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A little known feature of Ventrilo is the ability to add custom styling such as colors and fonts to the server MOTD. It’s not a built-in functionality of Ventrilo so we will be using a few other programs to make use of styled ventrilo MOTDs: mainly notepad and Wordpad, which should come standard with all modern Windows operating systems. It’s a pretty easy process – just copying and pasting for the most part.
Designing your MOTD with Wordpad
First, to design your new MOTD, you’ll have to start up Wordpad. Open up Wordpad by browsing to your start menu and under accessories you should see it listed. Now, just be creative and design the MOTD to your liking.
Opening up the file with Notepad
Once you’re satisfied with your MOTD, go to File > Save As and save the document somewhere where you’ll remember. Once you’ve saved it, go to the folder where you saved it and right click on the file, then open it up with a notepad — not Wordpad. If you have successfully opened up the file with notepad, you can skip the next paragraph.
Notepad may not appear under the “open with” menu. If it’s not there, click on the “choose default program” option… then expand the “other programs” section and select notepad and uncheck “always use this program to open this type of file” option.
You’re almost there!
Now, you should have notepad in front of you displaying code that looks similar to:
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
{\colortbl ;\red255\green0\blue0;}
{\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.21.2508;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\b\f0\fs32 Welcome to our Ventrilo Server\cf0\b0\fs20\par
\par
This is an MOTD!\par
}
Now, press CTRL + A to select all of the text, and then press CTRL + C to copy it to your clipboard. (Or RT. Click and choose "copy)
Adding it to your Ventrilo Server.
For the final step, open up the MOTD editor in your ventrilo server by logging in as admin, then right click and go to “Server Admin” and select MOTD or Guest MOTD *. Then paste (CTRL + V) it in the window and click on send. Now your custom styled MOTD should be all done!
*Note Guest MOTD will be displayed to all non-users, the regular MOTD option will be displayed to those who have accounts on your ventrilo server.
Conclusion
You should now have a great looking stylish MOTD for your ventrilo server. Ventrilo is a great program which allows for a great deal of customization to be done. PlanetVentrilo offers affordable and easy to use Ventrilo servers for all types of users, clans and guilds. So if you’re ever in need of a new Ventrilo Server, be sure to check out our packages.
Editing Notes
Unfortunately, Ventrilo only supports Rich Text Format (RTF) which allows for basic styling such as fonts, colors, bold, etc. Advanced features like images like you would see in HTML (websites) are not supported.