Netball Website - PHP & MySQL

[alexpayne]

http://www.moresense.co.uk/netball

After login, Admin's are able to add/change teams, fixtures and results.
Other users can use a forum.
All users can view the fixtures, league table (which is calculated each and everytime it is displayed using the results entered by an admin) and match reports.

XHTML/CSS & PHP/MySQL

[alexpayne]

i have now improved the navigation.
thanks.

[alexpayne]

is there any more constructive critisms?

would be greatly appreciated.:)

[ttttt]

The images in the gallery are slow at loading try using another format and I'm not too sure about the colour sceme...

[alexpayne]

unfortunatly for the images, they are posted by the user.
i could impose a limit, but netball players wont have the ability to shrink the size etc...

unless someone, knows how to do this?

im sure it will come down to the upload limit of my host.

[ttttt]

You could use a tool like this on your website:
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/

[alexpayne]

the images are posted by the user, i do not personally upload the images myself.

are you suggesting that i manually go through all the pictures i get and optimize them and re-upload them?
can the picture be modified using code on my site, i.e. once uploaded i then pass it to be optimised at an external source and replace the image?

this site has CMS for the admin users, i dont want to be too much involved. just updates.

[ttttt]

What I meant is the you code use that kind of code on your site but not make it obvious.
Like, for example, a field to upload the image which is, using the code, optimized behind the scenes and then submitted to your site.

[alexpayne]

sorry, i understand what you are saying and that what i want to do.

but obviously i need the code to optimize the images before i upload.
do you have any?

[goughy000]

but obviously i need the code to optimize the images before i upload.

no..do it after, kind of

user uploads
site receives file
site optimizes picture
site submits the new optimized file


doing it this way the user does not need to know how to optimize as it is done once transfered to the site.

[alexpayne]

i understand that.

but how do i optimize the image?

[goughy000]

resize it to a smaller image.. change the file format to something like "gif" or "png".. the list goes on

[ttttt]

resize it to a smaller image.. change the file format to something like "gif" or "png".. the list goes on
He means the what code does he need to make it automated

[goughy000]

it depends what extensions the PHP has to what image functions you can use

[alexpayne]

this site is almost up and live: www.thanetnetballleague.co.uk

i still need to find an image optimizer, is there any php functions that will do this automatically?