Archive for March, 2008

Forum Pictures

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Teams on Athleon have told us they’ve used their private forum for a variety of things: from actually helping clear up email clutter to just talking trash about each other, the world, or their opponents. Today we launched a new tool to do that, per your request (and a bet of flair of our own)

You can now easily upload pictures to the forum, either from your team’s album, or from your computer. You can then add captions in the pictures, going with the new trends in forum posting.

The Power of Colors

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Our calendar feature originally matched the design of our website. It looked great too, except for the fact that the Athleon Gold was very difficult to read in full calendar mode. Looks don’t do much when it kills usability. We darkened the words to dark gray and left it at that.
Now, after more requests, different events are in different colors, and it certainly brings a little more life to the calendar. Games are in red, practices in gree, tournaments in blue and meetings in purple. ‘Other’ events are still the lovely dark gray color. Hope that works for you.

New Game Results Widgets

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Upload your game results to Athleon, then copy and paste the code onto your public website. Go on Athleon, then click your record to check it out.



New Help System

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

I’ve never been a fan of FAQ’s since my question apparently is rarely frequently asked. I don’t like having to leave the page I have a question on to search through a giant FAQ section that isn’t necessarily easy to navigate. Many of you have already taken advantage of the help box on every page. Hit help, type in a question, and I’ll respond to you as soon as I possibly can.

Now, since it turns out many of you do actually frequently ask the same questions (set yourself as a parent by clicking ‘my locker’), we’ve updated the help system, on a page by page basis.

Confused about something? Click help, and most of the confusing stuff about that page is there (seems so simple doesn’t it?). But, if you’re still confused, don’t hesitate to type it into the help box, and we’ll send you an email asap.

New Stats System Live

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Check it out. Click on the stats leaderboard on the main page, your locker, or ‘manager tools’ then ‘update game stats’ to check out the new system.

Per team requests, we made the upload more traditional and logical, built up new leaderboard functionality, and made team stats ‘lockable’ in case coaches only want to have players view their own personal stats reports.

Stats now integrate correctly with your game results too.

A few things of note: You can drag and drop players from your bench to the ‘field’ to enter stats for them. If they aren’t in the field but should be, it’s because they didn’t add their position. They can do this by clicking ‘my locker’ then ‘updates picture, position, and number,’ that way, goalies don’t appear in the primary column of field stats and vice versa, but if a goalie gets hurt and a random player steps up you can move him/her into the goalie stats field.

If you’d like to see a demo shoot me an email.