Ricky’s Online Business Blog

Recently I was given the privilege to develop a web site for a sports carnival event in which I am an organizing committee member. It is a yearly event where teams compete in various sports, carnival stalls to provide food, games and fun, and many other goodies. I had to burn my midnight oil to finish it in just a few days!

Here is a technical summary of the web site:

• It is a combination of blog and web application.
• The blog allows for online collaboration by several authors.
• The web application allows online registration for sport teams and carnival stalls.
• SMS is used to send automated acknowledgment and reminders to members.
• There is a hidden panel for administrator to glean information and retrieve summary.
• The whole web site was developed using WordPress, PHP and MySQL.

Among other things experienced include:

• This is the first time where registration for the sports event is done by means of Internet only.
• A blog site is different from a conventional hierarchical web site, not only technically and but in concept as well. A blog requires us to think differently on how a web site works and how to use it.
• Blog is superb for online collaboration by many authors at the same time. This is moving from the old kind of working where one designer does all the updates.
• Blog is almost instantly indexed and updated in Google!

Next year the web site is going to be reused. In addition, we are going to have online payment as well!