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There are plans for more practices though and Sunday seems like a good time for them. But I’m not involved with the practice scheduling so perhaps they’ve got that sorted already.
Holy crap! You are a fast learner!
Is that your own design, or did you pinch it from some where? It looks very professional, so kudos to you if it’s your own design. You should also change “Web site contents” to “Web site contents and design” so people know it’s your design and not just your content. You could just add a generic copyright tag like I’ve stuck in this site, but since it’s your own site you may as well take credit for it <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” />The lightbox method I was recommending last time was the Javascript one. I’ll post back another day with a quick explanation of how to get it to work. The CSS one is no good, you don’t want that at all as you (AFAIK) need to download all the images on loading the page, which takes forever. The Javascript one just nicely pops out a graceful looking pop over image – it still works without Javascript on but it opens the image as a link, rather than as a pop over.
The colour changing buttons don’t seem to load the heading for some reason.
You have an H1 and a bunch of H4s. The mega geeks tell me that you should really have a series of them, ie: if you have an H1 and an H3, then you need to have an H2 as well. There’s a bunch of reasons, most obvious is that logically if you have an H1 heading then you would naturally expect that an H2 would follow, then an H3 etc. There’s possibly also advantages with SEO (search engine optimisation) but I suspect it doesn’t make a lick of difference – but best be on the safe side none the less.
Some mouseovers on those colour changing buttons would be nice.
You’ve got the forum working <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” /> Now lets see you integrate it into your site, menu and all! Not an easy task I suspect. The DIHA forum was much easier as I could just chuck the forum inside the main content box of the website, but in your case that may look a little silly as your main content box is quite small. Messing round with forum themes is a bit nightmarish sometimes too, although SMF is supposedly not too bad – I haven’t tried it before though.[code:2zab3am2]<style>@import”style.css”;</style>
<link>[/code:2zab3am2]Why not add the style.css file the same way as blue.css? @import is an old hack for really old browsers which you don’t need to worry about any more. There’s some info. about it here [url:2zab3am2]http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ImportHack[/url:2zab3am2].
Other than that … nice code <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” /> Damn good work <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="” title=”Smiley” />If you go check the code in many (most?) professionally designed sites and you’ll see that they’re considerably worse than your own.
cheers,
RyanAssuming there’s no changes from the team registration process from last year, you wont need to register as an individual. Mark will be doing that.
He’ll be getting you to fill in the forms at some stage and the team will pay a flatrate rather than on a per player basis.
Ryan,
Late reply, but my five cents worth anyway. More of a holistic/trying to develop things ready for the future type of approach rather than waiting for numbers to increase to the point where a league is necessary. Start small, work towards something bigger yadayada.
"Kyle":uagjpakj wrote:There were 13 peewees at practise on Tuesday, including my son (very exciting!). They’ll get some more registrations and some kiwihockey kids, so I suspect they’ll make it up to two teams. So they’ll be playing a semi-regular game Saturday 5:30.[/quote:uagjpakj]I suspect if there was a league and more promotion going on, the peewees would jump in numbers. You only need 3 teams to call something a league so I don’t see any issue with it.
"Kyle":uagjpakj wrote:Midgets I can’t imagine are any better, but they might be able to pull in some high school kids who aren’t playing for the Association. They’re playing a game Saturday 6:30.[/quote:uagjpakj]If the club can create an aura of superiority about the DIHA league over the high schools league, I think a fleet of players could be recruited into a midgets league. A structure in which all players can compete in the schools league but only the best get into the midgets league and then the best from the midgets league get to play in the SIHL league and then the best from the SIHL league go play in the SIHL team at Nationals and then the best from Nationals go play for NZ, bla bla bla. Should be good for 6 good teams IMO. It would require someone driving it from the ground up though and I suspect no one will volunteer – or at least no one capable of it will.
A Junior league could also be an option, but it might be hard getting the numbers together as many of them will prefer to play seniors instead.
I don’t think the paper work involved in forming a league would be terribly complicated, essentially all that is required is a rego form and an event notice. A few modifications to the rule book could make things less complicated if necessary.
"Kyle":uagjpakj wrote:Women are struggling to make 1 team. And if they took every woman playing hockey and put them out there for a game, they might squeeze up to two teams, [/quote:uagjpakj]Not true IMO, there’s plenty of female players, there’s just no one there to pool them all together and get them organised. As Phil PJ would put it, t’s kind of like a chicken and egg scenario, if they don’t form a womens league, they wont get enough players for the league. Might as well scrimp the barrel for a start and get some sort of competition up and running. The women told me a few years ago that there wasn’t enough players for one team in Dunedin and they were struggling to get players even for tournaments held in Dunedin. So I ran that one off tournament between the Dunedin women plus a few more players I gave them and the Dunedin Aces women and then had a half female, half male team as the third one. There are a lot more female hockey players in Dunedin now than there was back then. Practises at the Big Chill were struggling to get even 5 players. DIHL has less female players too I think and there was far less female players in the schools league. Again though, it needs someone to drive it forward and I suspect no one can be bothered.
