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New Website User Questions

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:42 am
by hilltop7u
I designed a simple website for my son's tournament team: http://hilltop7u.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Mostly so the parents and others in the league keep abreast of the happenings. I'm experimenting with the iOS version of iScore on my iPhone and so far love what I see. Now I'm thinking that live updates to the games will be possible, but I have a few questions:

1. What are the advantages of having an iScore website? I think it's just a custom team name/URL.

2. Can I post a live game link on my website somehow that will take the viewer to the iScorecast site?

3. I believe I will be able to upload my stats to my site using the email feature and then paste the HTML code. Is this correct?

4. Is there a way to shortcut #3 and upload directly to a specific page on my site?

Re: New Website User Questions

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:32 am
by danmcc
Welcome to the board.

1 Ease of getting data onto the site, simple site for the non web literate (me)

2 yes, you can link individual game iScorecast links or a link to your iscorecast page with all the game links

3 Emailing stats populates the scorecard, an export from your device populates all the games and stats. It takes less than 5 minutes to do post game items to completely populate the website.

4 see 3

Re: New Website User Questions

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:36 am
by OhioTex
As usual, Dan did a nice job summarizing, I agree. , but as is often the case, sometimes will expand on his comments. (plus i wrote this before i saw dan's post, felt might as well hit submit)..

Many more advantages, that you listed, great value in my opinion .



1. What are the advantages of having an iScore website? I think it's just a custom team name/URL.
* go to http://iscorebaseball.com/gallery/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; to see live examples....
* Much more than a custom URL, in fact that is probably not even close to making the top ten reasons why to get a team web site.

2. Can I post a live game link on my website somehow that will take the viewer to the iScorecast site?
* team sites will create a unique iscorecast link for every game. it will be listed under the games menu, by game

3. I believe I will be able to upload my stats to my site using the email feature and then paste the HTML code. Is this correct?
you are starting to hit on the real #1 value of team sites, but missing the main advantage, simpicity and ease of game to game updates w/o HTML.

* no. you option export, it then automatically updates your team web site database,
*After every game, you get in the habit to 1) email yourself the score card, 2) synchronize your iscorecast, and 3) option export

then
* who ever you have on your team roster on the device, is shown on the team roster on the web. name number etc.
* click the stats page on the web, there are cumulative stats for everyone on your team roster (batting, then pitching then fielding)
* click a column heading (AVG, OBP, ERA etc ) and the stats sort by that.
* click on a player name, and viola, you drill down on that player and see his game by game stats, (also sortable by column heading)
* click the hit locations, and up pops hit charts for all your rostererd players


4. Is there a way to shortcut #3 and upload directly to a specific page on my site?
the automatic update from device to web site by OPTIONS EXPORT is only to an iscore team website. but you can embede those pages in an independent site if you want. iscore has made that doable through iframes.

MY TWO MORE CENTS
On the games tab
* you get a row for each game exported, in that row you get team name vs name, score, win loss, and links
* link for the scorebook PDF, the iscorecast, a box score, a play by play , position played matrix, and stats for that game. All by doing the export, email and synch steps after each game

That is all standard stuff
you get a free form editable HTML cover page, (Lots of the fun you see in examples in gallery)
you get a calendar page (most embed goole calendar here)
you get a team photo page (many embed picas albums here)
you get the ability to password protect pages on/off
you get the ability to edit which stat columns you want displayed
you get teh ability to also sort stats by leagues if you want

Again all updated by post game export (which also gives you off site back up in case device lost or stolen). done in a few minutes all you need is the internet connection to your device. no PC involvement.

Re: New Website User Questions

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:30 pm
by hilltop7u
Thanks for the replies. I'm going to pull the trigger on the site for out tourney team. At the very least it will be good test of the features.

Re: New Website User Questions

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:03 am
by hilltop7u
Okay, I purchased the website for the team. I was able to embed links to the iScorecast on our site, but I'd like more! I can't figure out how to embed the roster and stats pages on my site.

I gather from reading here that they're actually links to my "device", but can't seem to find how the URL so I can wrap them into the site.

Any thoughts?

Re: New Website User Questions

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:38 am
by FTMSupport
Right click on any of the pages, and view the properties of the page. The URL of each page can be seen. They will be in this form...

Roster: http://iscorebaseball.com/roster.php?t=XXXXX" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Stats: http://iscorebaseball.com/stats.php?t=XXXXX" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The X's would be replaced with the team name for your website.

Re: New Website User Questions

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:44 am
by OhioTex
Sounds like you have your own independent web site and know how to do HTML iFrame coding, and just want to pull in the pages from the iscore team web site you subscribed to ( http://iscorebaseball.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;yourteam)

Here is the general syntax...

<IFRAME src='http://iscorebaseball.com/PAGE.php?t=yourteam width='100%' height='100%></IFRAME>

Where PAGEcan be...
home
roster
stats
games
photos
sponsors
calendar

Here is a good page for how to create an iFrame: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
<iframe src="{put you web site URL here"} height="{set height}" width="{set width}" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Re: New Website User Questions

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:43 am
by hilltop7u
Outstanding, thanks!