Progress has been steady over the past two weeks. We had numerous problems obtaining the software we wanted so this took us slightly off schedule. However we have probably completed about 40% of the website's pages, including the News, GISC and Contact sections...
We have installed an RSS feed in the News page, which comes from Gillsconnect.com, a supporters website with an excellent reputation. This basically means that we are able to offer both Supporters Club news and that of the football club.
If any of you are unsure of how to install RSS feed check out:
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_subscribe_to_an_rss_feed
We have chosen the colour scheme, a theme for a page and used a toolbar down the side of the page to allow easier navigation.
Apart from that nothing too spectacular though, so roll on next week.
Monday, 25 February 2008
Monday, 11 February 2008
Week Three
The first three weeks have seen me and my partner extensively plan our website as opposed to jumping straight in. We have produced a detailed page by page plan which has come about after analysing websites of other supporters clubs and the features that we deemed necessary to add in our site.
These include:
- RSS Feed for news/blog page
- A personalised Google Search Bar
- A poll
- Message Board
- Posting the club’s newsletter online
- Getting the site’s users to blog on the site
- Setting up a Google Checkout function, allowing the club’s members to renew/join online.
- Installing Google Maps
- Interviews/podcasts/vodcasts on media page
We are literally going for a complete overhaul of the website and I will keep you updated with the progress, as we begin its development.
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
A different focus...
Now that I have begun phase two of my Web Design Course at University in which you guessed it, I am designing a website, I have decided to opt for a different approach to this blog. Whilst I will continue to post work of my own and other other journalists on the Facebook phonomenom, I would like to use this as a place where i not only promote my website, but give weekly updates on its progress.
The site's url is: http://www.gillsisc.co.uk/
The site's url is: http://www.gillsisc.co.uk/
Monday, 4 February 2008
Facebook 'sees decline in users'
Social networking site Facebook has seen its first drop in UK users in January, new industry data indicates.
Users fell 5% to 8.5 million in January from 8.9 million in December, according to data from Nielsen Online.
This was the first drop in user numbers since July 2006 when Nielsen began compiling data on the site.
Nic Howell, deputy editor of industry magazine New Media Age, said the site was no longer as popular among its core audience of young people.
"Social networking is as much about who isn't on the site as who is - when Tory MPs and major corporations start profiles on Facebook, its brand is devalued, driving its core user base into the arms of newer and more credible alternatives," he said.
Facebook, along with its main rivals Bebo and MySpace, lets users set up personal web pages and communicate with each other.
Alex Burmaster, European internet analyst at Nielsen Online, said that it was inevitable that the site's early growth rates could not be sustained and user numbers were likely to plateau.
Nielsen's figures showed that there are 712% more Facebook users than a year ago.
"Just as one swallow doesn't make a summer, so one month of falling audiences doesn't spell the decline of Facebook or social networking," Mr Burmaster said.
"However, real growth potential lies in the niche networks - those based on a particular lifestyle or interest, such as travel, music, wealth or business," he added.
The data showed that MySpace users had fallen by 5% in January, while Bebo's audience had fallen 2%.
Less popular social networking sites such as Windows Live Space, BBC Communities and Friends Reunited saw a rise in users in January, Mr Burmaster said.
Users fell 5% to 8.5 million in January from 8.9 million in December, according to data from Nielsen Online.
This was the first drop in user numbers since July 2006 when Nielsen began compiling data on the site.
Nic Howell, deputy editor of industry magazine New Media Age, said the site was no longer as popular among its core audience of young people.
"Social networking is as much about who isn't on the site as who is - when Tory MPs and major corporations start profiles on Facebook, its brand is devalued, driving its core user base into the arms of newer and more credible alternatives," he said.
Facebook, along with its main rivals Bebo and MySpace, lets users set up personal web pages and communicate with each other.
Alex Burmaster, European internet analyst at Nielsen Online, said that it was inevitable that the site's early growth rates could not be sustained and user numbers were likely to plateau.
Nielsen's figures showed that there are 712% more Facebook users than a year ago.
"Just as one swallow doesn't make a summer, so one month of falling audiences doesn't spell the decline of Facebook or social networking," Mr Burmaster said.
"However, real growth potential lies in the niche networks - those based on a particular lifestyle or interest, such as travel, music, wealth or business," he added.
The data showed that MySpace users had fallen by 5% in January, while Bebo's audience had fallen 2%.
Less popular social networking sites such as Windows Live Space, BBC Communities and Friends Reunited saw a rise in users in January, Mr Burmaster said.
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