Today I’ve made a few changes to the website. For awhile now I’ve been doing entries and reports and comments in Six Apart’s Movable Type (MT) blogging software. It’s worked out so well for me that I’ve decided to move a lot more of my website into MT. When I started this site back in December of 1998, I was using Microsoft Frontpage. And for a couple of things I still will, but there’s a lot of things on this site that can be better served by being put into MT.
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on moving the roster pages and the transaction archives into MT software. I’ve finished that today (mostly). The site’s menu now goes to the proper locations. It’s pretty much the same information that was here before, except now it’s in MT software. This has the added advantage to you of making the data searchable. This will also make my life a lot easier going forward in terms of data maintenance.
If you go the Roster page, you’ll see all the current active players, as well as the guys on the DL, and some selected minor league players. This is the same as it was before. (Yeah, I know several of the active players have filed for FA, but I don’t move ’em to former until that exclusive time period is up and thy’re truly not Ranger players anymore). The search in this area will search all the roster pages I have. Now earlier I said it was mostly all done. That’s because I haven’t finished converting over all the former Ranger player roster pages into the new format. Due to the way they were made over the years, I have to do them manually, and it’s somewhat tedious, so only some are done. I will get all the other ones in there. Since this was the only thing left to do, I didn’t want to hold up all these changes for former player pages.
Secondly, if you go to the transactions pages, you’ll see the roster transactions that I’ve had on my site since February of 1999. I have mostly tracked major league changes over the years, not so much the minor league transactions. But if you go into that area, there’s another search box, and that will let you search all my roster transaction archives.
So that’s the latest changes to the site. Please take a look at the areas, and come back here and leave a comment with your thoughts on these changes. I intend on making more such changes before the start of next season. I’m probably also going to be changing the way I handle game updates, too, although I haven’t worked out exactly how I’m going to do that yet.