imoen wrote:

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ultimateshedman wrote:

Any ideas for the homepage ? Should we have the latest news items for that day on there or on another page.....what else do you think we should have on there....should it go straight into the latest news items or have some kind of welcome to the site info first ?

I think there should definitely be a welcome to the site bit first, not sure exactly what though, so nice and helpful there!

- Latest news for the day is always fantastic.  Suggest you make it a headline, one paragraph and a link to the relevent thread, so that it doesn't become a burden. E.G. Today's headline would be: Jessica's Breadsticks!, followed by "Jessica Ren eased her way into the fourth round of the "Eddie Herr" top Junior tennis Tournament in Florida. Britain (and possibly the world's) top 12 year old has dropped only four games in her three matches so far Link to thread

Any ideas for a site banner ?

Not off the top of my head but I'll have a think about that.

I have a problem with the player profiles....there's going to be far too many for a 1 or two player profile pages and there's far too many players to create individual pages for each...any suggestions on how to get round this ?

I had the idea of setting up links entitled "male player profiles" and "female player profiles" and then those links directing to pages on blogspot.com on which I'd set up the profiles....that could get around that problem, what do you think ?

How about a small photo and very short line or so about the player saying age, town of origin, ranking/career best and maybe current/next tournament (I have no idea about websites so that may be too much work to keep up) oh and name of course! I'm thinking like the 'top players' pages on the lta site, but instead of a link to a profile page a link to their thread on here, most players have one I think and if not we can create them. Is that a feasible/good idea? Like I said I know nothing about building websites!

Agreed :- that way we keep the site as a community/messageboard rather than make it really hard to keep updated. We should also link to the player's Wikipedia page - which is a more permanent record - for the bigger names (Andy/Tim/Greg/Boggo/Josh/Alan/Martin Lee/Aucks/Jamie M/Jamie B....Anne/Elena/Amanda/Jane.......)

-- Edited by imoen at 17:58, 2006-11-27

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Who are the players we are going to do profiles for?

I think that with time we could do profiles for all the players with ranking points and for the extremely talented Juniors like Dyce and Tara Moore.

Greenleaf wrote:

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Who are the players we are going to do profiles for?

I think that with time we could do profiles for all the players with ranking points and for the extremely talented Juniors like Dyce and Tara Moore.

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I agree...as many profiles as poss would be good...I've set up pages for British men, women and junior profiles



-- Edited by ultimateshedman at 14:27, 2006-11-30

shouldn't the background be a portion of the union jack or something like that?

Bladetiger has suggested doing the site properly in html which will probably be best as it'll look more professional.

The first things is that we need to decide what pages we want on the site [britishtennis.net]:

This is my idea:

HOME
INTERVIEWS AND PRESS ARTICLES [could be called something different - basically have links and brief summaries of the latest press articles [+ interviews I do] with pics of the players]
DAVIS CUP
TALES FROM THE TOUR
RANKINGS
FORUM
PROFILES - would lead to 3 sub-pages for men, women and juniors
PHOTOS
PREDICTIONS COMPETITION
MEMBERS ARTICLES

Please let me know what you think of this idea for the pages [order won't necessarily be the one above], please post suggestions, if you think it's crap I won't be offended

If anyone has any player profiles they've done, please pm them to me, I've storing them in a file on my computer for when I upload them onto the site. So far, I've got one of Dan Cox from Greenleaf

My only comment is that you may be taking on too much if "doing it in html" means that the site has to be edited by just the one person, with others sending them content.

- If that happens, you get into all sorts of timing and organisational problems....

..e.g. if I was late in sorting out a rankings post, you'd be wasting time chasing me, and then (assuming I finish it early in the morning) the readers end up having to wait until late that evening for you to pick up my email & post the table...

Gotcha. Maybe the rankings page should just be a link to here too, to avoid the problems Rob mentions.