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Quote from: Sam

A sport IMDB is interesting but does anyone really care ?

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americans + stats

Thats a good point lol

Americans love them and the only real places you have for these are from tv sites or wikipedia, both are not great.. the TV ones tend to be just a horrible interface a mass of colour clashes etc and The systems they use not really robust enough

It actually would be more challenging then it seems, in the documentation and gaols of the project and the fact your in the US it would appeal to you peers

- Create a sports stat/information style like IMDB containing profiles of sports personalities and locations and events blablabla
Write that there is no true site for this for all sports, a lot of it is scattered or for individual sports all done in a variety of ways scattered all over the place
Write that most information and stats come from the TV channel websites who air the sports or news sites and none are presented very well or seem to function very well
etc

- Your goal would be to create an IMDB style site for all sport to unify this and have a a better presentation and more hardcore system to run it
You would add why your concept would be different and better I would have things in this area like...

- Presentation would be better, it is a challenge to present all the data on a player and stadium or event and so to do this well would be a challenge - You got some very good folk in css and design that can help with that
One of the presentation aspects would be that for each sport the layout would be identical but the theme of the site would change for each sport type and if you did the design say you had a fancy image at the top for each sport, representing the sport or a news slider for each this would all be in the same place but look different. Links may change in relevence to the sport but the layout be the same and a stats page of a person would be the same but under the theme of the sport

- wiki
To be up to date you need it to really be a wiki based site, moderated of course but it would defiantly need to be wiki based

- semantic site
Now bare with me on this sam as I do not know if you read about these and will use an example from a MMO (online game)
World of warcraft has lots of stats , its a massive online game with 10 million players with quests, item (loot) and stats gallore.
Not to long ago blizzard create the WOW armoury http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Ner%27zhul&n=Ethen
Has information on players, guilds, items etc all pulled from games database
It uses ajax, xml and based on the MVC architecture of java and I think it is oracle database they use

This is a nice site, well presented but what it offers is an xml for all sorts of information from an item to a player to a guild which you can use. A guild (group of players - clan) can use this site to grab the xml files and use them for what ever they want.
Some have gone further and many do not like all the fancyness of the armour and so made this http://armorylite.com/
Basically the same thing but uses the armourys output to produce a light version

A sports stat info site would produce an xml output for a player for example, It would not have the image of course and image protection to stop over leaching but the xml could be used as a semantic element for the site and be used by others if they wanted to create something or just used in the actual site itself in a number of ways.

- Future expansions of the site
It is always a good idea to just write about how the site would go further to show your system could do it or what could be done with it..
For yours ticket purchasing or merchandise  (store) could be incorporated into the site
Up to date tv scheduals could also be added



Few more things you can add to bolster the concept I am sure will crop up in your head or mine

Thanks for the detailed ideas but sports stats doesnt really interest me.

At least you know what to put for anything you pitch though in terms of the elements they would be looking for as well as the thing itself and the code etc

This isnt the UK, you have to actually work at uni in the states (although of course neither compare to a proper job).

omg youve been over there too long  

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Quote from: knighty

imdb for music....

because youve mentiond it plenty of times before in the past so you probably have half a dozen ideas for it already

how complex does it have to be ?   guess the website and database are pretty simple really... ?

IMDB for music  = Last.fm.

Sam if you are this indecisive, just take one of the projects the lecturers are offering.

What projects? This isnt the UK, you have to actually work at uni in the states (although of course neither compare to a proper job).

lol seems to me all you need to be in uni in the states is some php and mysql knowledge to make a website that just queries a big ol database.

Hard work indeed.... now I see why you left the working world to persue a more academic route.

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Quote from: Sam

This isnt the UK, you have to actually work at uni in the states (although of course neither compare to a proper job).

omg youve been over there too long  

He will tell you to have a nice day instead of saying bye next time you meet, lol

No one says that really.
Its "how you doing"
and
"have a good one"

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Photo site:
Have people famous or not, locations, events etc take the concepts of the sports site in this regard
Community style site where people upload images but when they do fill out information about what the image is and well as a tagging system for uploaded photos like on facebook.

