I hope this new site can deliver on what it says about news,articles and other updates. It is nice to see a write up on the kid going to Syracuse. I feel sorry for all the current seniors. It's finally their turn to get some ink, maybe help them get recruited and the old dyestat pretty much folds up. Maybe this new site can get the blood flowing again. Good luck to them!!!
Sorry I mean prepgold!!
Thank you for helping us with pub.
The site is PrepGold.com
We are going to do our best to keep the promises we made on the site.
Tomorrow we have a another top athlete committing with Oregon (Not Lukas) and a top 10 Sprinter announces his commitment.
Please quit starting posts and responding to yourself to pimp your website.
That's def not happening. I only post under this name. People who know me, know I've always posted under one name on Letsrun. I also know what the web-site I work for is called.
PrepGold wrote:
That's def not happening. I only post under this name. People who know me, know I've always posted under one name on Letsrun. I also know what the web-site I work for is called.
The web site needs some work. i would suggest decreasing the size of the images/text. it looks clunky. the bubbly sans serif text and color schemes are also offensive to the eyes. i cannot discern any difference between the "athletes" and "rankings" pages. these pages epitomize user-unfriendliness. you have a link appended downpage to "results," which inconveniently directs me to a PDF of the very same list that appears on the page from which it is linked. the only difference is that season bests are listed beside athletes' names -- marks that should already appear on the previous page. the PDF is completely superfluous. the "Contact" page appears to actually be an "About" page. Please get some editors to take a glance at that page. There are grammatical errors and, simply put, very bad writing.
Take, for instance, this excerpt:
"The athletes are ranked by a group of people. This group is made up of former Division 1 track athletes and coaches, as well as input from select high school coaches."
In any text intended for publication and to be read by casual visitors, BREVITY IS KEY. Is the sentence "The athletes are ranked by a group of people." really necessary? It's not. It conveys absolutely no useful information. Here's how I would change that graf:
"Athletes are ranked by a group of former Division I track athletes, with input from coaches at the collegiate and high school levels."
I've literally spent two minutes perusing your site, and that cursory visit yielded those suggestions. I'm sure there is plenty more that needs fixing.
Good luck.
While there is some useful information on the site I think that the bio pages of the athletes are ridiculous and unnecessary. Stop taking random statistics and trying to turn them into an analysis of an undeveloped athlete's potential. If you're going to make such conclusive claims about these runners you should at least make the site look more professional. I get a feeling that it's run by a group of semi-knowledgable runners making quick assumptions.
Not a fan wrote:
semi-knowledgable runners
that's being very generous.
PrepGold is a weak attempt at becoming a dyestat site. First of all, it should be called "Boys PrepGold", because there isn't a shred of info on any girls. Secondly, the info on there is not very accurate. The mistakes are rampid and there is zero attempt at varifying commits. If I had to grade PrepGold I would give them 4/10....
Speaking of mistakes.
rampid = rampant