- Brand new design top to bottom
- Mobile optimised site
- Better use of space - Twitter now off to the side, less scrolling required
- Rewritten the entire codebase from the ground up. Quicker, less bug-ridden
- New database structure - leaner, meaner, quicker
- Browsable monthly archives
- News search via title / text
- Bigger headline images
- Comments via forum now show user avatars where possible
- Fixture list now colour codes wins / losses / draws
- Ability to look at previous seasons (back to 2009/10)
- Match Centre - shows goalscorers, starting line up / substitutions, minute by minute text updates, statistics, ground location, live streaming audio commentary. * Will also replace the livematch banner for games in-play.
- Season Stats - overall view of who played / scored / got sent off in games over the season
- You can now predict any future game, not just the next one
- Predictions will be made public after the final whistle (possibly - any objections?)
- League results will be retained across seasons (11/12 onwards)
- League Table shown on homepage / full league table will be available (until we have to start applying for the rights once we've back in the Football League, anyway....)
- New section about the club, new structure, investment info etc. etc.
- Will be integrated with new template - possibly after launch
- New forum platforms currently under consideration
As those who've seen the screenshots I've put on Twitter (and will get round to putting on here at some point) will know, the new site has one advertising banner at the top of the page. How much it'll cost to advertise on site isn't decided yet but the aim will be to at least cover my costs through advertising and affiliate revenue. Any profit made will then be reinvested into the CIC through DUFF.
* For future fixtures , depending on whether we can get this in place - we don't have this data for games that've been played already.
You have until the end of today to request anything to be considered for addition to the site before I lock the featureset tonight to finish off coding the whole thing.
Hoping to have an open beta ready to go by the end of the month, with launch before the new season kicks off.
