 6 months

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Widgets and Content

All the functionality of your guild page is inside containers called "widgets". You can add and remove these widgets as you see fit, and move them around your page by dragging and dropping them in the guild designer. Below are the details about each widget you have available to you, shown using the default theme.

Guild Info

This widget is displays you guild avatar, description, basic stats such as the number of members, number of members online, date founded, as well as the list of all games your guild is playing. The widget settings button allows you to control which of these items are displayed. If the visitor to your page is not a member of the guild, a "Join This Guild" link will be shown to direct them to the guild new member application page.

Welcome Message

This widget allows you to show a custom welcome message. This works the same exact way as the custom (free-text) widget does, but displays instructions for setting up your guild when first added to a page. Use the settings button to edit the contents of this widget. Using the advanced WYSIWYG editor, you can insert html, images, flash, and embed custom objects.

Shout Box

The shoutbox allows guild members to post "shouts" to each other. These are visible to all visitors of the page and is updated in near-realtime. The widget settings button allows you to choose how many shouts to show at a time. Shouts are displated latest first.

Hit Counter

This widget will display your hit counter stats. It will show how many page views you have recieved across all your guild site's pages, as well as how many members and non members have visited.

Custom (Free Text)

This widget allows you to put any kind of text or html in your page. Use the settings button to edit the contents of this widget. Using the advanced WYSIWYG editor, you can insert html, images, flash, and embed custom objects.

GameStreet Talk Status

This widget shows the current status of any voice channels your guild has setup in GameStreet Talk™. Any members currently in those channels will be shown. Future versions of GameStreet Talk will allow you to join a channel by clicking on it from here, and also send instant messages to members in those channels.

Guild Calendar

This widget displays the guild events calendar as a standard sunday-saturday calendar which you can move to the next and previous months using the arrows at the top. Admins can add new events by clicking the plus sign in each day, and members can drill into each event to view its details and post comments. Members can register for each event in the event details, as well as set an automated email reminder to be sent to them at a specified time before the event starts. The event details support full HTML using the WYSIWYG editor, and you can insert custom HTML, images, flash, and embedded objects. Members are also notified when new events are added, and an alert is shown in each member's "My Account" page on the day that an event is due to occur that they have registered for.

Guild Forum

This widget is a complete forum system that allows admins to setup forums and forum groups, and members can post topics within them. All forum administration is done through this widget such as adding/editing forum and groups, and reordering them using the drag-and-drop reordering mechanism. The forums are fully searchable and support full HTML and signatures.

Latest Forum Posts

This widget shows a list of the most recent posts with activity in the guild forums. The widget settings allows you to choose how many posts to show at a time.

Guild Roster

This widget displays the guild members (referred to as a "Roster") either as a flat list with their title, last login, and list of in-game characters. You can switch to thumbnail mode to show just the member's thumbnails instead. Alternatively you can also switch to characters mode and display either a flat list of in-game characters or thumbnails for all the characters. The widget settings allow you to choose how many rows or thumbnails to display per page. ** Only characters that match the games selected for this guild are displayed.

Members Online Now

This widget will displays which guild members are online now. The widget settings allows you to choose whether to show large or small avatars, or show just a flat list of member names.

Gallery Images

This widget displays the guild gallery images as a left to right tiled list of thumbnails which you can drill into to see the full size image and post comments. You can upload new images directly from the widget using the "Upload a photo" link. The widget settings allows you to choose how many images to show per row, and whether to allow comments or not.

Latest Gallery Images

This widget shows the latest images posted in your guild gallery. In the widget settings you can choose whether the images are shown in either top to bottom or left to right orientation and how many to display.

Guild News

This widget displays the guild news that you have posted, and allows you to drill into each news article and post comments. News articles can be posted directly from this widget using the "Add news article" link, and edited as well. The widget settings allows you to choose how many articles to show per page, and whether to allow comments or not.

GameStreet News

This widget displays the GameStreet news feed with any news generated by GameStreet staff about site updates, new features, bug fixes, etc. The widget settings allows you to choose how many items are displayed per page.

Gaming News

This widget will display the full gaming news from the news feeds of the games you choose. The widget settings will allow you to choose which games to display news for, and how many to show at a time. By default, the games you have chosen for your guild will be shown.

Latest Guild News

This widget will display a list of the latest guild news and links to them. The widget settings will allow you to choose how many items are shown at a time.

Latest GameStreet News

This widget will display a list of the latest gamestreet news and links to them. The widget settings will allow you to choose how many items are shown at a time.

Latest Gaming News

This widget will display a list of the latest gaming news from the news feeds of the games you choose. The widget settings will allow you to choose which games to display news for, and how many to show at a time. By default, the games you have chosen for your guild will be shown.

Mail Center

This widget displays your gamestreet internal mail, and allows you to compose new messages, and read/forward/reply old messages. This widget has all the same functionality as the message center on your "My Account" page.

Widgets Currently In Development

Here at gamestreet we are always working our butts off to add new features and cool stuff for you to use. Here is a list of widgets we are currently working on adding:

RSS Feeds Roster Summary Most Active Members Embedded Page (IFrame) File Manager DKP Tracker Allies Voting

Polls Guild Bank Guild Wiki Live Chat Daily Quotes Quest Tracking Recent Awards Polls

Guild Bank Guild Wiki Live Chat Daily Quotes Quest Tracking Recent Awards

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