Web Development For Sports Event

Apr 25 2008

Published by Ricky at 6:00 pm under Projects, Sports

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!