Website Changes

Good evening, everyone!

Over the past weekend into today, I've reorganized the website quite a bit. The main reason why is because I wanted to clean up the long dropdown lists that we had. I wanted to make this cleaner and easier to navigate, especially for those of you who are accessing the website mainly on your mobile devices. For example, previously we had 14 different records pages under the "XC" dropdown list. And we had even more under the "Links" dropdown. That's way too many. 

So here's what I've done, and I'll go through, section by section of the header.

• About: In this section I moved the Team Calendar and bus schedule to the XC section and reorganized the listing so that it is alphabetically organized. I also edited the schedule to remove the tentative 2016 track schedule so that the page only features the 2015 cross country schedule. Once we know our official track and field schedule, I will re-post the 2016 track schedule.

• Database: Nothing new here, except that I just switched around the "Database" and "All-Time Bests" so that it was in alphabetical order, which it was not previously. You can still search the entire database from the 1977-78 to 2014-15 school year. Every year of Westmont XC meet results is listed, as are 2015 track season meet results.

• XC: This is one of three dropdown sections with major changes. This is the only dropdown list where things are not alphabetically organized. This is a list where I wanted to keep certain things near each other. (8/7/2015: This has been edited. See below). Previously, I had put a separate page for each of the many records pages that we have within this dropdown list. Many of these pages are still on the website, just not in the dropdown lists. Here's a rundown of what is now under the XC dropdown list: 
  • Bus Schedule: Access our 2015 bus schedule departure times here. This page was moved from the "About" section.
    
    
  • Camps: New this summer, we'll use this more next year. On this page, as we get e-mails about various XC and track camps, we will post them on this page for interested runners. 
    
    
  • Current Course Records: I have posted all of the top times lists for various invitationals that we run at here, including our home course. In addition, there's also a top 30 list for three courses (Detweiller Park, Lisle Community Park and Oakhurst Forest Preserve) that we run in multiple meets at. It is set up similarly to the new History page, where you click on a link for a certain course that you want to look at the Top 10 list for and you will be taken to another page with the current top times! Update 8/7/2015: We've also added two top 10 lists for each meet --one list by time, where runners can be listed more than once; and a Top 10 Runners list, where each runner is only listed once with the best time of their careers at that course. Check it out!
    
    
  • Defunct Course Records: This was previously the overall course records page. Old courses that we have run at (including old home course layouts) can be found here.
    
    
  • Directions to Away Meets: You can find all the directions you need to our many away meets & invitationals on this page.
    
    
  • History: We have so much history, and here I've been able to consolidate 14 different pages of various records in Westmont Cross Country history into a single main page. There are links to all of the 14 pages that we previously had each listed in the dropdown. All pages are fully accessible. All you have to do is click on the various links to the records pages. Organizing all those different pages this way helps to clean up a LOT of the clutter we saw in the dropdown list previously.
    
    
  • Photos: Click here for a listing of photo albums from meets that we have run in. You can thank Mrs. Thomas for the many photos we have from the 2012, 2013, and 2014 seasons. If you would like to us to put photos on our Flickr account this season, please contact Coach Dunne.
    
    
  • Team Calendar: Self-explanatory. This page was also moved from the "About" section.

8/7/2015 edit: I decided to change this so it was alphabetically listed. The above has been changed to reflect the updated order.

• Track: The main thing here is that I reorganized our various records (School Records & All-State Athletes) into the new Records page.

• Training Log: No changes here, but use this feature to keep track of the miles that you have run!

• Team: No changes in what is in the list here, except that it's now alphabetically organized.

• Links: This is the other section that had major changes made to it: Instead of every link being listed in the drop down, if you click on the Links tab in the header, you will then be taken to a static page with to... what else? Links to important links. Included here are links to various pages for Westmont High School & the WHS Athletic Department, the various social media outlets that we use, and other various cross country & track and field links from around the state of Illinois as well as from across the country.

• Text Alerts: New for this year! We are utilizing a service called Remind to be able to quickly and efficiently text all of our runners and parents with important information. Click on this for instructions on how to sign up (athletes and parents have their own groups, but most times we will send the information to both groups).

• Login: Self-explanatory.

• Help: If you are having trouble with the website and aren't sure what to do, click here and fill out the quick form to explain your problem. Coach Dunne will get the message, and he will try and fix your problem as soon as possible. He'll contact you by e-mail.

Hopefully this helps to explain the reorganization of our website. If you have any problems, please don't hesitate to contact Coach Dunne!

Keep checking back for more information as we get closer to the season!