Walden's ITEC 2070 Group B Project Football Encyclopedia Website

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Quick Facts

Some History

Walter Camp is widely considered the father of modern American football. Between 1880 and 1883 this coach of the Yale football team came up with several major adjustments to the game: an eleven player team, a smaller field, and the scrimmage –a player handing the ball backward to begin the play. An even more important alteration, if the offensive team failed to gain five yards after three downs they were forced to surrender the ball. Camp also established the norm of a seven-man line, a quarterback, two halfbacks, and a fullback. Thanks to Walter Camp, football as we know it finally took shape.

It was not until 1920 that the first professional football league was established. Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe was elected president of the American Professional Football Association and its 11 teams all located in the Midwest. This body changed its name to the familiar National Football League (NFL) in 1921, the same year the league started to release official rankings. The early NFL was loose knit. Teams often came and went, and college football was still the dominant form of the game. However, as college football stars like Benny Friedman and Red Grange joined the professional game, pro football gained in popularity. An annual championship game was begun in 1933 and by 1934 almost every small town football team had moved to the city.

Introduction to our Football Encyclopedia Website.

     Welcome to Group B’s HCI Football website.  Our designers have been working to ensure that we are able to effectively manage a website dedicated to our users who are interested in football.  There are many fun facts about players and teams located in the website that are interesting to many football fans.


We have also been working with developers to coordinate the ease of the website.  There are quick links on each page to take you back to previous pages or to the home page.  There are drop down menus with a selection of where the user would like to go next.  The colors chosen for this website will also help with disabilities related to color blindness.


The developers will ensure that there are screen magnifiers, and speech enabled extensions and plug-ins for the user’s browsers to help with the visually impaired. If a users browser is having issues with the accessibility features for their browser there has been a support page designed to help them. Alt-text attributes will be required for all images and backgrounds if the image does not load when the user is in the website, along with title tags naming each element in the site. Videos will include sub-titles if and where videos are being used.


  • Enlarged text and images

  • Chose correct colors and fonts to accommodate

  • Allow for TAB so mouse is not required for navigation

  • Streamline pages to reduce user errors

  • Provide captions

  • Functionality available from keyboard or Braille keyboard.

 

 

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