This week, wyoming-football.com has transitioned to a new way of displaying game-by-game results on both team and year pages.
The new table-based display allows for a more dynamic and consistent way of showing game scores that also provides more consistency between and among pages than the old text-based display allowed. It also allows for more dynamic searching and filtering of results, allowing users to find out more about their favorite teams, rivalries, seasons and more.
Click here for a primer on how to use the new score display to its full potential.
This new approach has been a thought of mine for years, but only recently — thanks to the financial support of wyoming-football.com’s page sponsors — could I buy the kind of technical support I needed to implement the change. I don’t want to get too lost in the techno-babble here, but the quickest way to explain it is that all game results come from one place and are loaded on demand rather than the results themselves resting on any one page. What that means is when I do an update, I can do one update to the database rather than updates to the year page and each team page. And the benefit you get is the chance to have more of an opportunity to comb through those results to find exactly what you’re looking for.
Thanks to my wife, Charlynn, for sharing a bit of web development expertise beyond my understanding for helping me make it work.
If you see anything that looks weird or incorrect as you explore the new display, please let me know!
–patrick