Website makeover: The Baseball Page
Earlier this year I wanted to challenge myself to build a website completely with CSS and PHP. I did a a makeover of my workhorse site The Baseball Page, which has been online since 1995, chugging along with a faithful following and generating excellent page views and income via Google Adsense. All the content has been and always will be free, and with a loyal group of writers and contributors, the site is fresh.
The site has much more color and it relies more on graphics than ever before. As I always have, I relied heavily on PHP includes to make the site flexible for updating the look-and-feel.
In addition, this is the first of my sites that I’ve run on Expression Engine, the CMS from Ellis Labs. Outside of the dynamic database content that generates the player pages and the lists of rankings, etc., the content is stored inside EE.
New features include a daily baseball video provided by YouTube, and an email newsletter that delivers This Day in Baseball History info to your email box every day.
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