[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by JonDuke

We had a thread last year that touched upon the need for an updated CPHL website. I've started to tackle that, but need help.

Here's a teaser of what I have so far...

Spoiler!

It's far from done, but that's the rough, basic shell and layout of the menu portion of the home page.

Questions:

- Do we even want a new logo?? The one I used in the above example was made last year out of boredom. If anyone wants to whip up something else, I'm be more than happy to use theirs too, or we can stick to what we currently have now.

- What would you like to see on the website? I have about 16 pages created so far, with many more to come, and there's some I omitted, like the History (not the bio part), Transactions and Articles pages. Only because they didn't seem to be updated recently, but I could add them if we'll use them. I'd love input here on what changes you all would like to see though. Items/pages to add or trash, etc.

- I'd love help in updating the text found in parts of the existing website, like the History and Rules sections. Those are both pretty outdated, and all I need is the updated text and can throw it into the new page.

- Although I'm a graphics/Photoshop junkie, I could use some help there too. The main header (if we use that logo) would need some special touches to make the 1400x400 pic nice and funky. I'm looking at you, Doug. Your graphic skills are far superior than mine, and I love the Canes content (Ex 1, Ex 2, Ex 3) you've created on here. There's other stuff we'll need, like new team page headers, icons, etc, so if anyone else is willing to lend a hand, I'm sure I'll eventually take you up on it.

- I'm using WordPress/WHM/cPanel to create this. This is all very new to me. Is there anything wrong with that or potential future problems that we'd run into by using WordPress?

- Coding Help Needed. This is the big one.
2 weeks ago, I knew absolutely nothing about customizing WordPress or creating websites. I've immersed myself in multiple YouTube videos and online HTML/WordPress tutorials to get what is done so far. (I'm looking to get into the web design/customization biz anyway) That stuff wasn't extremely complicated. This is the 4th website I've worked on but, by far, the most time consuming. I have ZERO knowledge or experience with coding though. There's quite a few pages that I'm guessing will require that, so if anyone is savvy in the field, I'd love your help there. Especially with trading/releasing players, waive/bring up player, and all those options.

The individual roster pages will be the most time consuming part of this, and I plan on linking the new sites pages to the existing ones. They aren't really that terrible anyway, imo, and it's the home page/layout that needs the primary attention. A lot of the pages (player and team stats, etc) is just linking to STHS generated URLs (I think?), which seems super easy.

Again, this is still very, very far away, but I wanted to get a discussion going on what you all would like to see.

Let the spitballing begin! Honest feedback welcome.

Thanks for starting a discussion.
If we are going to develop a new site, someone really needs to take the ball and run with it - inclusive of coordinating all the content and requirements. I don't have the bandwidth for it, but if there is a team that wants to try and run with this, I support it.

The key aspects from my POV are:
- The site has to work with the existing functionality and admin tasks that we have built out, including all the league rules that are applied to that
- We can build out a lot of CMS components for news and articles but the key is populating that stuff. If the content is not going to be maintained or generated then there is no point to it. You highlight this when it comes to the content for the history section. We don't really have any content to put there, so someone would have to own developing and maintaining it going forward
- We essentially use the forum as the basis for any discussion, which I think makes the most sense.

I think it would be great to get input from the GMs on how important they think the site is. I fully admit that I have put way more energy into the rules and game aspects to the league - but if folks want a richer web site as part of this league - then we can find a path to get that.

However, if folks just want to focus on the game, that the site probably does the job (though the rules section does need to be updated).

Certainly worth discussing.