April 25, 2009 - New Members and Other Stuff

Welcome our new members to [AvA]: IAmTheReaper, Picard, SenWolf, LikeAbleGuy and Meren. We are glad to have all of you here and I am glad to be here! We also had a few scrims yesterday against Clan Seven and Clan WTF, we had a great time gaming with both of those clans and hope to do so again. Also this week, I (Picard) decided to update the news because FreeDos has been busy lately and I decided it was time for an update. Anyways lets get gaming in UrT! - Picard

March 28, 2009 - Site Back Up

After a week and a half of down time our forums are now back up and our web site has moved. This is due to Senwolf hosting our forums and web site on his server for us. Next tine you see him in game you should thank him. Also you may notice the new layout of our front page, this is because I wanted to do a more minimalist approach to our web site, so it would look better and more professional, and load faster. Also I ran a spell checker for the first time since I have made the site, 96 corrections, why didn't you guys tell me I can't type? -Freedosbot

March 17, 2009 - Forums Down

Forums are down, I submited a ticket to our host, it seems that they have lost our forum and its backup due to a hardware failure, who knew? -Freedosbot

March 05, 2009 - New Member

Welcome our newest member [AvA]Papi! -Freedosbot

January 03, 2009 - Server Upgrade

We have currently upgraded our Urban Terror server, actually we bought a new one. Gameservers.com was having a 50% off sale on all new game server purchases. So we decided we would go ahead and buy a brand new server with 4 extra slots, for about $10 less than we are currently paying for our 16 man server. Unfortunately the money we already paid towards our server is non-transferable so we will have to run it until the funds run out in about 2 months. Until then we will use it as a practice server and whatnot. On the new server we have decided that 4 out of 20 slots are going to be private slots, requiring a password to use them. This will allow members of [AvA] to join the server even when it looks like it is full. -Freedosbot

December 22, 2008 - Something's up with the forum.

We all know the forum has been pretty slow recently but the past 2 days it has been completely shutting down for long periods at a time. The worse news is neither me nor Kizit remember who we are using to host our mysql database for the forum, so chances are we're just going to have to wait it out and hope the forum comes back up, then we can talk about what we're going to do about the forum. -Freedosbot

December 09, 2008 - How The Site Is Coming Along

The new site is coming a long nicely, bet you guys can't wait to see what is going on with it so I'm going to tell you some of the things I have gotten done. Right now I have almost all of the front page done. There is links on the right to important Urban Terror information as well as other sites affiliated with [AvA]. On the main page we have a news frame for scrolling through all of our news and events posts I've made (this thing was tough to create without copying one, I had to read through Dreamweaver's help for like a half hour). Also I made a completely custom navigation bar that is normally red but when you go over a button it turns blue. I also created a new image banner for the top that looks pretty nice. Then we have other pages that list information about our members, our servers, our history, and other things that are very important. The members page is very detailed with a legend telling of the different roles a member can play. Anyway's, just though I'd update you guys on the progress of the new site. -Freedosbot

November 26, 2008 - Joining STA and Looking For New Members

Last night I signed us up for both the CTF League and the TS League under the Stronger Than All League. Due to this we are currently looking for new members who have a good attitude and are interested in league play. If you are interested you can check out this forum thread here -Freedosbot

November 01, 2008 - Working on New Site Template

Currently I am taking a web design class at my high school and part of our final grade is a web site we have to design ourselves. After not being able to figure out what I could make for my site I finally decided on the very BEST thing ever. What better site to build than one about a topic I care very much about, video games and my clan. Seeing how I've been wanting to create our own web site instead of just editing other free templates available I decided what a better opportunity to do something I already wanted to do, AND get a grade in school for it. So Now I will work on making our own site and getting it up sometime before Christmas. Hopefully it turns out awesome and everybody likes it because there will be a lot of improvements and it will be an easier design. -Freedosbot

