New JPFPL league website

[Christian Lahti]

To all concerned:

I have been working with John Palosz on getting a proper website for the league up and running.  I have a staging copy ready for review, we are in the process of getting a domain name and hosting site registered which I believe will be www.jpfpl.org.  In the meantime the staging site is hosted on my personal server:

http://clahti.homelinux.org

Some major features:

Event Calendar:
upcoming events such as tournaments, banquet, etc. can be added to the calendar.  Current permissions are any registered user can add an event.  Do we want to restrict this to just site administrators or captains?

Forum/Discussion Groups
threaded discussion groups currently defined, do we need any more?

• Announcements - read by all, post by site admins only
• Genera Discussion - read by all, post by registered users
• Buy, Sell, Trade - read by all, post by registered users
• Captain's Corner - read and post by captains and site admins only

Polls
voting on various topics, we have no current polls defined, current permissions are registered users can add new polls and vote on existing.  Do we want to restrict this any differently?

Frequently Asked Questions
standard FAQ section, we have no FAQ entries and need to come up with some.  For example:

Q. How do I join a league team?
A. Contact the league using the Contact Us form requesting a position on a team.  Please let us know is you are willing to be a sub or alternate

Downloads
access to various forms such as the nightly score sheet, half-time drink request, etc.

League Rules and Regulations
current rule book

Participating Bars and Taverns
list of bars, addresses, phone numbers with links to google maps

Division A and Division B sections

• Teams and Captains - team listing with captain contact info.  Do we want to restrict contact info? this is currently viewable by all
• Current Standings - currently just a link to John's complicated Excel spreadsheet.  We will eventually develop an online method for captains to enter in nightly scores but this is a way's off
• Match Schedule by Team
• Match Schedule by Week

User Registration
visitors to the site can view most information but to add new content they must register.  This is a self registration module that allows people to register themselves with "authenticated" permissions.  Site admins need to promote users to captain's role or site admin role as necessary.  Are there any other roles that we need to setup?

I think that is about it, please forward me your questions, comments, additions, ideas, etc.  I need a list of team captain email addresses so I can setup their logins, for right now you can login as Kevin Weil

username: kweil
password: letmein!1

(sorry Kevin, I will change your password when we go live :))

Thanks,

/Christian


----- Original Message -----
From: "John P. Forney Pool League" <jpfpoo...@gmail.com>
To: "John P. Forney Pool League" <jp...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 9:47:13 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: View this page "HOME"



Click on http://groups.google.com/group/jpfpl/web/home - or copy &
paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't work.

[Christian Lahti]

Just the spreadsheet for now.  The way John has this setup it is pretty complicated, I will be developing an online application that will do all of this automatically but this is not a trivial exercise.  In the interest of getting the site up and running quickly we are going to use the excel route until I can fully flesh this out.

/Christian

----- Original Message -----

From: "kevin weil" <weil_...@yahoo.com>
To: "Christian Lahti" <cla...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, August 2, 2010 2:59:42 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: New JPFPL league website

looking good lol about the name  are you going to have the stats come up online too or just as a spread sheet --- On Mon, 8/2/10, Christian Lahti <cla...@gmail.com> wrote:

[renee erkson]

hello its me renee, from Homestead Lounge. There is an error on our
captains last name. It has only 1 L in it, McAlister. Not 2. Please
correct. Thank you.

[Christian Lahti]

will do :)

[Christian Lahti]

It's alive!  The new official website is now ready for public consumption, here is the URL:

http://jpfpoolleague.net

I am working with John to get current stats up but the rest of the site should be ok now.  Please test things out, we need to get people registered to the new site, I am missing email addresses for many team captains, can we get an updated list for this?

Thanks,

/Christian