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Guild Hosting Features

Take a look at the features we provide our guilds! After you've checked these out, be sure to take a look at our testimonials page to see what the real people who use GuildPortal's community services have to say.

Keep in mind that the features we cover here are only a small percentage of the features that we offer. We are constantly adding new features to our hosting packages, without any increase in pricing. It's kind of like your favorite MMO releasing a bunch of expansion packs for free, all the time!

Guild Web Site Management

No programming required (but you can, if you want to)! Point-and-click tools provide everything an online gaming community needs. You'll never have to write a single line of HTML, CSS, or server-side script. Of course, for those with techy types in the guild, you have the option of using some of these elements to further customize your site.
Tired of being stuck in the 1990's with hosts that don't allow total flexibility as far as what pages you have on your site, what widgets appear on the pages, and where? Use GuildPortal and experience what guild hosts should provide their clients: all the power and control that the best portal sites do!
The most powerful features combined with the friendliest tools, and that's no exaggeration. Compare our community management tools with any content management system on the market, all the way up to those that cost up to $30,000 per processor, and you'll know how GuildPortal became the Leader in Guild Hosting!
The most active, committed staff in the business. Sure, we don't artificially inflate our egos by assigning ourselves lofty titles, and we don't spend a lot of time hunting down opportunities to be interviewed, but we are here, and have been full-time for many years now, continually improving GuildPortal.

Videos

Video: Get your guild web site online in less than a minute.

Video: Quick overview of some of GuildPortal's available widgets.

Video: Quick overview of the Guild Control Panel.

Insanely Powerful Customization

Using the Banner Generator, you can have a custom image built immediately to your specifications. You're not limited to just your guild's name, either. Enter the text you'd like an image generated for. Select the font name and size you'd like. Select colors for a gradient effect, outline, and glow. Then choose from a list of effects to apply to your banner, including reflection, shadow, filmstrip, glass table, and perspective skew. Combine any (or all) of the above to get the exact graphic you want. It's output as a PNG, so it won't block out any background image you have on your web page!
Widget containers, pages, grid rows -- all are customizable with point-and-click ease, even to the point of selecting colors to generate custom gradient images to serve as backgrounds.
If you're the technical type, and you really want to push the limits for a completely customized site, head over to the Custom Code area of the Control Panel. There, provide HTML for your banner area, footer area, and left, center and right content boxes. A recent addition, GuildPortal now allows full page custom HTML! Used in conjunction with Custom CSS, and now built-in support for jQuery and custom scripting, you can achieve levels of personalization almost unheard of in a CMS -- and certainly not achieved by any other Guild Hosting platform.
Provide your own custom images for your banner, page background, forum icons, emoticons (smilies), RSS feeds, post ranks (stars), and other elements of your site.
Custom CSS doesn't require any hacky type of file uploading. The Control Panel gives you a blank sheet with some helper classes to get started, and the rest is completely up to you.
Navigation, depending on your preference, can consist of a simple strip of boxed text underneath your banner, images with different states (current tab vs. non-current), a simple list of pages/options in any of the standard widget containers, or even a modern-looking strip with glossy effects built to your specifications using our Nav Bar Builder, all with point-and-click ease.
Every site hosted by GuildPortal automatically includes the jQuery JavaScript library, so that those admins wanting to employ richer functionality via custom animations (or just about anything, there really is no limit) can do so, easily, using the Custom jQuery/Javascript section of the Control Panel.

Forum Features

Members may have Forum Handles, which are apart from their login user name. They are only required to be unique for the guild, not all of GuildPortal, providing an easy way for members to post as their character.
Admins can specify custom rank images to be used for the five different "ranks" of posters, the ranks being broken down by number of posts they've made.
Admins can also specify custom rank titles that appear under the rank images, giving recognition for those active in the forums.
Custom forum images indicate whether a forum has had new topics or replies added since the user last visited the forum. Features "Next Unread," "Mark All Read," and other features you expect from a stand-alone foruming system, all completely integrated into your site, with no additional user account required by your members.
Extended Security allows for Guild Administrators to specify that certain users may have access to moderate individual forums, without giving them administrative rights to other areas of the site.
As with most other content on your guild site, where a user's name appears, extended functionality goes right along with it -- for example, clicking their name will open a window to send a private message, a customizable set of images to the right of their name will either send a message or open their blog/wall (ala Facebook).
Forums may be easily shared with other guilds in your alliance!

Alliance Features

Share Forums, and Events, and Shouts with allied guilds. Individual items are shared, except in the case of shouts. For example, if you are allied with three other guilds, you can selectively share an event with whichever of those guilds you like (you are not required to share with all or none), and the same goes with forums. With shouts, however, you have the option to share your guild's shouts (and in return, see the shouts of the guild you're sharing with), or not.
Ally with multiple guilds, sharing content across as many (or few) of them as you want. GuildPortal does not force a structure on your alliances in any way, nor is alliance functionality in any way hampered based upon the subscription status (free, paid, whatever) of any -- or all -- guilds in your alliance.
Each guild in an alliance maintains its own content and members, eliminating the need for an extra web site just for the alliance, while preserving their own identity.

Voting Features

Voting polls are truly stand-alone, meaning you do not need to bury them inside a forum post.
People can comment on the polls available, if they have the access to see and vote on them.
Polls can be set to allow votes/viewing by the Public, Associates, Members Only, Council or Officer Only.
Results are visible from the poll itself, and a chart is available from each poll to provide a graphical representation of the results.
Once a poll has closed (meaning the Close Date has passed), the winning poll choice is displayed on the main Voting Polls screen.

Web-Based Mail

Tight integration with most other sections of the site. In most areas, if you see a user's name, there's an icon next to it that you can click on to send a private message.
New mail notification at the top of all guild pages, with a flashing icon indicating when you have new mail waiting.
Inbox shows all mail waiting for you, with icons showing whether you've read each message, a subject header, who it was from, and when it was sent.
Sent Items shows messages you've sent that haven't been deleted. Messages indicate whether the person you sent it to has read it yet and, if so, when they read it.
Custom Folders help keep your messages organized.
Address Book shows all members of all guilds that you're a member of, providing a central location to send web-based mail.
Checkboxes next to each item and a "delete selected" button to make cleaning up your mailbox easy.

Calendaring / Raid Scheduling / DKP

Custom event categories provide the ability to give different types of events their own, unique appearance on the calendar. Customize the border color, background color, text color, and even provide an icon.
Alternate between monthly, weekly, and daily agenda views dynamically, without page refreshes.
Date/Time appear to the user based upon their time zone settings, showing them at what time the event occurs in their time zone.
Attendance level allows event administrators to specify five levels of participation requirements, ranging from totally optional to mandatory attendance.
Tight integration with the game your guild plays, allowing events to be associated with zones, or areas, within the game your guild plays. If available, links to external systems with maps for the locations are provided!
Customizable raid/event locations. Zone not listed, or have a super-secret staging area you like to gather in before heading to the main event? No problem -- add it!
Event Sign-up, allowing participants to specify ahead of time whether they will be attending the event, giving event coordinators/raid leaders a good idea of the balance of people they'll have available for a given event.
Event/Raid Points, giving event administrators the ability to reward points for attending events. Integrated with the Bank content type to manage awarding items based upon raid point standings. This system is totally optional, and does not require that your guild implement a raid point/DKP system.
Share events with allied guilds.
Automatically generate a news item when entering the summary for how an event went.
For WoW guilds, use the GPHelper add-on to automatically track who attended an event.
Use the Progression widget to keep track of (and show others) your progress through the latest expansion.
Drop the Most Recent Drops onto any of your site's pages to show what loot your guild has most recently gotten ahold of.
Easy, single-click Confirm All Sign-ups to ease raid administration.