October 07, 2008 - New Urban Terror Server and Teamspeak Server

Yes, that is right my friends! Thanks to major contributions of our member [AvA]Lee_Stricklin our clan is now running a Teamspeak Server and an Urban Terror Server. The name of our Urban Terror Server is "[AvA] Public Server" and it's ip is "8.6.74.186", more information on our server can be found here. As for our Teamspeak Server it's server address is "ts59.gameservers.com:8770". Look forward to seeing people playing on there with all of you, have fun everybody! -Freedosbot

September 15, 2008 - Members Only Forum

Now registered members of our clan can access a specific forum just for them not available to normal registered users. In here we discuss upcoming matches, changes to the site, potential members, and each other's lives. Just another reason why all the noobs are going to want to join our clan (just kidding!) -Freedosbot

September 04, 2008 - New Homepage Template!

So if you are reading this, then I imagine you've already noticed the new look of the site. You see, I wasn't completely happy with the way the old template worked in the new version of firefox (details can be found in the August 06 post). So I decided I would use a new template instead. I felt that the new one was more fitting and aesthetically appealing, and I hope you like it also. So basically with the one being used now, I edited the main page to the way it looks on our site compared with the original template, I also created the banner image and footer image, as well as edited the background image to include the letters AVA scrolling vertically down it. I didn't do all the editing on my own though, Kizit was the one who installed the iframe for news posts (as he did on our original template) and he also made the layout for the members and history pages. Also, Kizit created the contact page for the new template, something I really had no clue how to do. Anyway's this is the gist of things right now, hope you enjoy the new layout and have a great day! -Freedosbot

August 06, 2008 - Effects of Different Web Browsers

For those of you who have installed the newest release of Firefox, 3.0.1 you might have noticed that our header and footer aren't aligned quite perfectly. Both our header and footer are moved over to the right about a pixel. This is not our fault and is actually Firefox's fault. If you go here, the place were we got our original script from, you will notice the same problem. Other versions of Firefox ranging from 2.0 to 3.0 work fine with out scripting. This error with Firefox 3.0.1 has prompted me to see how our site looks in (the dreaded) Internet Explorer. Visiting the site where we originally got our script from I saw that IE did not have the problem with the header and footer being unaligned, but whenever you went off of the main part of the site your mouse would always stay in "text highlight mode". Now when I visited our actual site our header and footer were aligned and looking sharp, and your mouse would still stay in text highlight mode when you left the center of the page too. Besides those I also noticed two more things that were different in Internet Explorer than they were in Firefox. First, our news section had a black background and the letters where in gray, instead of a white background and black letters like they should be. The last thing I noticed was that the image in our header that links back to our main page didn't have the link span all the way across the top of the page like it did in Firefox, meaning if you clicked to the left or the right of the image it would not link you back to the main site, only if you click on the actual image will you go back to the main page. This is something I have been trying to figure out how to fix in Firefox for a while. Anyway's I thought I would share that little cross browser adventure I had with all of you. Thanks for tuning in to today's broadcast. -Freedosbot

July 11, 2008 - Making The Forum A Better Place

So today Kizit spent some time working on transferring the forum over to 110mb.com from our previous host. After running into a lot of trouble in trying to get all of our posts and members to stay on the forum he finally succeeded. So now our forum can be found at http://urtava.com/forum/ instead of the previous domain that had a lot of useless characters and was really hard to remember. Also Kizit upgraded updating the phpbb version from 3.01 to 3.02 on our forum in order to keep it up to date. Thanks for tuning in to today's message! -Freedosbot

July 10, 2008 - It's Our One Month Anniversary!

That's right, today is the sites one month anniversary from when we started it. And we have some huge updates for you on this awesome day. First and foremost is the fact that we now have our own domain! That's right, thanks to the awesome guys over at http://juxtaflo.com/ we now have our own domain. No longer will you have to type out "http://urtava.110mb.com/index.html" when you want to check the page, all you have to type is "urtava.com". Other news is that we added a few more ads and a google search box for convenience. Also we now have this awesome iframe thing that is down below. Basically it has all our updates stored in it and you can scroll through previous updates without us taking up an 80 foot long page. So here's to our anniversary guys, drink up.... on Mt. Dew or Dr. Pepper of course ;) -Freedosbot

(also if any of the above stuff about the anniversary sounds dumb to you then you are stupid!)