"Kyle":uagjpakj wrote:but the difference between some of the beginners they’d have to throw on, and Zanzee and Megan etc. [/quote:uagjpakj]Same problem in ChCh, but it seems to work and their league is very popular, well, they have four teams at least. Many of their top female players still compete despite it being quite easy for them.
"Kyle":uagjpakj wrote:I’d be keen to see the women entering as a B grade team, and maybe an allowance for Zanzee to play down or something to help them out. [/quote:uagjpakj]Yeah, would be nice if they’d do that. Perhaps the DIHL should have an option on the rego form for joining an all female team? If they can’t do it themselves then organise it for them?
"Kyle":uagjpakj wrote:I presume by SNC you mean DIHL? C grade isn’t confirmed, but if we get 8 B teams we’ll go for it. [/quote:uagjpakj]"Kyle":uagjpakj wrote:Contact… worth exploring, but there’s issues we both know about.[/quote:uagjpakj]Chicken and egg situation again IMO. Players wont learn to play contact unless they get the chance! Start small, work towards something bigger.
I’ll second that, intermediate session kicked butt. My first attempt at playing since busting my leg last year and it all went fine <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” /> Leg did bung up a bit at the end, but hopefully I’ll manage the whole session next week <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="” title=”Smiley” />Ryan,
I can’t make it tonight as I’m wheeling and dealing with some mega science nerds. But it would be great if someone could go along and help Kyle as this is a seriously good opportunity to help the club out as it will bring a lot of funding back to the club eventually.
"Kyle":1grnp8nt wrote:Yeah. It’d be an interesting experiment anyway. Probably wouldn’t work very well from the stands on the side of the rink as they start at ground level and therefore wouldn’t have a great angle on a picture flat on the ice.[/quote:1grnp8nt]I was meaning project it from the grandstand at the side anyway, as most of the spectators are usually there.
Ryan,
If you projected it from the grandstand, the people in that grandstand wouldn’t see any distortion.
Ryan,
While we’re on the topic! I’ve messed round with lots of the programming of the forum (stopping spam and trying to get photo uploading working) and this may cause problems with some of the functions in the control panel.
So although you have access to it, don’t change anything as it may break something!
I can’t imagine you were intending to, but just incase I thought I’d better let you know.
Ryan,
"leftrightconfused":3i19153b wrote:Perhaps we could get funding for some windows?[/quote:3i19153b]Sorry, you’ve lost me! What are the windows for?
Ryan,
Nothing has changed. They just need to register as per normal and I can give them access if they pass on their username to me. It’s done via the control panel of the forum. I’d rather do that myself than have you do it just so I know exactly who does and doesn’t have access to what.
Ryan,
7 grades <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” />Peewee grade
Midget grade
SNC – A. B and C
Women – if the women pull their finger out!
Contact – if someone can be found to organise it!"Kyle":1qb8v9ie wrote:Yeah, but the use that indoor cricket netting gets, where a ball is hit against it a few times each game, compared to netting behind a hockey goal where someone is practising slapshots… And I don’t know how fast cricket balls get hit, but I’d presume hockey pucks are a fair bit faster, and they’re shaped more to damage netting.[/quote:1qb8v9ie]
[quote:1qb8v9ie]Well I guess if the eventual wall was to replace netting, you’d have gone to the effor t of buying and putting up nets, when they weren’t needed in the eventual finished unit.[/quote:1qb8v9ie]True, but if it doesn’t matter if the puck goes through the nets then it shouldn’t be a problem, ie: if the only thing behind the net is a protected cooling thingamabob.
[quote:1qb8v9ie]Should there be weights/gym area? What are the other needs of that area? Do they still store the Xmas show stuff up there?[/quote:1qb8v9ie]
Yes, that’s already being planned too, but not by me. There’s already some gym equipment up there for the purpose. The Xmas stuff I assume can be moved elsewhere or Deanna wouldn’t be behind the project. As far as I know the area is set aside at this stage for this purpose, Deanna said they had the go ahead for it, or at least that’s how I understood.
[quote:1qb8v9ie]There’s no clamouring for the players for it. Phil raised this almost a year ago and no one’s been pushing it until February this year.[/quote:1qb8v9ie]
I suspect no one is aware of it hence no one pushing for it, I had no idea of that plan till Phil showed me a week or so ago, most of the players I’ve shown the area think it’s great idea, well, that’s three so far – but 3/3 isn’t bad.
My question would be: Do we really need anything more than a netted in area? Assuming here that it would be okay not to have a barrier behind the goal – which I’m still not sure of. If someone wanted to add a fancy surface later that wouldn’t be a problem, just unbolt the nets, stick down the surface and re-attach the nets. I’m really not sure walls are of any use, apart from to keep pucks in. This is just a shooting/passing area, not somewhere to play games or anything like that so it doesn’t exactly need to be an exotic glassed in, plastic boarded thing.
Ryan,
