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Automating the Soccer Site

The site I built last year for my youngest son’s high school soccer team needs to be automated. He’s a senior this year, and had decided he’s had enough of futbol for his lifetime. He played since he was four, so I guess I can cut him some slack.

At any rate, I spent a fair amount of time building it and maintaining the site last season. It’s mostly static, although it does make extensive use of include files. My goal is to continue supporting the site, but minimize my personal time commitment.

How will I do it? I’m hoping I’ll be able to adapt the current look and feel to Invision Power Boards, with IPB Dynamic Lite as the front door to the site.

I really like the configurability of IPB, but I’ve never delved into it’s skinning capabilities. I’m pretty happy with the default style, but the colors need to be modified to match the school’s colors: red and black.

I’ll keep you posted. Maybe this die-hard ASP codehead will become a PHP convert yet!

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Style

I like the way Moveable Type uses cascading style sheets (CSS) to control the look of the site so completely. While I’m not content to use the default styles available, it is amazing to see the power of CSS at work.

I’m currently trying out the Rusty style. Finally a respite from all the blue in my web world.

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Graduation

Having passed the initial hurdles of installing MT on Windows, I now need to find a real purpose. Make no mistake; I have no aspirations for the blogsphere. This place is purely self-serving.

I just need to find what it can do for me.