What is the Emperor News Kit?

In an effort to support our fansites, we have created this special program which will give visitors to your site the following benefits:

• You will have updated news for your visitors directly from the creators of Emperor as soon as it is available.
• You will be added to Westwood's mailing list, and receive all press releases as soon as the magazines get them.
• You may qualify to have your site listed on the official Emperor site, which receives MANY tens of thousands of visitors weekly.
• You may qualify to attend special events, receive special Emperor mailers, and other cool bonuses!

There are currently two levels of participation in this program...

OUTPOST SITES: All Emperor Outpost sites are added to Westwood's press release mailing list. Outpost sites also have permission to post the official Emperor news applet on their page. This applet is updated by Westwood Studios and is the newest, most up-to-date information available on Emperor. It will be a REALLY good thing to have for your visitors when we get close to the release date.
Outpost sites must observe the following rules:

1. Do not link to or promote any adult sites. This includes banner ads for adult sites.
2. Do not link to or promote any sites or information that provide or support hacking or pirating.
3. Do not link to or promote cheating within any Dune game in any way.
4. Place the legal text required for use of our images on the homepage of your Emperor fansite.
5. Place your Emperor: Battle for Dune News Kit banner ad on either your home page, or your main news page.

All graphic images created by Westwood Studios and released in this fan site kit remain the property of Westwood Studios and Electronic Arts. Be sure you have fully read the legal agreement that allows you to use these and all the other Emperor images available for download. Westwood Studios at its sole discretion may ask that these images be removed from a website for any reason. By using the images in this fan site kit you agree to remove these images from your website if asked to do so by a representative from Westwood Studios or Electronic Arts.

STRONGHOLD SITES: Emperor Stronghold sites must observe the above rules, but must also be primarily geared toward Emperor. General gaming sites and sites which promote a variety of miscellaneous games are eligible to become outpost sites, but not Stronghold sites. To become a Stronghold site, you must :

1. Operate a Emperor oriented site with news, a message board, screenshots, and whatever else helps to make your site one of the best. In case you do not have a message board, we invite you to link to the official Emperor message board (English) at http://www.westwood.com/boards/emperor/english/index.html.
   
2. Update your site at least once every week with news, screenshots, or some other "new" thing.
   
3. Stronghold sites receive a listing on the official Emperor website at Westwood Studios, as well as the news banner, and all Westwood Studios press releases. Sites that cannot become Stronghold sites are those that cover a wide variety of games and are not Emperor specific.

HOW TO INSTALL THE EMPEROR NEWS KIT

Cut and paste the text provided below EXACTLY as it appears there and place it in your webpage. Then, copy the images below into the same directory on your web server that hosts the page which contains the HTML code you just cut and paste. (for example, if you cut and paste the html code from newskit.html into a file called index.html on your web server, then you will want to copy all the graphic files into the same directory where your index.html resides.) If you accidentally add linefeeds to the text, your graphics may appear disjointed. After the banner is in place, please write to fansites@westwood.com and let us know your full name, email address, mailing address, and phone number. I'll verify that its up and working properly, and I'll add you to our press mailing list as well as add your site to our list of Emperor fansites if you have met all the requirements. Your full mailing address is *VERY* important, as well as your phone number. Make sure you include this information as we will automatically enter you into any contests or special mailings that we send out exclusively for our fansite operators (no one will phone you, but a phone # is required for UPS in the event we send something out to your house).