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Athletics Track Blog relocates

Athletics Track Blog relocates

June 10, 2010 No Comments

We at Athletics Track have decided to move our blog from the official WordPress website to right here! This comes as we embark upon a healthy search engine optimisation period for the website which will hopefully see us march up the Google rankings. We are sticking with WordPress and have installed the WordPress system on ...

Athletics Track’s first ever interactive newsletter!

Athletics Track’s first ever interactive newsletter!

June 10, 2010 No Comments

If you’re a member of the Athletics Track website, you will probably notice that you get a weekly Athletics News email sent directly to your inbox with the latest news, features and videos, including site updates.

Events Calendar and Arenas go mobile… 100 users also!

Events Calendar and Arenas go mobile… 100 users also!

May 26, 2010 No Comments

Well, to start with, we hit the 100 user mark this week, which in under 2 months and not much promotion apart from word of mouth and the odd poster here and there I think is quite good.  I’m currently looking in to getting a bit of support from a few people which if it ...

Events Calendar up and running (excuse the pun!)

Events Calendar up and running (excuse the pun!)

May 13, 2010 No Comments

After a few days working on the new system, we now have an Events Calendar on Athletics Track! The Calendar allows users to add events of their own, view upcoming events, find the arena that the event is going to be at, check out the weather at the track and even find a hotel nearby ...

Arenas section added to the site (events calendar coming soon)

Arenas section added to the site (events calendar coming soon)

May 5, 2010 No Comments

We have recently been working on an event calendar function on the website and realised that if we would like it to be fully integrated that we would need to give the option to actually select a stadium/arena rather than just typing in a city name.

Discussion Boards

Discussion Boards

April 6, 2010 No Comments

Following some input from users on the site, we have now implemented the idea of Discussion Boards on the website. The Discussion Boards are essentially forums that you would find elsewhere around the internet.  They are in quite a basic format at the moment due to the early level of implementation, however they will get ...

How do I turn Facebook fans in to users?

How do I turn Facebook fans in to users?

March 29, 2010 No Comments

Ok, so this morning I wake up and check my current Facebook Fan Page over at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Athletics-Track/340240362308 and I find out that I’ve hit the 200 fans mark, which in just about a month I think is pretty good going really.  I then go it up my actual users database for the website and somehow I’ve ...

More improvements to the site

More improvements to the site

March 17, 2010 No Comments

News Section A news page has now been added to the site before you actually login, so you can keep up to date with all the latest news from the Athletics world via feeds from European Athletics, BBC Sport and the IAAF.  I will probably look at integrating this in to the main logged in ...

Website Launched and new additions already

Website Launched and new additions already

March 16, 2010 No Comments

Well, the Athletics Track website officially launched this past Sunday and we’ve got a load of people signed up already to it which is great.  Lots of people using pretty much all of the facilities on the website.  There were initially some issues with accepting friend requests in Firefox, but they were quickly rectified. The site now ...

Launching This Sunday

Launching This Sunday

March 11, 2010 No Comments

The website will officially be launching on Sunday this weekend! You can go join the Facebook Event at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=352360358514&ref=mf There had been a few oversights by myself in regards to editing and deleting training sessions but they have now been rectified so if you get something wrong, you can go in and edit it or delete ...

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