Thought I’d take the time to post about what we’ve been working on recently and wsome of what we are planning for the future.

 It’s been a really busy time here at Hitssports the last few months.  We’ve been gearing up to support Football, Rugby and Hockey clubs and now that’s completed we’ve been improving a few other areas of the system.  Notably we’ve launched an updated interface througout the admin area to make the system easier to use and including context sensitive help against every field.  If you click on pretty much any field label, or field in a form throughout the admin area the label and field will be highlighted and a context sensitive help message will be displayed.  This should make the system a whole lot easier to use and improves the consistency of the layout in the admin area.

We’ve managed to get the issue resolved with the image manager, so that when editing pages you will now be able to easily navigate to include images uploaded to your photo galleries or your members photos.  This has been a real thorn in our side for a while, it’s been very difficult to get resolved, so we’re very pleased!

A few people have asked about video uploads, this is something that we are currently working on and we hope to launch fairly soon.  This will allow you to upload any format of video file, and have it automatically converted to a web friendly format.  The video will then be displayed with a thumbnail, in your galleries, we believe this a really exciting feature that will become more and more useful with current mobile phones taking high quality video.  Alongside the release of video we hope to also release a new feature to allow all media uploaded to the galleries section (photo and video) to be tagged.  Photos/videos will be able to be tagged with a list of members in the photo/video, and a fixture that it relates to if relevant.  This all means that when you look at a player profile on your website you will also be able to easily see all photos of them on the system, and any video that includes them too!  Likewise the results page for a fixture will include and linked images or video.

 We’ve got lots more on the horizon.  Right now we’re trying to generate interest from new clubs, and we’ve decided to take out advertising in next months Four Four Two and Rugby World magazines, to generate more interest from Football and Rugby clubs.  We really believe our service is second to none, now it’s just a case of getting the message out there and building on the system that exists….

 We’ll update this blog entry with more details on our Roadmap soon.

Our simple web based interface, enables you to select your teams online.  The whole selection process from managing who is available, through team selection, notifying selected members and confirmations to team captains is all handled centrally through the website.

Simply login to your websites administration area, then find the fixture you want to select your team for. Then just select the players from the dropdown lists. If you haven’t chosen any of your players yet, don’t worry, simply choose the “select other” option.

When you hit save, an email will automatically be sent to all the players selected, and another email sent to the team captain (or other email specified) to give a summary of all the email messages sent out. This allows for any players who still don’t use email. The email sent to each player includes a unique link to allow them to specify their availability, when they click this link a notification is sent to the team captain (or email address specified), to let them know about their availability.

It’s really simple, no more ringing around all your players, everything managed for you through your own website. The process also displays the teamsheet on your website, and means you all ready to post details of the result after the match has been played.

Hitssports.com helps you keep the running of your sports club simple, saving you time and money.