A manager asked me last week if I implement the possibility of putting the playernumber on the shorts and let users decide where the logo and the teamlogo will take place on the shirts. This manager doesn’t use SimCheeese to create teamphotos. He uses it to create pictures of each players only for his team-homepage. Well, that was the right moment to implement all the other features for SimCheeese stored in my head and meet his desire. The following features have been added now:
- Setting the amount of rows of players on the teamphoto: 1 row (players are standing only), 2 rows (players are seating and standing), 3 rows (players are seating, standing and standing on seats)
- Showing list of playernames on the bottom of the teamphoto
- Ahora tambien en ESPANOL!
- Putting playernumber on shorts
- Setting the location of the teamlogo and playernumber: right, center or left
- Scale the teamphoto’s size to the width of 400px, 200px or 100px or original size
Comparing the current state of SimCheeese with the ones of the past, SimCheeese increased not only by new features and possibilities. I invested lots of work into the usability too. I remarked very fast, that a user friendly webtool is used more. The website statistics shows this fact too. The first version of SimCheeese needed an upload of an face image for every player. User had to take a screenshot of the Hattrick’s website showing the players. Only a few were able to create a teamphoto without any erros. At the moment, users only have to copy the HTML source code of the players page of Hattrick and paste it into a textfield. In the this source code are written the images for the players faces. SimCheeese extracts the image pathes and loads them into the teamphoto. It’s more easy but a lot of people don’t know what HTML is and howto get it from their browser.
The problem could be solved easy. Hattrick provides for CHPP like me the possibility to get XML and HTML files. Unfortunately, Hattrick doesn’t allow to include the accessible HTML files into CHPP tools. The only way is to ask the users to extract manually the HTML source code from the page and paste it into a textfield.
Here are some examples of the past versions of SimCheeese: