Caledonian Crusaders

Useful guides and help on how to do things on this site.

How do I set up Vent ?
Blash provided this some time ago, Click Here for a step by step guide to setting up Vent. Hostname: uk3.ventriloservers.biz Port:3817 the password is provided in game from guild staff.

Adding an Avatar to your profile.
To add an avatar to your profile, just create a square picture on your PC a Jpeg image 96x96 pixels in size.
Then go to "My Account" (top right) and click on the browse button to upload your avatar.

To create a 96x96px image online you can use its very easy,
Step 1. Select "Open Image from computer"
Step 2. Click on the crop tool top left (2a) then set the crop settings (2b).
Step 3. Click drag out a box anywhere and size on the image for your avatar then press "Return", its done
Step 4. Click "File - Save - OK" to put it somewhere on your computer.

Step 2a

Step 2b

Setting your Signature
Click on the "My Account" top right
Click on the "profile tab"
Scroll down and copy and paste the following text to the Forum Signature section.

[url=http://caledoniancrusaders.com ][img]Web address URL to your image [/img][/url] for example
[url=http://caledoniancrusaders.com ][img]http://www.purefineart.co.uk/Share/Callies-Sig/Darkvil-green.png [/img][/url]

Jpegs are fine for signatures, but PNG files are better as you can have transparent sections.
Please try to make you signatures small and in keeping with the web site, thankyou.
We do provide a custom signature service for you See here for the details.

Posting Images to the Gallery
When posting images to the gallery, please ensure that you try to make the file as small as possible in jpeg format, about 300kb is a good size for a screen shot for example. You can use if it helps you.