Image Gallery

Approved members can upload images to the gallery with no intervention required by a guild administrator.
High-quality thumbnails are automatically generated for uploaded images, with a glass table effect.
The Image Gallery widget displays images in a random sequence, using an animated fade effect.
Member uploads are automatically optimized to keep page load times fast, without sacrificing a lot of quality.
Administrators have the option of disabling member uploads.
Administrator uploads via the File Manager in the Control Panel are only optimized if the administrator wants them to be.

Community Participation Awards

Graphical indicators for people who participate regularly, encouraging your members to stay active on your site and keep up on guild happenings.
Post counts, titles, "stars," ranks.
Participation rating based upon posts, event sign-ups, voting, and other activities. Can be reset at any time the administrators decide to "level the playing field."
Top 5, Bottom 5 member content types that can be placed anywhere on your guild pages.
Raid/Event Attendance Points, integrated with Events Management

Guild Banking / Vault

Categories of items custom to the game your guild plays, with custom fields based upon the item type in the game (ie, Range may apply to Missle Weapons but not to Melee Weapons.
Items provide standard fields for quantity, current location (in-game), comments.
Ability for guild members to submit item requests, which is integrated with the web-based mail system by sending requests with single-click approve/deny for bank administrators.
Guild Funds tracking, with currency types defined by the game your guild plays. Transaction history to track where guild funds go, what they're used for, and associated comments.
Import items that others have already entered detailed information for, saving yourself time!
If your guild plays World of Warcraft, use the GPHelper add-on to automatically synchronize in-game guild bank data with your web site.

Rosters

Standard roster showing all members of the guild, their access level, title, thumbnail image, participation rating, medals, and member-supplied field values custom to the game your guild plays.
Member-entered and maintained data shifts the burden of keeping guild roster information up-to-date from a single administrator to the individual members! For some games, however, integration with game publisher web sites (and the use of add-ons) makes this process totally automatic.
Choose from multiple views, including Event Participation and Flag/Key tracking (where applicable to the game your guild plays).
Drop the Tradeskill Listing content type onto any of your guild pages to see the level of proficiency characters in your guild have in the various trade skills applicable to your game.
Detailed Character Profiles, showing game-specific data for the characters belonging to members of your guild play. Journal entries provide a way for players to keep track of and publish the ongoing life tales of their characters.
Create Medals with custom images, award them to your members, and drop the Recently Awarded Medals content type on your guild pages. They also show up in your roster, even if it's one that's automatically fetched from your game publisher's web site or an add-on.
Where available, integration with game publisher-provided rosters (currently available for Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online, EverQuest, EverQuest 2, and Vanguard.
If your guild plays World of Warcraft, use the GPHelper add-on to automatically synchronize the in-game roster with your web site.

Questing

Quest categories custom to the game your guild plays.
Specify title, category, and what the reward is for completing the quest.
Add, delete, edit, reorder steps necessary to complete the quest, providing a summary and full walk-through.
Members specify which steps of a quest they have completed.
Import pre-entered quests to save time!

Web-Based Chat

Conduct meetings or strike up a conversation with people online with our AJAX-based chat.
Chat client is fully web-based, requiring no Java runtime, so there's nothing to install, and no firewalls to mess with.
Fully-integrated Instant Messaging for member-to-member chat!

Social Features

Guild members automatically have a blog of their own, including a FaceBook-style "Wall" page where they can post status updates.
Other guild mates visiting a member's site can view and comment on the member's status entries.
A Status Updates content type is available to be placed on any of your guild web pages, and shows status updates entered by guild members.
A Most Recent Bloggers content type can be placed on any guild page, showing the latest blog entries made by guild mates.
Drop the Needs List content type onto any guild page for a place where guild mates can enter things they want to accomplish in-game.
Why bother with an indoor voice when you can use the Shout Box content type, complete with optional alliance sharing?

