The next time you visit the College of Arms site you might notice a few changes:
- The FAQ area has been renamed “Guides” and reorganized into three sections: forms & letters, the submissions process, and understanding SENA. All of the content here is the same, but hopefully it will be easier for folks to locate.
- The Sign Heraldry articles page has been reorganized and reformatted to make it easier to scan.
- The Voice Heraldry page has gotten the same reformatting, and now includes links to a few more articles and recorded class videos.
- A new page of articles on Protocol, Precedence, and Presentation has links about things that heralds do outside of events, and the regalia appropriate to the role.
- Elisabetta has written an introductory guide for submitters on finding and submitting names.
- The kingdom college contacts page now includes titles and email addresses for all of the submissions heralds and links to download each kingdom’s submission forms — thanks ETC!
- The About KWHSS page for attendees and the How to Host a KWHSS page have been updated — thanks to Wu for these rewrites!
- The KWHSS History page has been updated with information about some additional years of symposia; thanks to Gisela for assembling the bulk of the data on this page, and we’ll continue to add more details to it in the coming days.
- Codex has done a lot of work behind the scenes to make it easier to manage changes to the site and to allow additional developers to contribute to the process — thanks Reis!
As always, if you notice problems with any of the recently-changed pages or have ideas about further improvements we could make, please get in touch!
[Update, September 18:] Some more updates have rolled out today — with my thanks to Codex for managing the logistics:
- The list of names articles has been given a facelift, with the links to topics and cultures moved higher on the page. https://heraldry.sca.org/names.html
- The list of armory articles has also been cleaned up and reorganized, and now includes links to a few additional articles and class videos. https://heraldry.sca.org/armory_articles.html
- The KWHSS proceedings for 2023 have been published, with ten papers covering onomastics, registration processes, and scribal topics. https://heraldry.sca.org/kwhss/2023/