Archive for September, 2007

Welcome to NYFSBlogs.com

This is the Official NYFS Blog. Our goal here is to keep a comprehensive archive of site features, additions of and upgrades to services, community news, etc. for all users.

It also allows us to provide you with a free hosting solution for your own Blog. Now you can run your own blog - hosted by NYFS for absolutely free and help support the NYFS Community at nyfuturestars.com. It’s pretty simple, Create a new blog and start blogging.

All you need to get started is a site name (http://sitename.nyfsblogs.com), a valid email address, and a dream.

Here’s the latest at NYFS:

Added support for Sticky/Announcement posts, YouTUbe-style video embeds, WordPress Tables for data, upgraded search via Search Unleashed: “Advanced search engine that provides full text searching across posts, pages, comments, titles, and URLs. Searches take into account any data added by other plugins, and all search results are contextually highlighted. You can also highlight incoming searches from popular search engines.”

And another dozen or so new themes with an emphasis on NY team colors.

Lets Go Mets!

I added a ton of new ad-supported Blog Themes today, including many in the colors/schemes that would be most suited to some of the New York area non-Mets sports teams, e.g., The Jets, Giants, Devils, Rangers, Nets, etc.

We now offer more than 2 dozen preloaded “looks”. Remember you can pick a WordPress theme from anywhere and email us and will upload it to the server.

NYFS has one of the largest organization exclusive databases of over 1,500 players, 5,000 stat lines, 8,000 photos, and 12,000 fans.

There are profile pages for every player in team history, stats as far back as 1962. Cleon Jones‘ AA stats. Tom Seaver. Ed Kranepool’s minor league numbers. etc.

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Every registered NYFS user is a sportswriter covering the Mets. By registering you are provided with a free “Blurb” tool, which allows you to write anything you want about the Mets past/present/future. Staff members will then preview your post for content and publish it to the main site. All your “Blurbs” are aggregated on your NYFS profile page.

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We have a new tool here at NYFS to allow NYFSers to help us maintain the accuracy of the historical database here, re: retired players, former Mets and prospects, etc. called “NYFS Historian”

We need some volunteers to participate. It doesn’t require any commitment or minimum effort, or responsibility. Just gives you access to help fix errors and update information on the player pages from a link on the main site, just like the “AddABlurb” tool, as your copius free time allows.

There’s no age requirement, just a working knowledge of Google and Wikipedia for fact checking, and command of the English language. We’re going to be adding a lot of new data/stats here in the not too distant future, and we want to make sure we keep all the player records comprehensive and accurate.

Please let me or Zach or Calli know if you are interested in helping, or we could possibly draft you regardless. Consider yourself warned.

We installed a photo gallery/storage tool for NYFS users at:

http://myphotos.nyfuturestars.com

MyPhotos @ NYFS runs on the Coppermine Gallery software.

http://coppermine-gallery.net/

Features Include:

- arrangement of pictures in categories and albums
- picture information stored in database
- users can upload pictures with web interface of ftp (and admin can batch-add to database)
- full multimedia support
- creation of thumbnails and intermediate size pics
- search feature
- last added
- random picture
- user management (private galleries, groups)
- caption, title, description and user defined fields for each picture (searchable)
- easy install (installer provided)
- user comments
- e-card feature
- slideshow viewer
- image rotation
- multi-pic upload
- separation of the breadcrumb block so that it can be placed independently of category in the template
- title option to sort in albums
- online help feature for the admin pages
- plugin-API
- password-protected albums
- picture-resize on upload
- advanced search (boolean operators)

Awesome!

Blog Roll Auto Linker…

D-Wright

Cool..Linkifier for your blog!

wordTube gives you YouTube-stlye video in your Blog.

http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/wordpress-plugins/wordtube/