The site would be an image uploader you could like to like imageshack but only as a means to an end so would server two functions
the site would have examples or one person or event reletive to date or something on main page but the search ability would be the main feature.
People could search "David Beckham" or "houses of parliament" and a page would load with that person, location or event and have a wall of images associated about that place presented in some cool way with ajax and then have a tag element with relationships to other things or images. An image of David Beckham outside the houses would then be able to link to his page
Image thumbnail to ajax pop up with information about image, facebook tagging feature so users could tag a name or a face on those images and a page could then be generated about that person automatically if say 5 photos are tagged with a place or name of a person or event and a page made holding links to those tagged photos thus then allowing new ones to be added for that person or event
Possible small breif wiki description of the person or place as an intro to the page but mainly all about the pictures

A music singer has a picture page 20 of them are from his new concert in the O2 stadium, they would be displayed on the O2 stadium page when uploaded as well has his page as well as the event page (the concert) and if as mentioned already something does not exist just from the system knowing that say 10 images of something has been added and it not having a page automatically creating a new page for that thing

Depending on how long that takes and expands either do or just write about expansions through special sorting methods of sites, trying to arrange them in orders, inside outside of a building for example etc.

Filters, ability to ban sites hotlinking to remove porn etc of course in place in the system

Have you visited flickr lately?

Not quite what i meant as there are a number of such sites no comments, no just list - wall of photos and control and inter associations with the images more so then sch sites like flickr and use of the semantic site concept and then progress to what we have seen with auto alignment of images on the page etc.

Quote from: M3ta7h3ad

lol seems to me all you need to be in uni in the states is some php and mysql knowledge to make a website that just queries a big ol database.

Hard work indeed.... now I see why you left the working world to persue a more academic route.

You dont actually know what the requirements are though do you. I dont recall the words PHP or MySQL previously being mentioned.

Its a safe bet though.

Quote from: M3ta7h3ad

Quote from: neXus

Photo site:
Have people famous or not, locations, events etc take the concepts of the sports site in this regard
Community style site where people upload images but when they do fill out information about what the image is and well as a tagging system for uploaded photos like on facebook.

The site would be an image uploader you could like to like imageshack but only as a means to an end so would server two functions
the site would have examples or one person or event reletive to date or something on main page but the search ability would be the main feature.
People could search "David Beckham" or "houses of parliament" and a page would load with that person, location or event and have a wall of images associated about that place presented in some cool way with ajax and then have a tag element with relationships to other things or images. An image of David Beckham outside the houses would then be able to link to his page
Image thumbnail to ajax pop up with information about image, facebook tagging feature so users could tag a name or a face on those images and a page could then be generated about that person automatically if say 5 photos are tagged with a place or name of a person or event and a page made holding links to those tagged photos thus then allowing new ones to be added for that person or event
Possible small breif wiki description of the person or place as an intro to the page but mainly all about the pictures

A music singer has a picture page 20 of them are from his new concert in the O2 stadium, they would be displayed on the O2 stadium page when uploaded as well has his page as well as the event page (the concert) and if as mentioned already something does not exist just from the system knowing that say 10 images of something has been added and it not having a page automatically creating a new page for that thing

Depending on how long that takes and expands either do or just write about expansions through special sorting methods of sites, trying to arrange them in orders, inside outside of a building for example etc.

Filters, ability to ban sites hotlinking to remove porn etc of course in place in the system

Have you visited flickr lately?

Not quite what i meant as there are a number of such sites no comments, no just list - wall of photos and control and inter associations with the images more so then sch sites like flickr and use of the semantic site concept and then progress to what we have seen with auto alignment of images on the page etc.

OMG! PEOPLE IVE INVENTED THE MOTION DEVICE!... oh wait... it just does the same thing that that thing does... whats it called? Oh... the wheel.