I'm back!.. where did 2009 go? :(

Anyway, I have deployed some major code changes... if you find any bugs let me know.

Taking a break. :) Cya next year.

I've updated the URLs for games, just to make things a bit more consistent. So instead of http://(domain)/(league)/(game).html, games will now be found at http://(domain)/(league)/games/(game).html. This is consistent with the admin area, but I'm also planning on adding other areas, like account or profile or something like that.

I've also set up some 301 redirections so that google doesn't get confused.

I'm not 100% happy with calling everything a game. Is footy tipping a game?.. I can't think of any other options for now anyway.

Back to my old habits, not many updates over the last month. I've been working on admin areas so you won't really notice any front end changes. I've been cleaning a lot of code, trying to improve my code, reusing as much as I can.

Here are the links to Reactive League and FYF League again.. I just wanted to bump those up the page a bit.

Also, finally Google seem to have crawled my gallery, so I'm not getting those dodgy referrals any more. That means I'm getting no referrals... awesome. :)

You should be able to add a comment to a result now (only if you're logged in). It's not pretty, just like the rest of the site, but it's working. I've also added results pages for each game, you can see those from your league home page.

I'm getting a few interesting keyword searches appearing in analytics. Someone had spammed one of my photos with a heap of dodgy links. Judging by the keywords, I think that whoever is doing the searching will be very disappointed with the results. :) Hopefully google indexes the site again soon so that I stop getting this traffic.

Here is my top landing page according to google analytics... pretty boring really. :D

Just a quick update, I have been working on the site, mostly admin stuff. There will be a redesign at some stage, one of the guys I work with has been helping me with some wireframes. Also, I've just gotta get a few more pages done and I might allow the creation of leagues! Some people say it will never happen, but we'll see.

Google Analytics is going well, I think it's pretty much only me looking at the site :). But there has been some visits from Norway, Iraq and Ghana. So there you go... it's interesting stuff.

Update your bookmarks!.. I've finally decided to get rid of the old ASP version of the site. So now whether you visit faceyoursfears.net or faceyoursfears.com, you will get redirected to the ASP.NET version at www.faceyoursfears.com.

I've also decided to use Google Analytics instead of Livestats. I'll see how that works out. They look live they've got pretty good stats... nice flash graphs and lots of information. Something weird though, I was looking at this site on Friday with an iPhone, and it hasn't appeared in analytics. Not sure what the deal is there.

Well I guess that's it, I'll be back in another 6 months with another update. :)

Alex

It's back.

Reactive league
faceyoursfears

Cheers

No Updates ;)

Cya, Alex

Progress has been slow over the last couple of weeks but I've been working on a few forms and results pages. Don't know if anyone noticed but this web site has been down for a while. My fault for working on back end stuff and not checking the home page. :D

I am going away in a weeks time so there probably won't be any updates but keep and eye on my photo gallery.

Alex

It’s been a while since the last update so I thought I should post something. The main news is I have been trying and failing to get a http handler working and it’s frustrating me, so I have taken a break from it for a while (you can see how it takes me so long to get anything done on FYF).

Other than that I had a quick go and a new ranking system. There have been some ongoing complaints about the current ranking system from one of the leagues who say that the number one player could stay in that position indefinitely without playing another game. There are a few ways to solve this, by adding a challenge system or dropping the player down the ladder if they fail to play a game in a certain time frame, but I have decided to try a new points-based system which rewards a player for recent wins. I was quite happy with the results although there are still a couple of negative aspects, as there are with the current system. I may post my results soon for comparison to the current ranking system.

So there you have it, there is progress being made even if it is painfully slow. I will be back with more updates soon (hopefully). :D

Alex

Well I've got the photo gallery finished in .NET. I thought this would be a good place to start as it's nice and easy to code. I came across a few interesting problems along the way, the most interesting being the Image control adding a style="border-width:0px" tag to an image when I didn't want it to. I tried and tried to remove this attribute but couldn't figure it out. In the end I discovered the HtmlImage control which didn't add the offending tag.

I plan on adding thumbnails for each of the categories so that you don't have to cycle through each photo if you don't want to, but that is a bit further down my list of things to do. Some descriptions for photos also wouldn't go astray but writing has never been my strong point so I think I will continue to put that off. :)

Alex