Glossary
- Beta
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toepoke.co.uk is currently in beta. In essence what this means is we've gone through as much testing as we can without having real people use the site.
For a more in-depth look at the term beta, please refer to Wikipedia
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- Block Booking
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Typically a venue (or pitch) where you have to pay a fee, you can either phone up on spec and book a pitch, or have an arrangement with the venue where the pitch is booked, and you only phone up to cancel. This is a block booking.
- Beta Comment
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Wherever you see a Beta Comment it means something on the screen you expect should work may not do. toepoke.co.uk is beta software and we're adding features all the time. I'm trying to release early and often and sometimes things may not be 100%.
So wherever I think something isn't 100%, I'll try and remember to add a comment saying that this is the case and what isn't functioning as it should. If I forget, feel free to whinge at me!
- Cached Content
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If you need to find something on the internet, you use a search engine like Google
, Bing or Yahoo.
When you ask the engine to search it doesn't go off and look at sites on the internet. The search engine will look at an index of sites on the internet, and report this in it's search results
. The index is kind of like
a second copy of the internet.
When we talk of cached content it's this index we're talking about. For instance if you decide to delete your account in the future we will remove any mention of you on the site. However we can't do anything about content already cached by search engines.
- Deadline
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Where I play I have to cancel the pitch the day before if I don't have enough players (otherwise I still get charged). In toepoke.co.uk world we refer to this as the deadline.
When your deadline is hit (see your match dashboard for when this happens) we'll send your manager an e-mail saying how many players you have in case you need to cancel the game.
- Future Matches
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Managers have certain privileges over regular members. These include being able to see upto 3 matches in the future.
This means your manager can add registrations for people who are on holiday, or cancel matches over Christmas and Bank Holidays.
- Game
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The game(s) you setup define how all your future matches will be run. For instance you can use reminders to say when invites to your squad are sent out, or how often you play your game.
- Manager
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Each game has a manager (actually you can have multiple managers, but I digress ...).
The manager is responsible for booking pitches (if required), allocating sides for matches and processing applications to join the squad.
- Match
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A match is one your games. So if your game is "every week on thursday at 6pm", then your next match will be Thu, 9th Sep and the following match will be on Thu, 16th Sep.
- Member
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A member is someone who is in your squad and gets invites to your matches.
- Nominator
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A Nominator is someone who has invited someone else to your game. So if you (as manager) invite Fred, then Fred invites Barney to your matches, then Fred has nominated Barney.
This just means that if you get someone wanting to play, you know who invited them so you can speak to the nominator in advance of accepting the new member, if you feel you need to.
- Perm a link
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A perm a link is a link to a game that doesn't change, even if where the game changes, of how often you play changes. So you can safely bookmark your game home page and always have it a click away!
- Registration
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A Registration is basically someome in your squad saying whether they are able to play or not.
- Reminder
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A reminder is kind of what it says on the tin! When organising a game you need to do certain things at certain times. For instance if your game is on a Thursday night, you may send invites to the game on the Friday before. If you pay for your pitch you may need to send out an e-mail out reminding people that we'll be charged if the game doesn't go ahead and they should drop out if necessary. Finally of course you'll need to send out the teams for the game (unless you make them up on the night).
One of the ways toepoke.co.uk takes away the faff is by sending all these e-mails out. However we don't know when you want them sending out, this is where the reminders come in.
- Squad
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We use the term squad to represent everyone who is on your list of invites that go out for each game. For instance in our regular Thursday nighter we have maybe 50 people in our Squad, of which we'll reliably get 12-14 a game.
- Team Sheet
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The team sheet is just what it says on the tin. On the team sheet page you set out who's playing on which side.
If you tend to decide the sides when you get to your match you can just put everyone on the same side and work it out when you get there.
- Testing
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As with any new creation, be it a building, a car or a website like toepoke.co.uk we need to make sure the thing works as we expect. As always Wikipedia is a good resource for a fuller explanation ... if you're really that interested
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- Venue
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Facility where your football games are played, local schools for instance often hire out their facilities during the evening when the children no longer need the facilities.
If you can't a venue near you in our database (which is quite likely given we're quite a new site!), then the Register of English Fooball Facilities is an excellent resource for finding venues.
