Disclaimer: This blog post is on the subject of the hockey website www.sheffieldhockey.com and has nothing to do with my 3D graphics project. For more info on that, click the "dissertation" tag on the right.

Right, this week hasn't gone so well so far. I've got far too much work and nothing seems to be going my way. Yesterday I lost the vote to get me elected for the hockey club's secretary position to a fresher who didn't really want it anyway. Very pissed off at him. This also means that I won't be on committee next year (as I don't intend to keep up my captaincy and the job of webmaster was given to a 6th teamer so that I could get secretary). So, in an act of foolhardy defiance, I announce the features for the next version of the hockey website.

Mission Statement:
To provide the members of the hockey club with an online portal for all their hockey related needs. At the moment it's a glorified message board, the next version will be a community (just thought, that'd be a cool dev codename). I want people to use it for all their activities and spend more time on the website. So, I want to open up everyone's profiles, give people so much more information about people in the club. Lots more comedy needed and little competitions off the main website. Everyone will WANT to visit the website.

Features:
The usual - events, news, matches, squads, pictures, newsletters, email sending
The new - Integrate PHPBB into it, merge their users data with ours and create almost a double profile, controllable from within the website. Message centers will have squad data in it too as well as PMs
More user data, squeeze every last ounce out of the website space.
Games - Fantasy Hockey Online, using the data from the match reports create an automatic fantasy hockey system
Re-work the CSS, give the user more control over the way they view the page

This work will take all summer in my spare time but the groundwork has been done in january. Integrating PHPBB will be the hardest part but I'm confident that it can be done.

Fat chance that anyone will read this so it'll be my little secret until the next committee meeting. yay!

Steve
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