July 09, 2008 - Google Adsense

As you can most probably see there are some ads down at the bottom of the page, but don't worry, they didn't just appear there on their own. Me and Kizit decided we would try it out and add some to the site. One other thing Kizit did was to remove the light blue box that was around the affiliates and favorite links to the left. I thought that having it just white around them looked better and was less distracting. -Freedosbot

July 07, 2008 - Small Updates Here And There

So anyway's me and kizit have been working for the past 3 hours doing stuff to the site and even though they may be small we think that they are also very important. I managed to streamline some of the interface by reducing the top and bottom of the pages to contain only 3 links, including a link to the top and a link to the bottom of the page depending upon where you are at. (Kizit helped ALOT with that so here's a thanks to him). Also I stuck the link to the forum where the sinister page link used to go so it could hang with all the "cool" and "popular" links. I kinda gave up on actually developing the sinister page into something that was of actual value but I did at least give it a purpose, as some people may come to find out ::laughs manically:: In other news Kizit has been repeatedly breaking our forum and then fixing it for the past 15 minutes so I'm not sure how things are going to work out over ther... -Freedosbot

June 25, 2008 - New Member And Other Info

Yes, that's right, we have a new member!!!! OMEGAWOOT His name is T-Fun, a great guy and former member of the [STD] Clan, he is a really good UrT player and just plain one of the most fun people to play with/against. Other news is that I'm making ranks for our members, these include: Founder, Clan Leader, Team Captain, Member, Honorary Member (or as kizit suggested "Temporary Member" LOL). Team Captain is for people who aren't in charge of the entire clan, but who do have a lot of say in a particular area or mode type, like team death match. Honorary Members are people who are in the clan simply because we know then and/or we are friends with them, but not because of their actual skill levels, these people will almost certainly not participate in a match unless we are: pressed for members, they improve in skill level, or it is just a fun/friendly match. Thanks and have a nice day ppl!ONE!11 (Also during this post I messed some of the script up so take a chill pill, the site will be fixed as soon as pigs fly Kizit gets to it. - Freedosbot

June 13, 2008 - The Site Is Coming Together Nicely!

Hey Hey Hey, This is Kizit coming at you with our daily update on the happenings of the site. Something that we last minute decided on was a having a forum, which I put together today. It's located here. So go there, check it out, have a smoke, post a bit. You know? Also, The web site was acting up a bit, but freedosbot go that fixed. We have yet to figure out what we are going to put on the sinister page, you can give us suggestions via the mail form on the contact page. We also have a pickachu translated version of our page now, compliments of freedosbot having to much free time. :] That's your update for today, have a great life. - Kizit

June 12, 2008 - Got A Lot Accomplished!

Hey, for those who haven't noticed me and Kizit got a lot done yesterday. I made the "members page" and added some content, but Kizit added most of the content. Also Kizit made the "contact" page, although he tells me that it is a little messed up and he needs to do some more work on it. Also Kizit made and did all the content on the "[AvA] History" page so that is done also. All the affiliates and favorite links were put up by me. I'm not sure what I will do today other than add a little bit more content. So anyway's, look forward to some updates! - Freedosbot

June 11, 2008 - Second Day, More To Come!

Today I will once again be working on the site and adding content to it. Look forward to some new info and stuff. I don't know how much I will be able to do though because Kizit Needs to finish making some of the pages. - Freedosbot

June 10, 2008 - First Day On New Site!

Today Kizit and I began work on this web site, he got the script and edited it to my suggestions, and I will be providing content for the internet to read. Hopefully this will be a fun time for all of us and I can learn a little about web editing on the way. - Freedosbot