Scottish Football Historical Archive

[sfha 27]

As you say, extra traffic put the site over the monthly limit. I now have unlimited bandwidth so the site will stay up.

One issue I do have is that webpages are not showing correctly. Some spaces as well as apostrophes (eg in 'A' ) are showing as a ? in a small black diamond. I create the pages on Word but cannot fathom how to correct it. Any pointers please!

[Ginaro 1,814]

1 hour ago, sfha said:

As you say, extra traffic put the site over the monthly limit. I now have unlimited bandwidth so the site will stay up.

One issue I do have is that webpages are not showing correctly. Some spaces as well as apostrophes (eg in 'A' ) are showing as a ? in a small black diamond. I create the pages on Word but cannot fathom how to correct it. Any pointers please!

Basically it's an issue with the character encoding of the page - the encoding doesn't contain those curly quotes, so it's not able to display those characters. You've three options:

1. Replace them with non-curly/straight quotes (might be better just using a normal text editor like Notepad++ or see if you can change the settings in Word to not use smart quotes)
2. Replace them with an HTML entity in the HTML code, e.g. ‘A’  https://www.w3.org/wiki/Common_HTML_entities_used_for_typography
3. Change the character encoding of the page by replacing <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" > in the head to <meta charset="UTF-8"/>

BTW, I'm curious how much bandwidth was used in a month? (on what is a fairly basic site without that many images)

Edited August 19, 2020 by Ginaro

[sfha 27]

Cheers, mate.

I tried out your suggestion on the Glasgow & WOS League page using notepad to alter the quotes and it appears to have worked. I'll amend the other files accordingly over time but as I want to re-populate the site as quickly as possible these will be as and when. Funnily this only happened after I upgraded my hosting package, co-incidence?

I was on the basic 5Gb but this appears to be eaten up due to me uploading a lot of files to it. I'm now on an unlimited package so the site will now stay up.

 

[sfha 27]

Western Junior League tables and other Ayrshire leagues added

 

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Edited November 22, 2020 by sfha

[FairWeatherFan 3,758]

Hey @sfha

I noticed that Dalbeattie Star's first team withdrew from the EoSFL just prior to the beginning of the 2009-10 season. There's even a mention that their SoS reserve was being disbanded with the first team taking their place in the SoSFL for the forthcoming season in that year's SNLR.

In both the 2009-10 & 2010-11 SNLR they are credited as Dalbeattie Star A on their league tables. On your website for both tables they are credited as Dalbeattie Star reserves, the same for the South League Cup in 2010-11.

 

 

[sfha 27]

I'll amend these later today.

I'm still working on the page of the North Caledonian FA and its predecessors.

From what I can discern the North of Scotland Junior FA/League were renamed the 2nd XI FA/League in 1935 prompting the formation of a new North of Scotland Junior League which also included some Morayshire clubs and existed until the war. An earlier Ross-shire Junior League also existed during the early 1930s. The updated page will also feature an extensive list of the various league and cup winners.

Edited January 12 by sfha

[sfha 27]

As an aside, I, and according to several posts in the forums others, have always been intrigued by the NCL's status.

It was formed as the NOS Junior League in 1896 and contained a mixture of Junior clubs and 'A' sides of senior clubs, similar to the setups in the south of Scotlland.

It was retitled as 2ndXI League in 1935... was this actually a response to the Scottish Junior FA's ruling on banning junior XIs associated with senior clubs? If the A sides had left there may have not been enough clubs to make the Association and League viable. A new NOS Junior League that formed at the time was questioned by the press who themselves deemed there weren't enough local Junior clubs to warrant 2 leagues.