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"Kyle":3w687xrp wrote:No news on the car, Kyle ended up refereeing 7 games over the weekend, and knackered doesn’t cover it at all.[/quote:3w687xrp]
It turned up a few blocks from her flat, but is now a write off apparently <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sad.gif" alt="
” title=”Sad” />[b:3qsmyi4j]In case anyone’s interested:[/b:3qsmyi4j]
I’ve found a better way to do the calendar now.
There’s a mock up which I’m working on now at [url:3qsmyi4j]http://wordpress.getasportsite.com/[/url:3qsmyi4j]. You may need to scroll down the page a bit to find it. It allows me to give certain users permission to update the calendar and edit their events but not edit any events posted by others. So the SIHL could update it with SIHL stuff, DIHL could update with their stuff etc. etc. It should also be possible to tie in the logins with the forum, kinda like how the gallery works.
The Calendar also has a button which allows you to import a feed from the calendar which will automatically update an iCal (Mac) or Sunbird (Windows/Mac) calendar program. There’s also a full list of all events in chronological order with a full description of each event.
The software is actually part of a blogging tool called WordPress which I’m thinking of using as a CMS system for the site. What would normally be considered blob posts would be made in various categories (DIHL, SIHL, etc.) and the latest of these would appear on the “Latest News” section of the home page. It wouldn’t look like a blog at all, but the concept of posts rather than pages would be adopted. I got this idea from a suggestion Kyle gave me about a year ago about linking “Latest News” posts to other areas of the site with the full article.
Ryan,
PS: I did a quick calc on how big a video file of a single period of the Premier game on the weekend would be. Came out at around 300 MB!!!! Will be interesting to see if anyone’s willing to download the whole thing or not. The full Stampede game would be close to 1 GB without reducing the resolution or compressing the heck out of it.
Sounded like a pretty crappy result – I heard about it from Jane. What happened? You guys should have destroyed them easily.
Was anyone missing from the team?
Ryan,
"Azzy77":2vv3ml5l wrote:Why are the games so late on tuesday nights, if there are two games why don’t we play 7 and 8 instead of 8 and 9.playing after nine gets the blood going to much so you can’t get to sleep to 1 o’clock and that sucks[/quote:2vv3ml5l]
Yeah, that sucks eh. SNC practice at 9pm, then game at 9:10pm the next night would be too little sleep for me.
Ryan,
"Chris":3jcl82gg wrote:I like the look and esp. the menu[/quote:3jcl82gg]
Yep, very elegant <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
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"Chris":3jcl82gg wrote:P.S. I’ve already had a look at the source code of dunedinicehockey.hellyer.kiwi and it looks flash![/quote:3jcl82gg]Actually it’s got lots of errors, I’m just too lazy to fix them <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/tongue.gif" alt="
” title=”Tongue” />Um, well I’ve had a few beers, but thought I’d have a crack at critiquing this thing anyway (don’t look at the code behind dunedinicehockey.hellyer.kiwi as I definitely don’t practice what I preach!) …
[b:lkxqkgx6]Critique:[/b:lkxqkgx6]
[code:lkxqkgx6]font-family: ‘trebuchet ms’, verdana, tahoma, arial;[/code:lkxqkgx6]
You need to add ‘sans-serif’ in there in case someone doesn’t have any of those fonts on their computer. In fact I’d flag Arial as the chances are that most machines will default to that anyway as long as you specify “Sans-serif” in there.You seem to have a lot of these in there:
[code:lkxqkgx6]position: fixed;[/code:lkxqkgx6]
Whereas the only thing which seems to be fixed is the main content. Although I’m not sure that’s a good idea as presumably we’ll eventually have too much content there and users will need to scroll to see it. So why not scroll the whole page instead of just the content? It also opens up the possibility of users only having their browser window opened to say 100px high – unlikely, but nice to accommodate none the less (particularly important for mobile devices which may not have anything more than 100 vertical pixels).[code:lkxqkgx6]letter-spacing: 8px;[/code:lkxqkgx6]
It’s a good idea to use EMs for this, otherwise your text will start looking odd in some browsers – you have EMs for size but PXs for letter spacing. In IE6 for example, if you specify PXs for letter-spacing and EM’s for font-size, and then go and increase you font-size, you’ll find that you get nice big fonts, but they’ll become more and more compressed as you increase the font-size in your browser. Plus, different fonts have different widths and EM’s are more likely to scale better on obscure fonts than PX’s.Actually, on taking a decent look at your CSS file, it looks like a big pile of poo. Where did it come from? I’m guessing it’s from some template? I’m sure that can be done much more simply than that. Those pseudo opacity thingies in the menu do look nice though. I’m certain there’s way more code in that CSS file than you need. There’s a bunch of absolute positioning in there which looks way over the top and unnecessary.
