Well because running the footy tipping comp is nothing short of a pain in the ass, next year I will be looking at usign a 3rd party service like footytips.com.au
It makes life easier for all of us and I can scrape the results and more onto this site to make things look slight bit integrated.
Essentially I am looking to make my workload for the site a lot less and that means the off season will invlolve a switch to most likely wordpress with one of their integrated forum solutions and an over all smoother site.
After years of use I have finally realised ST is just a News blog, with a forum, and therefore I need to approach it as such and start removing the bells and whistles to make it easier.
My sincere hope is that I can find a footytipping comp that uses openID that way I can convert the site to use openID and you will only need to have an account there and login.
If this ok with everyone or do you prefer having the footy tipping in house. I mean I could spend some time writing and application that scrapes the games for each round from another site which would also mean my workload is less.
it all comes down to everyone here really
It makes life easier for all of us and I can scrape the results and more onto this site to make things look slight bit integrated.
Essentially I am looking to make my workload for the site a lot less and that means the off season will invlolve a switch to most likely wordpress with one of their integrated forum solutions and an over all smoother site.
After years of use I have finally realised ST is just a News blog, with a forum, and therefore I need to approach it as such and start removing the bells and whistles to make it easier.
My sincere hope is that I can find a footytipping comp that uses openID that way I can convert the site to use openID and you will only need to have an account there and login.
If this ok with everyone or do you prefer having the footy tipping in house. I mean I could spend some time writing and application that scrapes the games for each round from another site which would also mean my workload is less.
it all comes down to everyone here really