We now have a YouTube Channel

29 Jan 2012 09:35:00 Z

If you would like to check out some of the match videos so far you can head to YouTube and see some of the past couple. We have a channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/Panhandle...

If you would like to upload a video or have it edited with the intro and credits feel free to contact me and I can either send the files to you or you can send the video my way and I can do the rest.
 

New Site!

29 Jan 2012 09:35:00 Z

Jeff (Joe Snuffie) and I have been working on the coming site design this past couple of weeks and have a skeleton in place. There are several more pages to be built and added but so far it is functional. The brand was made by Jeff and personally I think it is awesome! He researched a lot of real brands as well as their development and usage and made one that followed the same ideas that they use. The header for the page is not quite finished. It will have a few more elements added to it to round it out. We are going to stage a few more photos for the background images and have them change on each page refresh randomly. We will not have to worry about copyright of any images as they are all developed in house.

Current Features:

Main page right now uses the NRA RSS feed. I am waiting on contact back from SASS to use their RSS feed for the front page. Currently they don't have an RSS capable news feed that we can use. With the main page rotating content we are more likely to keep search engines 'interested' in the site to help our rankings with new content listings.

Schedule has a recurring series of events for the monthly matches. Users can subscribe to the event to get an automated notice about the event a preset number of days before it occurs.

Saloon is a simple forum system to be able to communicate among site members. Users have to register on the site to get access to posting functions. We are still getting the forum categories ironed out. We want to keep it simple though as the level of users is going to be fairly low (< 100 users on the site).

Trading Post is a classifieds system allowing people to post their stuff. It automatically manages the items so an item can only be shows for a certain amount of days before it will be automatically removed from the system. This will keep the level of stuff sitting on the pages down when they are expired or sold. We can define different levels of access based on the users membership level, so a PCC member could post more items or have them expire less often. There is no need for a site administrator to manage items unless an item needs to be removed due to terms of use violations.

Gallery is just that. Right now we are digging through what photos we have to fill in the last few matches worth of photos. If anyone has any to add they can contact me and send them my way and we can get them posted. We are working on other categories of galleries other than just matches. If you have some category suggestions please let me know.

To Do:

Posse page - have a personal page for each member (if they want it) showing sass number, experience, matches participated in, guns they use, style the shoot, and a short bio that they can write up. Also can include pictures of themselves. It is going to be database driven and each member can set their own page up or we can set one up for them. If they set their own up then they will be able to change it later, if we set it up then they won't have direct access to it.

Telegraph will be a basic contact page giving the same info at the bottom of each page plus a contact form that will email the cattle co contact email.

Newsletter to send out automated mailing list messages to members and such about matches coming up and for scoring after a match. It will automate a good portion of the mailing by managing the mail lists for us.

Monthly Match Detail and Match Results pages to detail what, when, where a match is held then a results for each match held. Going to drive it with a database so that when a match score sheet is posted it will automate the newsletter that is sent out with the results without having to do it manually.

Let me know what other elements we can work on or add. If you have some example sites with features you like please send them my way and we can evaluate them for ideas.