The OLA website is still in beta and we do not have the funds to support a programmer coder so all of the coding is being done by Mr. Wizard. The achievements are there to give more content to the site and OLA is not trying to spam you, all of the emails are relevant to Ontario League of Artists and its projects. The emails received by the achievements were for rewards that should have been earned over time, but for already experienced users they may have received it all at once, hence the large amount of emails.

If you do not want to receive email notifications for updates to your OLA user account, you can turn them all off on your profile:

1. Login to your OLA account
2. Go to your account page
3. Click Settings tab on the left hand side of your account
4. Under the Options column click Notifications
5. Now highlight yes or no to the events you want be emailed for

Profile Avatars

The avatar black out problem started when the site version was updated, so it is still being figured out. Meanwhile, please check out the forum and post!

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If anyone wishes to help out with the website coding and get this awesome site going,  please email ontarioleagueofartists@gmail.com

Warning: Coding for the site is not paid (yet) but will get you in the good graces of OLA

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“Never discourage anyone… who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” – Plato

Welcome New Comers

I would like to take this time to Welcome again the newest members of OLA from this week.  We are discussing some ideas of challenges people would like to be a part of in the forums.  Our main policy is to have everyone’s voice out, so that you can feel that you are a part of something.  While the group is still a small community, it is a great opportunity to get to know everyone and show each other your work and create groups together.  If you have an idea for a challenge or an activity do no hesitate to let me know, we could develop it and make it a OLA event or activity.

Site Updates!

• The Events are now fixed and can be used again.
• The Featured Art Work is for everyone that has finished art pieces they would like to put up on the front page
• There is a vote yes and no for comments now
• Twire is a way for you to tweet and recieve tweets in OLA

Soon to be prepped and ready is the Achievement feature.  Basically it gives you points for anything you do, msg someone, add someone, join a group, etc.  There are certain issues that needs to be addressed before i can activate it.

This site has been very exciting for me because everyone has such hopeful minds and is open for new things.

The Sketch Session wants to try something new which is going to The mississauga city hall.  let me know what you guys think of it cause so far the weather seems to be good for it.

Until then Peace and Luv everyone!!

The meet up was fantastic! Alot of people showed up this time and we had a blast.  I was scared for the size of the group cause we were running out of tables.  Everyone is obviously concerned about how many people are there so lets open up for some suggestions here to see where’s else is a good place to go to.

So far the places that were mentioned are;

• Front of City Hall (they have benches and seats and tables
• Square One food court

I will be looking during the week for another spot close to the location and i will comment on this post just to update.

There are way too many people to thank for the progress of OLA, so i thank you all! Of course we have still alot to do, but that’s the beauty of it, we want to do it.  I wanna thank especially Amy, Rene, German, Sonny and Casey for alot of the progress OLA has been making.  I don’t wanna say too much right now with what’s been the plan, because its kind of an awesome surprise! ^^ Well that’s all i have for now and i will be doing more updates soon after i make some more upgrades.  Until then PEACE AND LUV!

ps Big Ups to Aaron for showing up! yeah i mean another Aaron i’m not talking about myself in the third person.  Oh and Genevieve, Mariel, Dave, and Westley.  You guys are like the epitome of awesomeness!

Okay so, so far we have put in Albums, Events and the Theme Comicpress. I hope you guys are enjoying it so far because this is not even close to what this site could very well be.
The Album section is a new plugin and its fairly simple to use.  If you find yourself short of memory loading your images just let me know.
Events are for anyone creating a gathering or anything that’s coming up involving OLA.  In the future we would like to have get togethers in all different cities and towns. Also in the future we will be setting up OLA artshows for members trying to set one up. Remember things are still in working in progress so we wont be able to do the artshows untill maybe next year or fall.
Now if you have created a blog within OLA or would like to we will be controlling the amount of blogs set up for now. So if you definitely would like to be a part of one or would like to create one for everyone to contribute, please contact me and we can arrange something. So for the ones that have created a blog and is thinking of making it into a webcomic. The new feature Comicpress will turn your blog into a full pledge Webcomic. Don’t forget to go into your dashboard and also add within the plugins the comicpress manager once you switch to comicpress theme.  This will organize and help make the webcomic experience even better.  I hope this has been informative because i will be doing this alot for the beta version.  Peace and Luv everyone!