My local football team (which I have been a member of since the first day I kicked a football) came to me about designing a modern website. The aim of the website is to inform members of the club and public about upcoming events as well as documenting its history.

Predictoball is a football based online community game. Users can connect with friends, create and compete in leagues. Users predict the results of upcoming football games, then each week they compete with a randomly chosen opponent from their league in an attempt to rise higher in the leaderboards.

Every user has their own customisable page and can visit and leave comments on other users pages. Registered users are notified automatically by mail when the results for the
current week have been uploaded.

This site was primarily developed using Ruby on Rails and SQL. Ruby on Rails is a web application framework that has been growing in popularity in recent years.

This was my 3rd year project and was never launched online.

As the internet has developed so have the demands of web developers. In the past year or two, a method of developing for the web using frameworks has arrived.Frameworks have the ability to increase productivity of web development significantly by providing scaffolding which can automatically construct some of the models and views needed for a website.

To illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of using frameworks to create web applications,I developed blogs in both CakePHP and Ruby on Rails for this project. These are two of the most popular open source frameworks, both of which utilise the Model View Controller (MVC) architectural pattern.

Frameworks was the title of my 4th year project.