Scott.Buffington.me

With the end of season three winding down in the Brutal Deluxe Football League I thought it was time to evaluate the technology behind the Brutal Deluxe website. The news publishing engine is in need of an upgrade as it is currently a full version back from what I am using here on Nitevilla. The publishing tool is actually very different and lacks abilities that I feel those who might so choose to publish news would find useful. The database structure with multiple users also differs and requires some tweaks for me to add the full features, which is why I have not upgraded the news publishing engine yet. Here is a list of some features I will be adding after the season and postseason concludes.

• Ability to edit your own news posts. Each time you login you will see all the news items you published.
• Improved RSS and Atom news feeds. Current feeds work but are ugly and quirky, particularly regarding the date.
• HTML help text and Javascript buttons that will place the tags for you.
• Better XHTML publishing of news so that a large picture accompanied with little or no text will not overlap articles.
• Categories, I see some use for this feature.
• Archiving, somewhat useful as well.
• Pingomatic feature so those using the news feeds will be notified of updates.

For those of you who have used the Submit News feature this year, are there any features you would like to see added? While the Brutal Deluxe news is mostly colorful satirical posts and league news updates, it would be cool to see some others post other fantasy football or football news that they find interesting. I realize because of the competitive nature of fantasy football that breaking roster moves you would rather keep to yourself. Also, hopefully next season when trades come up, all the owners will feel comfortable enough to post offers in the news. Trades would be one of the categories we will have.