The left hand menu gets a vertical scroll bar at larger font sizes.
But the basic design looks very sophisticated <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” /> Nice job <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="” title=”Smiley” />Ryan,
Somebody’s been borrowing code <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” />[code:2wj887yd]< html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”de”‘>'[/code:2wj887yd]
That looks suspiciously like the language is set for German! I know we have a german on our team, but designing the site for him (Julian) seems a little dramatic!
I like the design, although I think it’ll be hard to integrate a team logo with it in the future. Any logo is likely to be far less formal than the current design so will likely need somewhat of a redesign. Looks very professional though <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” />Ryan,
"Azzy77":1d4au2qa wrote:I think you have your dates wrong, unless I am mistaken the trials for stampede aren’t even till may 5th, I think games are 25-26 May,[/quote:1d4au2qa]You’re right, I seem to have made a boo boo on the schedule, it’s fixed now.
"Azzy77":1d4au2qa wrote:I wonder if channel nine will film them again, they did last time steve jackson did the commentary i think[/quote:1d4au2qa]Yep they did and yep it was Steve. No idea if it’ll happen again though, hopefully they’ll tell us if they do this time as no one told me there was TV coverage last time so I didn’t get to see it <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sad.gif" alt="
” title=”Sad” /> The cost for the coverage is about $3000 I think, so there’ll need to be someone to stump up the cash for it, I heard mumblings of an anonomous donation for the last time. I do have contacts with a Christchurch company who was keen to do filming for us and most likely at a significantly cheaper rate, ~$1500 probably.Mark Dudley got us a kick ass TV camera for the DIHL B-grade finals but he’s gone now, if we could be bothered doing all the work, and someone had a Mac they didn’t mind doing the editing on (Kyle?) and we could get hold of some decent cameras like Mark did for us, we could possibly cobble something together which would be good enough to keep channel 9 happy (they’re sports coverage is pretty budget anyway). Then all we’d need to pay is for the air time which is quite cheap (~$100/hour or something like that).
Otherwise you’re stuck with my rather decrepid shaky handed, non commentated job.
Video editing sucks ass big time so I’m steering well clear of it. Particularly since I only have a PC and you really need a Mac for that type of thing.
Ryan,
It would be handy if you jot down the address of the images as they’ll have to be linked from somewhere – can’t upload photos to the forum you see.
I don’t think I can access that information after you’ve deleted the posts.
If they’re particularly annoying we can report them to their host who will ‘hopefully’ ban them.
Ryan,I intend to record the entire game and upload it to the website for either streaming or direct download. Just like the Easton Cup, but the whole game. I have a way bigger memory card now and we’ve got a crap load more disk space on our webhost so this isn’t a problem at all. Live streaming is beyond my capabilities though, not even sure where to start with that, although I’m sure it’s possible. It wouldn’t cost much to upgrade the rinks net connection to something with faster upload, so it’s definitely an option. That may put a little too much strain on our server resources though – Mike might know a little more about this as he uses the same host.
I’m only intending to use my crappy still camera at this stage though and not have any commentary on it. It’d literally be just footage taken by me standing on the side of the rink watching the game, nothing particularly spectacular.
If we can get a volunteer to do a more professional job I’m more than happy to leave the job to them <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” /> I did full footage of the DIHL B-grade finals with a professional grade camera, but Mark H and Mark D never gave me the footage so I couldn’t upload it <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sad.gif" alt="” title=”Sad” />Ryan,
"Kyle":2h34kzzk wrote:it spazzed on the plugin install on my mac os x.[/quote:2h34kzzk]Plugin? That’s weird, oh well, I’ll give it a crack.
Installing now …
EDIT: just got a message saying something about cant’t play this stream right now, try again later.
EDIT 2: the plugin works, still can’t access the stream. Is it possible it’s only available live?Ryan,
[img:1fzodfx0]http://planb.smugmug.com/photos/144764955-M.jpg[/img:1fzodfx0]
What the heck is that sposed to be demonstrating?
Kyle sent me these messages via Yahoo messenger:
[quote:3q0tz0gy]Neil is supposed to have moved that SNC game to 4:30.
I hope he’s told people.
or 4pm… anyway, he moved it, I saw him do it in the book.[/quote:3q0tz0gy]I assume Joyce has changed the time but just not told anybody about it.
Ryan,
"Chris":2n90gskr wrote:Hmm. Who schedules all this stuff? I wouldn’t even know who to ask. Kyle?[/quote:2n90gskr]All ice time is booked via Joyce Miller. I’ve PM’d Kyle about it and he’ll sort it out. DIHL will probably just get moved back 30 mins.
And 8am aint that bad. I’ve been in SIHL games scheduled for 7am, that’s harsh, particularly when they’re somewhere cold as buggery, like Alex or Naseby!
Ryan,
