Scotty

couple of things to clear up

• Even though the old site was official, the money to run it always came out of my pocket with no contribution from the club other than access to people at the stadium and the odd complimentary ticket ! [not that it cost much other than domain registrations and the odd charge here and there for other stuff].
  Sportnetwork did not charge for hosting as they made revenue from the ads etc
  
  
• The idea on here is to be self financing but we will have to pay for hosting and if we go over our bandwidth we would have to pay that too. Many will have noticed the google ads at the bottom of the page and a couple of banners at the top. This is pretty much the total extent that we wish to go to with ads and hope that this will cover our costs. We may have the odd page sponsor or even a site sponsor in time and are toying with an 'affiliate' page and other stuff that you would have to physically go to a certain page to view but we will try to keep ads on the main site unobtrusive and out of users' faces so that means no popups, popunders, or 'intellitxt' ads. Even though you are required to register, we have no intention of ever making basic registration fee-based.
  
  
• Many people have said 'Well done Scotty' - Whilst I can take credit for the first 9 years of the 'old' site, there have been quite a few people who helped out over the last 3 since I moved across the pond. None moreso than Donald (CaleyD). This new site is a joint venture between us both and we figure that it took around 1500 hours development over the course of 3 months to get to this stage so any plaudits you send to me I will greatfully accept ... but please send them Donald's way too as he is equally 'to blame' for the site - PS if its broken, its his fault !!!
  

I have been heartened by most of the comments received this weekend and glad most like it. It is a little different and will take a bit of getting used to. We also had a few technical glitches that we didnt anticipate but hopefully that has eased a little. Please feel free to stick a note in the TECHNICAL SUPPORT - WEBSITE forum if you encounter difficulties.

shouldnt that be in an-udder forum :roll:

• Brahan Seer - not a great bar but an incredible view of the town
  
• Muirtown - a crying shame - did my first underage drinking in here and played pool for them for donkeys years.
  
• Columba Hotel Public bar - when it was THE place to go on a Fri/Sat
  
• The Tryst - why it was popular I will never know but it was and for some reason i enjoyed it
  
• Dillingers - Jimmy Terris' famous Jelly Beans - theres a man that should have developed fuel cells for NASA
  

to post signature - go to your profile settings and make sure it is set to 'attach signature' - otherwise you have to 'attach signature' in the options on every post

not to mention the 60k per place or whatever it is we get from finishing higher.

Top 11 was the target this season and next season perhaps we can set top 6 as the ultimate goal although I would be happy for anywhere between 6-qoth again next year !

Lets face it, the pundits are right when they say we are 'punching above our weight'. We are a small club, with a small fanbase with possibly the lowest paid players in the SPL. However, every one of those players works with his colleagues to develop team spirit and they produce the goods not only against similar size teams but also at times when it is least expected .... 'on paper' we should be relegation fodder so thank your god the game is played on grass :)

I received a private message earlier and the sender asked that it be posted. Why they couldnt post it themselves is a mystery but as there may be simple explanations to some of the issues raised that others may also be having a problem with i thought i would post it .....

CaleyJuanjo: Hi Scotty ............ regarding the "new" website, I really believe we have gone from the best in the SPL to a cliquey, user unfriendly disaster! May be teething problems - but looks a LOT worse. To be honest, the site was going down hill anyway, with so many negative comments about the club, staff and individual players that I often wondered if it really was an ICT site. Thought I should give you this feedback anyway. I'll maybe try again in a few months! I'd appreciate it if you could post this message on the forum.

Not sure how a site that was only launched 12 hours ago can already be cliquey ? especially as we invited back all users who had previously been excluded or warned and stated that everyone starts with a clean slate ?

It is true that we do require users to register to use things like messaging and the forums but it is open to all users to register. The 'groups' do not exclude anyone and are based mostly on post count. Everyone joins the everyone group and can later join the site members or internutters group. Joining different groups doesnt mean you see different forums, just that you can have a bigger signature, add bigger attachments etc.

User Unfriendly ? We tried to implement an easy 'tree' system for the menu. Is it difficult to navigate ? Our testers did not think so, nor do we .... or is it just because it is different ?

Would appreciate feedback either in here or by private message

yeah - like the Killie supporter who ranted on 'Your Call' ... but said it didnt matter when Jim asked him how many home fixtures last year !!!!! ..... well dude, you were happy to have 20 at home last year so its tough that you only get 18 this year !

However, even though the SPL try to work it out so that clubs get a decent spread over two seasons, the system is flawed and needs to be looked at - we need to go back to a situation where we play each team the same number of times at home and away and then there can be no arguments

Blackieforce is right .... because of the way the split works, some teams always end up with inequitable fixtures .... the SPL try to equal that out over two seasons i think .... because we had 20 home games last season we get 18 this season etc ..... not sure the exact formula but there is one !!!

It should hopefully be updated more frequently too as it is easier to count !!!

POY is now voted on the polls - set to appear from 5pm after a game for a period of 10 days. - look on left side of screen for the current polls.

who cares and as this has nothing to do with ICT it becomes the first moved post !

How cruel can it be .... Aberdeen score & Livi equalise .......

.... beer to Canada :D

[rainbow]SAM[/rainbow]: Can you [rainbow]figure out how to do your text like this[/rainbow] ?

or maybe you can figure out this one ? [md5]which i will be impressed if you can cos it does nothing in particular just creates a basic encrypted sentence that cant be decoded[/md5]

[offtopic] - This one should be easy enough to figure out too[/offtopic]

You didnt enable it .........

in your profile there is a setting under Profile > Your Profile > Settings > Posting that allows you to attach your signature ..... This turns on the signature check box underneath any posting box

I will be adding a few when I can, but here are the current smilies that can be used in the shoutbox (chat thing on side of most pages)

@ sign = :@:


smile = :smile:  or :-) or :)


big grin = :D or :-D or :grin: 


sad = :( or :-( or :sad:


surprised = :o or :-o


eek = 8o or 8-o or 8-0 or :eek:


confused = :s or :-s


lol = :lol:


cool = :cool: or 8) or 8-)


mad = :x or :-x or :mad:


raspberry (tongue out) = :p or :-p or :razz:


embarrassed = :$ or :-$


cry = :cry:


evil = :evil:


twisted = :twisted:		


roll eyes = :roll:


wink = :wink: or;) or;-)


exclaim = :!:


question = :? or :-?


idea = :idea:


arrow = :arrow:


neutral = :| or :-| or :neutral:


'Mr Green' = :mrgreen:


alien = :alien:


smurf 1 = :asmurf1:


smurf 2 = :asmurf2:


drunk = :ratarsed:[/code]

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