Other Features

News keep your members up-to-date with the latest guild happenings, subscribable with any RSS reader. Customize display options.
Stories content type allows your members to enter and edit stories, broken up by chapter. If they like, the stories appear on our gaming fan fiction page!
Quotes with random display.
Use the Recruiting Info content type to let visitors know what you're looking for.
Who's Online box shows who's been active on the site within the last 45 minutes -- integrated with the Web-Based mail system.
Information Sections to store things such as raid/loot policies, membership request information, recent brags.
Links to other web sites.
Embedded Pages allow loading of a remote web page within a page.
Custom Text/HTML content with WYSIWYG editing.
XML/XSL transforms will take a remote XML document and apply an XSL stylesheet to display remote data withing your guild pages.
Over 40 different types of content!
GuildPortal renders adaptively for those using an iPhone or a newer Windows Mobile device.

Game-Specific Features : Aion

Automatic roster integration and updating via the Control Panel's Aion Integration section.
Legion Summary widget, showing break-down graphs of your legion by levels and classes.
Item, quest, NPC, and location links in any content using the Aion button in the Wysiwyg editor.
Search widget for finding items, quests, npcs and locations.
Server Info widget that breaks down Asmodian/Elyos influence, and entire server class balance.

Game-Specific Features : World of Warcraft

GP Helper add-on for World of Warcraft facilitates roster and raid drop upload via the Control Panel's WoW Integration section.
Item, quest, NPC links in any content using the WoW button in the Wysiwyg editor.

Game-Specific Features : Dark Age of Camelot

Server Status for both US and European servers.
Searchable Spells Database
Automatic Roster Integration

Game-Specific Features : EverQuest 2

Automatic Roster Integration.

Game-Specific Features : EverQuest

Automatic Roster Integration via the in-game provided Roster Dump.

Game-Specific Features : Lord of the Rings Online

Item hover tips via the Wysiwyg editor.
Automatic Roster Integration.

