Barb Barker - 2003-08-27

Hi,
I have been in Online Gaming Spades for over a year and I am tired of not having any options when it comes to managing my team site.  I am very interested in helping with designing a Clan type program.  I can't help much with coding but have LOTS of ideas. 

I play on the MSN Gaming Zone and am trying to figure out the best way to keep track of our Zone Team points.  Each Zone Team defines that themselves for their Team/Clan/Club and you need forums etc.  Points are based on Tournament Wins/Runner Ups etc.  Then there are Trivia Points as well lol.  The Hosts/CoHosts get points for each Tourney they Host too.

I personally would like to see a zipped program that would allow you to:
put in your team/clan logo and change all fonts/colors etc to your preferences
that would include a forum so people only have to sign up once
include reports showing Points/Stats of the players
photo album for the players
multiple games like Zone Wide so you can get points for Backgammon, Hearts, Cribbage, Spades all on one Clan Site, separate yet together if you know what I mean lol
Setup of Officers/Tourney Hosts with certain priveleges
Events Calendar that "assigned" users can use to enter their events like Scheduled Tourneys(repeating event feature) for Hosts, Officer/Clan meetings etc.
Chat would be nice but option to turn that feature off if Hosting Service doesn't allow it.
Setup/Run an online Tourney that is not based on membership with the clan/team.  Players sign up as teams or singles.  Then get matched up and html page is posted that all participants can see.  Ability of the Host to administer the tourney from round to round and reproduce page on the fly.

I have seen lots of individual programs(open source) out here that MIGHT be made to work together as 1 unit(php, MySQL)?  I have a zillion of them downloaded lol.  But I have no clue as to how to get them to work together to produce 1 program. 

I am a good tester and debugger.  I did that for the last 4 years with a software program designed for schools so I am not new to that.  I also have a programming background, just not in the internet languages grrrrrrr lol.  But I have the basic "logic" to help in that area as well.

Let me know if I can help you in any way!

Barb