Category: New Features
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New Page for Arena Photos from Outside of North America
We’re pleased to announce a new page called Arena Photos from Outside of North America. This is where we will keep photos that contributors send us of arenas that don’t currently exist in the RinkAtlas arena directory. The first two photos on this page are from The SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland. They were taken…
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RinkAtlas is Rolling Out Arena Statistics
We’re pleased to announce that RinkAtlas is rolling out statistics about arenas in our directory. Right now, the statistics we’re providing are as follows: Seating Capacity Ice Dimensions Opening Date (in cases where we do not know the exact opening date, we list the opening date as January 1 of the opening year) These statistics…
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RinkAtlas Search Improved for Arenas in French-Speaking Areas of Canada
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added information to the directory entries for arenas in the French-speaking areas of Canada to allow RinkAtlas users to search according to the city and arena names as they are typically spelled in either French or English. This means that arenas like “Aréna de Bernières Saint-Rédempteur” in Saint-Rédempteur, Québec can…
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RinkAtlas Helps You Find Good Coffee Near Over 2,100 Arenas in North America
One comment we’ve heard since the new version of RinkAtlas launched is that the restaurants that are listed by RinkAtlas are often not open at breakfast time. So, we added a “Coffee” category, which allows you to find restaurants serving coffee and/or breakfast near each arena. We chose to illustrate how the new Coffee Listing…
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RinkAtlas Supports Social Bookmarking Through “Bookmark & Share” Toolbar Button
RinkAtlas now supports social bookmarking through our “Bookmark & Share” button on the toolbar. This feature allows you to bookmark rink locations in Digg, Del.icio.us, Facebook, MySpace, and about 30 other sites. This feature is made possible through AddThis, a company that specializes in social network integration tools. AddThis is a local company in my…
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Introducing Ajax Auto-suggestion for the RinkAtlas Search Box
I’ve just added an auto-suggestion feature to the RinkAtlas search box. If you start typing the name of a rink, the name of a city, or a zip or postal code, RinkAtlas will search its database and show you a dynamically-generated list of search suggestions. You can either choose one of the suggestions or continue…
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RinkAtlas Blog Theme Upgraded
I’ve put some effort over the last twelve hours into improving the appearance of The RinkAtlas Blog. I did this because I connected the blog to the front page of RinkAtlas.com for the first time. I feel strongly that the user interface of the entire RinkAtlas website should be as consistent as possible. I hope…
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New RinkAtlas Logo Completed
I developed a new logo for RinkAtlas today. You can see it below: I added a face-off circle to the left side of the logo, and removed the “.com” from the end of RinkAtlas. I think this improves the user experience a bit by making the site look a little more professional and finished. I…
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RinkAtlas Introduces City / State Search and Zip Code Search
A few days ago my friend Matt Leaf from USA Hockey suggested that RinkAtlas needed additional search capabilities for times when our customers didn’t know the name of the rink they were trying to locate. I know that when I played youth hockey years ago we had this problem at least once. My team scheduled…