Your Frequently Asked Questions Are Answered

I last wrote about having a new section called FAQ's being developed. Well last night we've deployed this new module out to the web site.

The FAQs are broken down by categories such as; General Questions, Course Questions, Group Questions, Side Game Questions, League Questions, Golf Tournament Questions and Scoring Questions.

Under each category you will find a series of questions which will link to a detailed answer page. Some of the answers will describe not only how to use GolfStakes.com but also how to use Mobile.GolfStakes.com (our mobile phone enabled scoring application). Generally we have tried to include a video link on the FAQ answer page so that we can demonstrate how easy it is to use GolfStakes.

Hope this helps.

Frequently Asked Questions

GolfStakes.com is a new site, and since we're new, it would be easy to say that a lot of people have questions about what it is we do, how to use GolfStakes, and what the site can do for them.  Well we're trying to address these Frequently Asked Questions by creating a new section of site just for this type of situation.

Coming soon to a site near you

What we're doing here is giving you, the user, a quick look up area for all of those questions on how to do certain things with GolfStakes. Included with each question is a detailed walk-through of the action being asked about. And usually a short video that can watched to give you some perspective on how that action is done.  Right now we're just presenting the basic information to get someone up and going with GolfStakes. As time goes on, we'll be adding more features such as related topics, and ratings on each of the topics that you are reading about.

Wrap up

So if you have questions about GolfStakes.com or need some help in creating a golf round, setting up a friends list or scoring a round of golf, check out our new Frequently Asked Question section on the site.

Course editing User Interface changes

So the course editing page has always been a large page. Lots of things going on with it, changing the name and address, course details, and most important the tees associated with a course.

Current Look

Here's a screen shot of what the current edit course page looks like.

Now when you're working on this page, you have to do a lot of scrolling and what not. And with our need to start placing even more information on this page, it started to get even longer. So to try and avoid the long pages, we're going to try out using a tabbed approach to this page.

Yeah, we've got tabs

First up is the score card. Everything that you've come to expect on this section is still the same. You will have a listing of all the current tees, and the ability to add a new tee just like before. Nothing has really changed with the functionality of the page, just the look of it.

The second tab is for the name and address of the course.

On this tab, you will have the ability to change the course name, the address, add/remove phone numbers, set the course to private or public and add in it's Ghin number if it's known.

Course Details is the third tab.

Now this tab is where we've really added in a lot more information for you the user to change and modify as needed. From here you can add a contact for the course, specific details about the course like the weekend and weekday rates, when it was built and who designed it, and even to be able to choose which types of grass are found on the greens and fairways.

Last we have a description tab.

We've gone and placed an advanced text box on this tab so that when a description is entered you can have paragraphs, listings, and bold and underline, most everything that you would expect from a simple text editor.

As you can see, at the bottom of tabs, there is a "save course" button displayed. Clicking this button at anytime will save all of your course information and return you back to the course home page.

Hopefully this layout will work out to be much easier for the user to work with and help keep our course database up to date. As always, comments are welcomed and encouraged.