Nick's Interactive Design Blog

Rationale

I feel that my website meets the requirements of the New Zealand Inline Hockey community group by being a way to connect and inform each other of happenings of the sport and related articles. Through discussion of my project with many Inline Hockey players from all over New Zealand at a recent tournament I found that players wanted a way to communicate and be able to find out what sessions and trainings are going on in other areas as inline hockey players usually travel all over new Zealand and usually travel home often if living in other areas. I took this request then studied and developed the current NZIHA website which is a simple informative website with no community and implemented a community pin board and scrimmage board which allows users to post important notifications and posts on a wall and are able to follow ones they have interested or are needed to follow for information made by other users also can post up training sessions, one-off games or small regional leagues on the scrimmage board.my website also has all the information users would expect from my type website such as News, Events, Standings and club contact details. My website makes room for users to celebrate successes of others and of the sport bringing the community closer together.

Finished Website

Completed all pages, links and styles

External Links Used

Rosters.PDF
Downloaded from http://www.inlinehockeynz.org.nz/

Tinsel Town For Sporty Star

http://fairfaxmedia.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=SHN6ZPNR6K73&issue=18232013031100000000001001&article=6802d2cf-7ad5-4891-aaf3-ef644c7151bf

Hockey Rep Times Two

http://fairfaxmedia.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=92306UAVO1P4&issue=17532013031200000000001001&article=e371ee96-8221-40b8-82ed-1da3fa02c467

International Call Up

http://fairfaxmedia.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=PDZVL1HZYQ97&issue=18302013032600000000001001&article=ad84e887-a697-42d6-b968-eb62dc02a3ff

SABRES INLINE HOCKEY CLUB

http://www.sabres.co.nz/

Creating the community

Started of creating a flow chart to define the paths and where everything will link too and work out.

Green=pages

Yellow=Action/Click

Community Home

Screen shot showing the profile bar, community nav bar, following and attending posts.

Community Pinboard

Screenshot showing the pinboard feed, icons and page setup.

Scrimmage board

Edit Profile / Registration

Edit Profile and Registrations used similar fields for the page just that some use the disabled feature in the edit page.

New Post

Screenshot showing new post page with title field, to field which would be used to send to individuals, groups, teams and all.

Standings & Events pages complete

Standings

Simple hierarchy used in the placements of each team.

Events

events page listing major events of the NZIHA

and a preview photo of the official NZIHA National Champs (poster not designed by me)

Club Page

Draft Maps

Example 1

wanted to try out a way that when you rollover with the mouse the map would light up but due to div diffucultys thsi was not possible due tho the lower region and southern region are too close together.

Example 2

tested a way if they were permanently on but looked to bright and thought it disrupted the aesthetic of the site.

Example 3

idea of rolling over the island and the text appearing but had problems with the java scripting would not load the preset images for some weird reason and only loaded "Northern"

Resolving solutions within Dreamweaver and layout of buttons.