This guide gives a brief overview of the new features of the site, together with a quick walkthrough of the site's layout.

CONTENTS

The New Features Your Site Store Finder Search Facility Site Map Breadcrumbs & Quick Links Navigation Side Bar Navigation The Lord of The Rings Breadcrumbs & Quick Links

Community Events Gaming Clubs Forums Cookies & JavaScript Cookies JavaScript

THE NEW FEATURES

Having been redesigned and rebuilt, the new Games Workshop UK Online Website is a monstrous creation sporting several new features.

YOUR SITE

The 'Your Site' feature allows you to tailor the website to your own requirements, displaying only the information that is of interest to you. Simply enter the details of your favourite games, armies and other areas of importance to you, and each time you visit the page, you will be shown all the latest articles in your selected sections.

STORE FINDER

Newly revised and updated, the Store Finder allows you to search for all Hobby Centres and Independent Stockists throughout the UK and Ireland. With a much improved search facility in place, you can search not only by county, but also by postcode, telephone area code, town and city.

If you still can't find the store you're after, there's even a graphical representation of the UK and Ireland that you can simply click on to see a full listing of all Hobby Centres and Independent Stockists in a given area.

Once you have found the store you're looking for, you can view full store details, including contact telephone numbers, opening times, local bus and train routes, and even see what products and game systems they hold in stock.

SEARCH FACILITY

Every article on the site has been catalogued and recorded, allowing you to perform a search for whatever articles you want. Simply enter any key words or phrases (such as "Mordor" or "Marneus Calgar") into the search field, select the area of the site you wish to search through (such as "The Lord of The Rings" or "Warhammer" etc), and let the search engine do the rest!

SITE MAP

The Site Map allows you to search the entire website at a glance. By indexing all the armies, races and factions across all three core game systems, you can view entire sections alphabetically. By selecting a letter and clicking on 'Show Sitemap' you can see all races beginning with that letter, together with a complete list of associated articles.

BREADCRUMBS & QUICK LINKS

A new feature to the website are the 'breadcrumbs', found at the bottom of every page. The breadcrumbs are covered in more detail under Navigation.

NAVIGATION

The website itself has been split into Games Workshop's three core game systems: Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000 and The Lord of The Rings. These are clearly labelled in the navigation bar across the top of each page, together with links to the News page, Community homepage, White Dwarf homepage, and a link to the Specialists Games ranges.

Each of the three core game system sections has been divided into the component armies, forces and factions that make up that game system. Articles relating to each army have been included within each of the army/force pages, meaning that you should rarely have to make more than three clicks to get to the article you want!

eg Warhammer > Ogre Kingdoms > Ogre Kingdoms Miniatures

Each Section now features a set of 'basic' articles, found on each army homepage such as:

Who Are...	Giving a brief overview of the race/army.
Getting Started...	Explaining all you need to know to start your chosen army.
Miniatures Range...	Displaying all current miniatures in each range.

Other articles of interest found on each of the army homepages include:

Designers Notes...	Often taken from White Dwarf, the designers' explain their thoughts and reasoning behind the army/force creation.
Wallpapers...	Download a series of desktop wallpapers to your computer
Art Gallery...	Showcasing the vivid art created during the visualisation process of designing the miniatures

And of course, much, much more, such as terrain-building articles, painting guides, background stories and beyond.

SIDE BAR NAVIGATION

The navigation panels, located down the left-hand side of each page, contain a number of panels with links to related articles and pages.

The topmost panel is the Recent Articles panel that displays the four newest articles to have been added to the current section you are viewing.

The Utilities panel includes a link to bookmark the present page, as well as links to email the page to someone else, or view a printable version of the page.

The final panel displays links to all areas associated to the section you are viewing. For example, while in the Warhammer 40,000 section, viewing the Imperial Guard homepage, you will see links to all other armies/races in the Warhammer 40,000 universe together with links to the Warhammer 40,000 Resource pages such as the Chapter Approved, Cityfight, Modelling, Painting and Terrain homepages.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS

The Lord of The Rings section of the website has been designed with the films and books in mind and, as such, can be viewed not only by race/faction as described above, but also by film and by book.

What does this mean? Quite simply, if you want to learn about the Dwarves of Moria for example, you may find what you want either by visiting the Dwarves homepage, or by visiting The Fellowship of The Ring homepage. In either case, both links are easily accessible from the navigation side bars on any of The Lord of The Rings homepages.

BREADCRUMBS & QUICK LINKS

Located at the bottom of each page of the website, the breadcrumb links allow you to keep trace of where you are in the site, and even allow you to back-track up through the levels.

Similarly, due to the nature of the website's architecture and the straight-forward naming conventions of files and folders used, you can simply type the address of the page you want to view into the address bar of your browser as shown below:

Dwarfs Homepage:	/dwarfs/
Who Are The Dwarfs:	/dwarfs/who-are/
Necrons Homepage:	/necrons/
Necrons Designers' Notes:	/necrons/designers-notes/

COMMUNITY

The Community section of the website, accessible via the top navigation bar, now gathers together all information outside of the three core game systems, such as Events, Gaming Clubs and Forums etc.

EVENTS

The Events homepage now features a state-of-the-art Events Diary that not only displays all upcoming events, but also allows you to search for specific events and display the results of a search to your own requirements.

All information pertaining to specific events can now be found on the relevant event homepage, together with rules packs, reviews of previous events and details of forthcoming events.

Games Day and Golden Demon now have homepages devoted to them and showcase some of the previous years of our premier gaming event.

GAMING CLUBS

The pages contained here are a resource for people and hobbyists who are looking to set up their own gaming clubs or simply want to join existing clubs in their area. Whatever size or type of Gaming Club, we aim to provide support and advice. We want to encourage people to take part in and enjoy the hobby.

FORUMS

The Games Workshop Forums continue to be as popular as ever, providing a place for hobbyists to chat about games, talk about army tactics, find out about upcoming events and new releases, and discuss just about anything else related to the Games Workshop Hobby.

COOKIES AND JAVASCRIPT

This website makes extensive use of cookies and JavaScript.

COOKIES

Cookies are small pieces of electronic information that a website can store on a visitor's hard drive to track your movement within a website. This allows us to 'personalise' the site to match your individual preferences. The use of cookies is standard on the Internet and many major websites use them.

We never store personally identifiable information in a cookie. You can choose to set your browser to notify you whenever you are sent a cookie. This gives you the option to decide whether or not to accept a cookie. However, it is worth noting that you will find some areas, in particular the 'Your Site' feature and the Online Store, will not function properly if you do not instruct your computer to accept cookies.

You can read more about the use of cookies in Games Workshop's Online Privacy Policy.

JAVASCRIPT

JavaScript is a scripting language from Netscape. Not to be confused with the Java programming language, JavaScript is intended to provide a quicker and simpler language for enhancing web pages and servers.

JavaScript is embedded as a small program in a web page that is interpreted and executed by the Web browser, often executed by mouse functions, buttons, or other actions from the user. JavaScript can be used to control many browser functions and attributes. Without JavaScript, you will not be able to view some of the features of this website, such as printable pages.

To get the best from what the site has to offer, you will need to enable cookies and JavaScript in your Internet browser.

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