The History Man
Active member
From time to time there are proposals on NSC by various people for an Albion statistical website. Brighton & Hove Albion Collectors' and Historians' Society, which has all the match statistics - including line-ups - required, has also had ambitions for several years to provide such a website, and has owned the domain name www.AlbionHistory.org.uk for some time.
So it's about time I pulled my finger out and tried to get such a site up and running - but I don't have the time to attempt the necessary programming myself, I'm afraid.
With this in mind, I am inviting any website designers who might be interested to PM me. But before you all rush, please read the design brief I have prepared here.
It's probably not very clear or well written, but the gist is a website that will be a "one-stop shop" for all Albion historical enquiries - by underlaying a Wikipedia-style encyclopaedia (but with only authorised contributors) with a statistical database. It strikes me that this might be quite difficult or involved, so it will take someone with experience or someone with knowledge looking to extend their experience.
Note that the task for the designer is not to generate or even upload content, but to provide the template and means to allow authorised contributors to do so. We have plenty of content already: the database, the Albion A-Z and Seagulls books, numerous articles from our BHACHS newsletters, etc, etc.
Note, too, that there's not a huge amount of money to pay a salary!
It may be that there are better solutions than the one I have described, so I'm open to helpful suggestions as well regarding the design brief. The main part is the encyclopaedia-cum-database; other parts, like the on-line quiz, can wait. I envisage a timescale of around a year for completion.
It will be committing but, I hope, rewarding. But I would emphasise the need for discipline - sticking to the brief, putting design solutions onto paper, documenting the software, backing up software - in case, for whatever reason, the appointed designer is unable to see the project through to the end. In any case I hope this website will continue for many years to come, so proper documentation is essential for future maintenance.
If you are interested in this challenging but exciting and rewarding project then please PM me with your thoughts on the design, your relative experience, and any other information you think is relevant.
Thanks for reading this.
Tim Carder
Chairman, Brighton & Hove Albion Collectors' and Historians' Society
So it's about time I pulled my finger out and tried to get such a site up and running - but I don't have the time to attempt the necessary programming myself, I'm afraid.
With this in mind, I am inviting any website designers who might be interested to PM me. But before you all rush, please read the design brief I have prepared here.
It's probably not very clear or well written, but the gist is a website that will be a "one-stop shop" for all Albion historical enquiries - by underlaying a Wikipedia-style encyclopaedia (but with only authorised contributors) with a statistical database. It strikes me that this might be quite difficult or involved, so it will take someone with experience or someone with knowledge looking to extend their experience.
Note that the task for the designer is not to generate or even upload content, but to provide the template and means to allow authorised contributors to do so. We have plenty of content already: the database, the Albion A-Z and Seagulls books, numerous articles from our BHACHS newsletters, etc, etc.
Note, too, that there's not a huge amount of money to pay a salary!
It may be that there are better solutions than the one I have described, so I'm open to helpful suggestions as well regarding the design brief. The main part is the encyclopaedia-cum-database; other parts, like the on-line quiz, can wait. I envisage a timescale of around a year for completion.
It will be committing but, I hope, rewarding. But I would emphasise the need for discipline - sticking to the brief, putting design solutions onto paper, documenting the software, backing up software - in case, for whatever reason, the appointed designer is unable to see the project through to the end. In any case I hope this website will continue for many years to come, so proper documentation is essential for future maintenance.
If you are interested in this challenging but exciting and rewarding project then please PM me with your thoughts on the design, your relative experience, and any other information you think is relevant.
Thanks for reading this.
Tim Carder
Chairman, Brighton & Hove Albion Collectors' and Historians' Society