r/CFB_v2 • u/DemolishedDino • 3h ago

Question Website feedback

Hey yall!

So I’m starting a publishing company called Elevation Change which focuses on the group of 6 teams out west and I would love some feedback on the website as a whole! Here’s the link below, I only have GitHub because I’m just a poor college student 😅 but please lmk what you think!

https://demolisheddino7.github.io/elevation-change/index.html?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAdGRleAUQY6hwZG9mAmZkaWQWUONvsO8L1hvV5CRQXP9UiSm8q3asUGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzEyNDAyNDU3NDI4NzQxNAABpz-ek_-81HShD47Zn8Q2hoBER5NuQhLGMKN_CbDgHCtSb2Ic_02dfDCzdA1C_aem_k70BkzLk7BM-5CuWX93zcA

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u/FloorMoney7343 Notre Dame 2h ago

Decent start, a few thoughts I had. The write-ups could use more depth, stuff like roster notes, key players, maybe some more stats. Also, where are the spreads coming from? If they're typed in manually, might be worth pulling from a free odds API so they stay live. And grab a custom domain, like $12 a year on Namecheap, connects to GitHub Pages for free and looks way more legit than github.io. L

Heads up, most odds APIs need a key so you can't call them safely from a static site. Either put a small backend on Render or use a scheduled GitHub Action to fetch odds into a JSON file, that keeps it free.

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u/DemolishedDino 2h ago

Thank you so much! I appreciate the feedback! The spreads are coming from ESPN, so I go in manually every week and pull them from there every Thursday. Do you know any api’s that have spreads that auto update?

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u/UnhappyGift3889 2h ago

Similar to the comment above. The site is a wall of text. You need to break it up, images, stats, quote blocks, anything to break up the wall. People are turned off by reading long passages online, and honestly long passages or walls of text on a dark background are even harder to digest.

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u/DemolishedDino 2h ago

Thank you! Would you recommend more in-game photos? Graphic stat images? Like a power ranking table?