British tennis frontpage for this site

Sheddie · administrator

RE: British tennis frontpage for this site

RobC · All-time great

hate to say it, but it's very cluttered.

Things to change:

1) make it a table, so that the event name is in one column and the players playing in another

2) put the event titles in a different font/colour/size/boldness....

RedCabbage · Club Coach

I don't know whether I'll be able to type it here, but a standard link looks like:

<a href="http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=61841&p=3&topicID=9260524">ATP Doha Tournament</a>

RedCabbage · Club Coach

RobC wrote:

hate to say it, but it's very cluttered.

Things to change:

1) make it a table, so that the event name is in one column and the players playing in another

2) put the event titles in a different font/colour/size/boldness....

I agree with point 1 to an extent. But I would make it a table without trying to make it look like a table. I've never been much of a fan of web pages looking like spreadsheets :)

Point 2 - good idea. I agree.

Sheddie · administrator

RobC wrote:

hate to say it, but it's very cluttered.

Things to change:

1) make it a table, so that the event name is in one column and the players playing in another

2) put the event titles in a different font/colour/size/boldness....

OK, thanks for the feedback, I'll have a go at trying to sort that.

RedCabbage thanks for that html code, I'll see if that works, do you mean href at the beginning ?

What do you mean by making it a table without trying to make it look like a table

RobC · All-time great

ultimateshedman wrote:

RobC wrote:

hate to say it, but it's very cluttered.

Things to change:

1) make it a table, so that the event name is in one column and the players playing in another

2) put the event titles in a different font/colour/size/boldness....

OK, thanks for the feedback, I'll have a go at trying to sort that.

RedCabbage thanks for that html code, I'll see if that works, do you mean href at the beginning ?

What do you mean by making it a table without trying to make it look like a table

- mainly, I think, not to put obvious lines in there: do it with shading or just with white space.

I'd guess redcabbage finds steveg's tables a bit too basic: http://stevegtennis.com/atpres.htm

You realise that we're going to have 100 different views on what the best style is, don't you!

RedCabbage · Club Coach

Basically...no borders! But that's purely my opinion. I'm sure it would be easier to make a table readable when there's borders.

I do mean "href". Not sure what it means. Basically the HTML tag is an <a> (I think it stands for "anchor") and the "href" is an attribute of that <a> - i.e. where you go when you click on it. You can include other attributes like "target" which can be used to open the page in a new window for example. You can define also the font, colour, size etc within the <a>.

e.g. <a href="http://www.google.com" target="#">Google in a new window</a>

Sheddie · administrator

Lol, I agree we're going to have a lot of different views on this !!

I actually like steveg's tables, I'll try and create something like that, it looks pretty good. The colouring is the important part I think, I'll probably copy the colour scheme

RedCabbage · Club Coach

ultimateshedman wrote:

Lol, I agree we're going to have a lot of different views on this !!

I actually like steveg's tables, I'll try and create something like that, it looks pretty good. The colouring is the important part I think, I'll probably copy the colour scheme

:) I think trying to design a website by commitee might be asking for trouble! I think you're doing the right thing by just designing it yourself and asking for opinions. It's up to you which opinions you go with.

Sheddie · administrator

New schedules page:

http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/2007%20schedules.html

Rochelle · Lower Club Player

thats really helpfull, thanks

RobC · All-time great

That certainly looks better.

I suggest you get the main sections sorted out in terms of what you wnat to put up there, then ask Drew's brother to spend a couple of hours with the look and feel - make sure you have a standard font, standard colours etc...

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

I like the second one (can't see the first presumably because you've taken it down).

Salmon · Tennis legend

Looks good! I'm loving it.

I have a few comments:

It has a typo - You have "ABS Classic, Auckland Tier 1V" and not "ABS Classic, Auckland Tier IV".

By the way, I am a terrible stickler for consistency in naming.
Shouldn't we have tournament names in one way only - not both sponsor name and place names.

For example, we have one venue "ATP Auckland" and one sponsor name "ABS Classic, Auckland Tier IV".
Shouldn't we go for either 1) Venue names "ATP Auckland" and "WTA Auckland tier IV"

or

2)Sponsor names "Heineken Open" and "ABS Classic, Auckland Tier IV".

Sorry for being a pedant, but I think that websites should always be consistent. Feel free to ignore me.

This schedule looks great in the sense that the blue writing on a yellow background creates a fine contrast without hurting our eyes. It's very important that you don't have to try hard to read a website. I guess that this page really suits that criterion.

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 10:23, 2006-12-15

RobC · All-time great

Good points, Arka. Can I suggest that we just copy exactly how steveg names his events: makes it easy for whoever is doing the updating: the job then becones trawling the acceptance lists, rather than worrying about names & formats.