FOFC Front Page Redesigned.
 

http://www.sportplanet.com/fof

In the next few days, www.frontofficefootballcentral.com can be used as well. KUDOS to Blackadar for undertaking the redesign. I'll be adding some additional content as well, and Blacky is going to be writing/coordinating some regular features. We'd LOVE to hear your feedback. Thanks!

--Ben

Very nicely done.

You should probably add TPB and TDCB to the basketball sim list...

As I mentionned in the first non-official thread :p, it looks great! Nice work!

One comment though, home of the Ice Weasels??? :confused:

And no love for the Mogul series?

Our trout feed on a steady diet of ice weasels, apparently.

Yeah, I thought the ice weasels were replaced by first the colossal squid and then the rectal trout.

Ah well...

A beautiful October 2000 reference.

Added TDCB and TPB.

That was quick... :)

Actually I noticed it before I saw your post. :)

"Sometimes at night, the ice weasels come."--Jason Tobias IV

Unfortunately, I completely forget about them. I miss dem monkeys. :(

Just a couple of things:

1. Links on the front page are at Ben's (or mine, if he lets me) discretion. So will be the games listed on the "other favorites" page. We aren't playing favorites so much as giving our opinions on "best of breed". For what it's worth.

2. It's still a work in progress. The "Ice Weasels" thing was just something funny for old timers. It's more of a placeholder that can change from page to page. If we get some great QOTM material, we may link that to replace the Ice Weasels.

What is the first HFL that is listed? The link to it doesn't work...

Good catch, Jeeber. That should have been removed. It's the Historic Football League, which is listed below.

Fixed.

Very nice guys. I especially like the stadium pics when you go to another screen besides the home screen. Very cool.

Oh the horror. Teasing me by having a picture of the Saints outdoor stadium that will never be built.

Well done, fellas.

All credit goes to Blacky. I just edit text.

yup, thats nice. although you can't really say that no favorites are played when the IHOF link is at the top of the MP leagues list....elitist bastards... :D

When did we say that no favorites are played? :p

a couple comments:

1) love the look and layout, especially the screenshots (although I'd center them over the text)
2) FOF4 was not distributed by EA Sports
3) the Title Tag for the FOF4 page indicates "FOF1"
4) the html for some of the stadium pics is not only screwed up, it tells me Blackie's real name (of course, I already knew this...)
5) at work, I am in 800x600 layout, and the entire right third of the screen is gone. if you guys are serious about this site being an often used text sim portal (and I hope you are), you might want to scale the layouts to different resolutions. Looks good in both IE and Firefox, btw.
6) especially since Jim uses a similar layout and color scheme for his site, I think I'd probably have the link to his site open up in a different window to make it clear the two aren't part of the same site.

there's more "negatives" than positives on this list, but, truly I love the site - it adds a great deal of legitimacy to this community.

Thanks to Ben for letting me help. This is still his site - I'm just glad I could lend a hand.

Also, thanks for the suggestions. To be perfectly frank, this is my *ahem* 1st ever web page design. I added the content on the old site, but that wasn't my design. I was going to use a template, but I finally just decided to build it myself. So I'm fairly happy given that I created it from scratch and I'd never done one before.

I was a *very* happy camper when I realized I had the old Sideline banner still on my old 'puter. I thought that might have been lost forever.

I may be overstepping my bounds here, but if you want to add some content or be a regular writer on the front page, you probably should give Ben a shout. We'd like to have more going on than just the forums.

I addressed 1, 2 and 3 on DD's list.

very nice work for your 1st attempt.
just the fact that there's no scrolling text or flashing gifs is a huge step over most first-timers!

:)

i think that all the links should open up into a new page, not just Jim's. That's just my personal preference of course, but i hate when links open in the same page and i've got to click back all the time

I probably should have done that. I'm just so used to FireFox - I right click the link and it opens in a new tab - that it didn't occur to me to open all external links in a new window.

btw, to make a link open in a new page, you just need to add target="_BLANK" to your href tag.

for example
a href="http://www.solecismic.com/index.php" target="_BLANK"

my favorite firefox tip:
if you have a scroll mouse, you can click a link with your scroll wheel to open in a new tab too.

As another option, you can include this code taken from Grey Dog in the head section of the code(I don't think the webmaster will mind ;) ).

This works for Grey Dog, but if you decide to use it, I would make sure to give the links a check manually. If there is a problem, you can manually set the link like Draft Dodger suggested.

where do I find the little check mark thingy on my keyboard?

Very nice. It was time for a new look and it comes nicely after three weeks of downtime.

Argg, the forum is applying the code for me. Hang on, I will give you a link to a text file with the code.

Here you go http://www.greydogsoftware.com/mptest/new_window.txt

What about the newly released Football Manager series? With Marc, here, and his support, I think it would be nice.

Very nice. Thanks for some helpful information on other sports simulations. What is my best bet for a Miami Heat w/ Shaq roster?

here by Blackadar.....




but i think he was talking more about other Text sims and not everything else. But i just wanted to be a jealous smartass.... :D

To the best of my knowledge, the Ice Weasels now reside in Indianapolis.

I'd like to see a link to Hattrick, but I won't hold my breath. :)

speaking of Ice Weasels, what ever happend to that wacky Tobias?

This is the big deal? A fucking new frontpage? I thought you guys were going to be announcing Jim's new game! :mad:


























:p

well done

Looks very nice. Can I get the FCFL linked in the multiplayer leagues section (the link is in my sig)?

Thanks!

No links for wrestling sims? What is an idiot to do?

Bump. Un-stick.

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." ~ Matt Groening

Jason Tobias has been taking credit for that quote for like 5 years without a peep.

SOLID WORK, HB

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