Over the past few days I’ve been spending some free time and downtime tweaking mobile.kusports.com and adding a couple of really cool (IMHO) features. We send out a ton of cel phone updates during each game, but I really wanted to bring our awesome live stats to mobile devices.
The first order of business was to see how the low-tech live stats view looked on the mobile site. Since pretty much all of our templates extend a base template, it looked pretty darn good out of the box (thanks to template inheritance and some great default templates by Wilson and David). Most of the time spent on this template was to condense the stats a little bit to require less scrolling on small devices. Here is the live stats view using Opera Mini on my 6682:
Having the live stats accessable from mobile devices is great, but it’s important to make it extremely easy for someone to get to them if they come to mobile.kusports.com while a game is in progress. The solution was to present the current score on the home page if and only if a game is in progress. This was accomplished by writing a custom template tag (which took literally a few minutes) and a tweak to the home page template:
Now the score and the stats are first and foremost while there’s a game on, but nowhere to be found if there isn’t. The last thing I wanted to do was to make sure that the current score (and a link to the live stats) was available from other interior pages in an unobtrusive way. I figure that if someone is reading a story or viewing photos while a game is on, they probably wouldn’t mind knowing the current score either. I decided to present the information without announcing itself quite as loudly as the score on the home page:
I hope to do some more tweaking of our mobile sites here and there as free time permits, and I’ll do my best to highlight the changes here if I think they are particularly clever.
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I really like the persistent (but innocuous) game score on every page. Especially with how long it takes to get “back” on some phone browsers, it’s nice to be able to just poke around the site and not lose track of what you came there for – the score.
I have been out of pocket during the last few KU games. I decided to try out the mobile site and was able to see the score for the first couple of games but not recently. Has something changed?
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