Checklist time ^^
- Make a new blog banner. It's not that I don't love my Cervantes main team any more [ah how I miss you, Tuon, Aurana, Chimal, and Ravashi], but the banner's getting a bit outdated. I'm going to try something different for a change.
Grace Bernelli, why do I ♥ you so?
- A "show your love for seaGE" campaign! Lots of new content coming in, with V. 2.6 just around the corner and "Third Civilization" too - so what better time to support seaGE than now? Our battle cry shall be:
I believe in seaGE!
I'll be making a blog button and a forum signature / mini-banner for this slogan, so watch out for when I post the new downloadable goodies ^^
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Rounds of applause to the following; wish them luck!
- Winterlake @ Sugar-high!, who says she'll be attempting to put together a GE-based layout for Blogger!
- Stiles @ Northern Imposion, who needs only a proper banner for his blog who now HAS a blog banner, replete with his quirky sense of humor and his...ahem, affection for Lorch ^^
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Lunch time ^^
From Blacksword's latest blog article:
Granado Espada is one of the 9 free MMOs worth playing
The original list is from PC Gamer magazine, and it's reprinted at MMOCrunch: click here to read the full article.
I'm just going say, if the folks at PC Gamer Magazine think Sword of the New World is pretty cool, they REALLY should check out Granado Espada - in particular seaGE, natch. And it's not just because we get updates earlier and stuff.
I believe in seaGE!
[Okay, there's my next project: a banner AND a button with THAT sentiment!]
[I really feel like I'm making up for lost time now ^^]
I went to the Game! Magazine offices today to pick up some stuff and got fairly lucky: along with my complimentary April issue, the one with the Fantazzztic Film Awards winners, they gave me an advanced copy of the May print edition. Here's the cover for that upcoming issue:
Other than the cover, I can give you LOTS of reasons to buy that issue when it hits newsstands:
- Our very own Sigrid reviews the hit anime series Claymore! [I wanna watch that show, just before the rumored second season comes out!]
- TWO Granado Espada articles! In the "Updates" section you'll find not only my report on the GE PH Tribute to the Ladies, but also my report on the Verano Escapade, a.k.a. the GE events at Dom1nation II! These two articles both have lots of photos in with them, although sadly not all of the more than 150 pictures I took in all of the events.
If you want to browse through my pictures of those two events, please check out my Photobucket albums!
NineMoons's Photobucket for GE PH Tribute to the Ladies
NineMoons's Photobucket for GE PH's Verano Escapade @ e-Games Dom1nation IIYou should also check out the magazine's "Game Funnies" section, occupied since April by the webcomic Draw Write Play, drawn by gamer girl Caroline Dy. One of the May strips talks about Granado Espada, particularly where fun with pose books is concerned!
Okay, back to leveling ^^
Anyone who's got a Granado Espada blog out there?
Um, yes, I hoped so.
Anyway, this entry is for all of us seaGE bloggers, both the old hands and the new ones. I'm here to talk about how to give proper credit to other seaGE-related blog entries.
By "giving proper credit", I mean you are linking properly to a blog entry that you liked, AND letting the original blogger know that you liked what they posted ^^ Yes, there's a way to do this. All you need to do is remember a few simple rules, as well as use your right mouse button.
For seaGE bloggers using Blogger / Blogspot:
Couldn't be simpler. Let's use Southernsky's [Guide] Karjalainen's Necklace Crafting as our example.
1. Left-click once on the post's title to be taken to the specific post page.
In this case, it looks like this:
http://telltalesfromgranadoespada.blogspot.com/2008/04/
guide-karjalainens-necklace-crafting.html
2. Copy the specific post page's URL from the address bar.
3. Paste the specific post page's URL in your entry, between the quotes in <a href="">. [Don't forget the matching </a> tag at the end!]
The HTML should look like this:
<a href="http://telltalesfromgranadoespada.blogspot.com/2008/04/
guide-karjalainens-necklace-crafting.html">[Link Text]</a>
4. At the very end of the specific post page's URL, add "#links". No quotes, no spaces. Add it immediately after the .html part.
It now looks like this:
<a href="http://telltalesfromgranadoespada.blogspot.com/2008/04/
guide-karjalainens-necklace-crafting.html#links">[Link Text]</a>
Having the "#links" attribute at the end of the specific post page's URL will make your blog post's title appear at the end of the original post's page, under the heading "Links to this post" - so the original post's author will know that it was you who linked to their posts!
For seaGE bloggers using Wordpress:
For this example, let's use Fiksdotter's blogspotted Bahama Map: My first step.
1. Left-click once on the post's title to be taken to the specific post page.
2. Scroll to the end of the post and find the link named "Trackback URI".
Wordpress has the Trackback feature, which allows blog users to track who has been linking back to them. If they have activated the feature on their blogs, the blogs will have a link list headed "Recent Links", under which the blog posts that have linked to them will appear.
URI means Uniform Resource Identifier. It's the generic term for URLs [Uniform Resource Locators] and URNs [Uniform Resource Names].
3. Right-click on the "Trackback URI" link once, and select "Copy Link Location" [or equivalent] on the context menu.
For the above example, the Trackback URI for Fiksdotter's entry is:
http://ynexounemai.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/
bahama-map-my-first-step/trackback/
4. Paste the copied trackback URI into your HTML code.
Sample HTML would be
<a href="http://ynexounemai.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/
bahama-map-my-first-step/trackback/">[Link Text]</a>
And that's all there is to it!
Hope this will help the seaGE bloggers with linking and promoting each other!
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Thanks to Southernsky and to Fiksdotter for their wonderful and informative blog posts ^^
My entry to pCM Veya's Ultimate Blog Challenge.
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Blog Title
GE PH Gamer Girls' Site de Femme
Slogan
Get your game, your grind, and your gossip ON here!
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In the next entry, the allied mysteries of the "#links" [for Blogger users] and the Trackback URI [for Wordpress users] - how to correctly link back to interesting Granado Espada blog entries - and let the original posters know you liked their articles!
[First in NineMoons's series of how to be a better Granado Espada blogger!]
