Overtime Central

At the end of March CFL.ca, the official site of the Canadian Football League, was offline with only a banner informing users of the upcoming change displayed for about 24 hours while they switched the site over from the old CANOE family site to the new standalone site powered by SUN Microsystems. Since the announcement in June 2003 that SUN was investing in hardware and software to modernize the CFL’s technology and web infrastructure I have been anticipating the new web site design. I wasn’t expecting a lot in terms of standards compliance or design difference from the average corporate site but I was looking forward to an improvement in content. In turns out I was disappointed on all fronts. (more…)

On Saturday, April 9, 2005 Overtime Central was offline for about six hours as technicians performed the migration and upgrade of the Overtime Central site to a new site design and management software. (more…)

Overtime Central will analyze the State of NHL hockey in a two part series. In today’s post we will discuss the business problems facing the NHL while in a future post we analyze the issues we see with the on-ice product. (more…)