Full Widget Listing

Add-On Roster for World of Warcraft : Allows guilds hosted at GuildPortal.com to upload guild information to keep rosters up to date, using the GuildPortal GP Helper Add-On.
Aion Legion Summary : Displays summary information about the legion, utilizing automatic data enabled via Aion Integration in the control panel.
Aion Search : Search for information on AION.
Aion Server Info : Displays a break-down of classes and factions for your Aion server.
Auto-Roster for EverQuest 2 : Connects to SOE servers to retrieve and render EQ2-supplied guild rosters. Must know the XML path.
Auto-Roster for Vanguard : Connects to SOE servers to retrieve and render Vanguard XML rosters.
Bank : The Guild Bank application.
Calendar - Enhanced : Calendar with date selection controls on the right and the day's hourly breakdown on the left. Allows viewing of sign-ups for all guilds in an alliance. Recommended placement in the center pane only.
Chat : A chat room where guild members can talk to each other in near real-time.
CoH Server Status : A listing of City of Heroes servers and their status, updated every 15 minutes.
DAOC News Feed : Dark Age of Camelot news provided directly by Mythic
DAOC Server Status : A server status listing for Dark Age of Camelot.
DAOC Server Status (Europe) : Connects to Mythic's servers to retrieve the status of the European servers.
DAOC Spells Database : A searchable database of DAOC spells.
DAOC XML Roster : Connects to Mythic's Servers to retrieve the guild roster.
Embedded Page : An embedded page that will load in its own window, within the page.
EQ News Feed : Provides news directly from EverQuest's Live site.
EQ Roster Dump : A view of the roster file that is exported from EverQuest and uploaded to GuildPortal in plain text format.
EQOA News Feed : Provides news directly from EQOA Live.
Events Box - Small : Small listing of events.
Forums : A full foruming solution.
Free Form Text/HTML : An area containing custom text/HTML.
Game Guides : Member-submitted player guides for the MMORPGs supported by GuildPortal.
Game News : Game news for the game your guild plays.
GP News and Updates : News from the GuildPortal homepage.
Guild Alliance Links : Shows a listing of Allies also using GuildPortal
Guild Funds : The Guild Funds app.
Guild Summary : Shows a tree-view of the guild's portal structure.
Image Gallery : Lists images in the gallery.
Inbox : Full web-based mail system for your users.
Info Sections : Lists articles.
Keys/Flags for Characters : A listing of flags/keys for your game. Shows characters in your guild who have the keys or who do not have them, depending on the selected view.
Library : Categorized library articles.
Links - Categorized List : Links grouped by customizable categories.
Links - Single List : A series of hyperlinks to web destinations or images that administrators have entered for the guild. Clicking on a hyperlink in this box will open the destination URL in a new window.
Medals - Recent Awards : Lists medals that have been awarded to guild members in the past 30 days.
Members - Least Active : Lists your 5 least active users.
Members - Most Active : Lists your top 5 members by activity rating.
Members - Participation Ratings : A listing of all members and their participation ratings on the site.
Members - Tradeskills : Shows tradeskills that members of the guild have. This content type is display-only and does not have an editor.
Needs List : A database of guild member needs, with the ability to schedule events.
News Box - Large : Lists most recent 5 news items. Archived news, RSS feed, member news submission (subject to News Admin approval), categories of news items (with associated images), configurable number of items to display.
News Box - Small : Lists most recent 5 news items. Archived news, RSS feed, member news submission (subject to News Admin approval), categories of news items (with associated images), configurable number of items to display.
Officer Contact List : A listing of officers in the guild, with names clickable to provide an easy way to send messages.
Page View Counter : A counter that displays the number of times the page it's on has been viewed.
PayPal Donate Button : Lets members easily donate to your PayPal account.
Progression : Customizable raid/game progression that lets visitors and your members see where you are in the game.
Quests : A large quests box, displaying information on all quests entered for your guild, with the ability for users to mark steps of quests completed.
Quests Box - Small : A small box, suitable for display in side panes, listing the quests that have been entered for your guild. Clicking on an individual link will result in a quest viewer being opened in a new window.
Quotes : A box that randomly displays one of the admin-entered quotes with the name of the author listed below the quote.
Raid Point Standings : A listing of all guild members and their current raid points.
Random Categorized Image : Displays a random image from a listing of those that were created via a Categorized Images content type.
Random Thumbnails : Random Thumbnails are images that are displayed randomly in their content box, and are useful for things such as member screenshots. It is recommended that you keep the images scaled to a standard size.
Recent Bloggers : A listing of recent blog entries made by members of the guild.
Recent Posts Stand-Alone : A standalone content type that functions the same as the "most recent posts" area underneath the forums, but which can be placed on any guild page, apart from the forums themselves.
Recent Raid Drops : Shows a listing of items recently obtained during raids.
Recruiting Information : Displays information on what classes the guild is recruiting.
Roster : Default rostering system provided by GuildPortal. Some games may have alternate rostering systems.
RSS Feed : Displays items from a remote RSS 2.0 feed.
Shout Box : Lets associates and higher shout.
Status Updates : Listing of recent site and member activity.
Stories : Allows members to read fiction submitted by other members, as well as adding their own. Breaks up stories by author, and allows individual editing/adding of chapters.
Voice Chat Server Status : Shows voice chat server status, for supported voice chat providers or custom script.
Voting Admins Listing : A box that lists the members of your site that have access to administer voting polls.
Voting Polls - Large : A large box, where users can view open polls, view choices, and place their votes. Suitable for display in the main pane.
Voting Polls - Small : Allows users to vote on polls they haven't voted on yet.
Welcome Message : A free-form text/html box for entering a welcome message that you would like visible to anybody visiting your site.
Who's Online : Lists members that are currently logged in.
XML/XSL Transformation : Provided a path to both an XML file and an XSL stylesheet, transforms a document and outputs the results to the browser.