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Derry / Derry GAA website revamp - feedback welcome
April 05, 2011, 03:24:36 PM
I've started a new thread for this as I don't want to clog up the main thread

Hi folks our web team a currently undertaking a revamp of our county website.
We are very much aware that our online sources play an ever increasing role as source of people's information regarding GAA activity in our county.  As you may be aware we have embarked on a couple of new undertakings this year such as our YouTube interview channel and the live twitter feed from intercounty games.
At the same time the guys at the Derry web team have been working very hard at revamping the county website and have completed the first phase of a new pilot site which can be viewed at the following link.
http://mercury.servers.rbl-mer.misp.co.uk/~derrygaa/

This is a preliminary version of the site which is designed to give you an idea of the look, feel and functionality, of the new site. All work done so far has been carried out on a voluntary basis by some very dedicated individuals.
We would very much welcome ideas from individuals and clubs as to the content and features they'd like to see going forward.

The key features of this development so far are -

  • A clear format for presenting news items to people in categorised form
    A easy to use framework underpinning the site giving anyone with basic IT skills (e.g. microsoft word) the ability to update the site. Hopefully this makes it less technical for people and will increase participation from an admin or contributor point of view.
    An embedded twitter feed publishing live updates from matches to the front page of the site
    An embedded club locator giving people the ability to find a route map and driving directions to any pitch in the county from anywhere else
    An embedded results and fixtures service hooked up to sportsmanager (as used by CCCC etc to publish fixtures and results)


You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that many of our most IT savvy Gaels frequent this site, therefore you are the perfect focus group for feedback.
Also we'd would very much welcome input and ideas from clubs and would call for volunteers from around the county interested in helping to keep this news service up to date to get in touch with us. If you could somehow communicate this information to individuals who would be keen to play a part in this it would be greatly appreciated.
Again, I would ask you to remember that we don't have some high-powered web company with a team of minions working on this, it's all being done by a couple of lads who are working very hard for absolutely no financial gain. Accordingly I'd ask that any criticism be constructive.


Thanks Chris

Oh and before you ask there won't be a guestbook, there's ample room on platform's like this for people to get things off their chest, and I honestly don't think it would be very constructive.