Free Teams Web Log

In case you didn’t notice, I have updated the look and feel of the home page area for Free Teams. This is the second in a series of updates to Free Teams. The first was an updated front page feed which includes listing new photo albums as well as your news stories on the front page of your team’s website (if you have those features enabled). It will include any newly created photo albums along with your news stories, and will display a few random images from the album. We will be adding a few more items to the front page feed as well, such as game updates or changes, roster updates, etc.

In the meantime, next up in development is our user management and forums system. These are fairly close to completion, and when I can find some extra minutes here and there between my regular jobs, I will be finishing them up and releasing them into the wild. Upon your approval, users will be able to to join your team as a player, parent, coach and alumni to name a few of the relationships. From there, you can set permissions and allow certain groups to view or post to your message boards, which will be separated into categories of your choosing. I will post more information when these features go live, so look for them in the coming weeks.

So in short for the look and feel, I was going for something a bit a more refined and less busy looking in the attempt to give users a better first impression that the business and product is solidly built and worth trying out. If you have any comments about the new site, positive or negative, please let me know in our forums. You can view the thread discussing this post at: Free Teams Forums: New Look & Feel