Need a little help with some beta testing :D

[Brains]

hey guys.
well the past 2 months I've been working on a little side project (which is why I haven't been gaming much).

some background info:
My entire family is made up of soccer freaks. (parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.)

well this coming June starts the world cup in south africa and I wanted to do something fun for my whole family to take part in. so I created essentially a website that will allow people to make guesses as to who they think will win each game of the world cup. I've made the site super friendly because alot of my family members aren't exactly the most computer literate people ever :D

so, I would like it if you guys went to the site and just fooled around a bit. just some friendly beta testing. don't try and break my site :D haha
Just do things you think someone who isn't super leet would do.

if you find any bugs, let me know. I'll keep testing myself too.
please keep it clean and friendly.

****also, on the "standings" page, it is supposed to tally up how many points you have accumulated from correct guesses but that code is run by me on the side since I can't predict who will win the games already :D I will update that code as the games go on so on that page, you will always see your count as 0. just a heads up!!

****also, you need javascript enabled in your browser


http://nelsonnogueira.com/worldcup/


Thanks in advance to the people who help out.

[Homfry]

NICE CRAZY FONT BRO :)

The site seems to work fine.

However, isn't the 1st and 2nd part of the group a little redundant can't you figure that out from who they selected to win? I'm not 100 percent on world cup rules :).

[Homfry]

Also if a name is too long then it sort of look wierd in the see standings section it will say BLAH BLAH NAME points (0) but the points section is partly cut off

[Homfry]

Also when you first click to view standings then all the pics of the flags in the right had side are not available and are replaced with the missing picture x.

Once you select a person it changes to what ever team they choose and the flags show up

[Homfry]

also you are allowed to say a country for example England will be first in group B and second in group B

[Brains]

NICE CRAZY FONT BRO :)

The site seems to work fine.

However, isn't the 1st and 2nd part of the group a little redundant can't you figure that out from who they selected to win? I'm not 100 percent on world cup rules :).

well I originally wanted it to automatically get who you wanted to be 1st and 2nd based on the group stages but it gets really tricky because in the tournament, two teams could have 2 wins and the only way to put one team over another goes by their goal differential, and that's not something I keep track of with the site. so I just make the players chose each individual game winner and then chose who they think will end up in 1st and 2nd.

Also if a name is too long then it sort of look wierd in the see standings section it will say BLAH BLAH NAME points (0) but the points section is partly cut off

currently the code only allows for a 1st name with 15chars max and a last name with 25 chars max. I haven't testing yet with a name that hits the max limit to see how it looks on the standings page. :D
EDIT: this has been changed to 12 chars for first name, 15 for last name, and the font size has been reduced along with making the select box wider.

Also when you first click to view standings then all the pics of the flags in the right had side are not available and are replaced with the missing picture x.

Once you select a person it changes to what ever team they choose and the flags show up

Ya, I know of this one. just have been to lazy to throw some if statements in the php :D was going to do this one eventually haha
EDIT: fixed this issue. now everything is nice and clean :D

also you are allowed to say a country for example England will be first in group B and second in group B

and yes, you can chose the same country to be in 1st and 2nd :D lol
once again, just more if statements in the javascript that's needed. not sure if it's something I should enforce though. maybe someone thinks a team could be in 1st or 2nd but they can't decide which....well they could put them in both to cover themselves?? haha I dno. it's an easy fix if it really seems weird to have it this way :D

[themuddaload]

that font makes my eyes asplode

[Brains]

it's a flashy, font. colorful. bright. alot like african culture.

[Clone]

I messed around with is:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta name="generator" content=
"HTML Tidy for Windows (vers 14 February 2006), see www.w3.org" />
<link type='text/css' title='standard' rel='stylesheet' media='print' href=
'worldcup2010_print.css?v=20100308144131' />
<link type='text/css' title='standard' rel='stylesheet' media='screen'
href='worldcup2010.css?v=20100416142459' />
<link type='text/css' title='standard' rel='stylesheet' href=
'worldcup.css?v=20091214095346' />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="../favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="icon" href="../favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<script language="JavaScript" src="chooseTeam.js" type="text/javascript">

</script>
<title>
2010 World Cup Challenge - Make Your Picks
</title>
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0" />
</head>
<body>
<form id="Form1" name="Form1" action="/worldcup/makePicks/index.php" method="post" onreset="emptyPage(Form1)";>
<div class="container">
<center>t

<a href="http://nelsonnogueira.com/worldcup/standings/"><img src=
"standingsLink.png" alt="" /></a>
</center>

...

And it broke.



lol. jk. Works fine as long as you go to "play" first", clicking on standing breaks it. And font goes to be confusing when going back up to look at the boards to pick the 2nd and first. May or may not want to change it, thatch a personnal choice, the letters--for me-- were just to alike.

[eddo]

1) The crazy looking fonts are too big for the pictures (the png files). Might want to make them smaller for the pictures.

2) I think the crazy fonts should be only used on first page. The other pages, where you do the picking teams and standings should be done in regular fonts.

3) You need anchors on your picking teams and standings pages, so people don't have to scroll so much.