New Careers Section

I'm pleased to announce the beta release of our new careers section. It has taken a lot of hardwork and while I think it's good, there are still many, many features to come, but I'll run through what's new now, so that you can all get started with the FM2013 Beta tomorrow.

Some of you may not read all of this, so I'll just say right now that I promise things haven't changed that much and if you want your career to just be a topic with posts just like on the old forums that is still an option. I am not forcing change on anyone, only offering more options. If you don't like a certain feature, just ignore it.

Okay onto the more detail:

What was the aim?
The main aim was to expand the careers, so it wasn't restricted to people writing walls and walls of text, with fictional stories and press items. While these were good and this site saw some of the best FM Careers ever written, it meant a lot of people were left out who didn't want to share their careers in that way.

So what we've done is added more ways for people to share their careers, without detracting from what we already had in place. So now you can share:

- A fictional story (just like before) except now the posts by the author/manager stand out even more between the comments.
- Short twitter style status updates
- Images only with your own gallery

What we've done is combine all of these, so that you don't need to choose how to do it, each update can either be a story post, status update, image or just a normal comment and it will all display in either a topic or a blog.

- Topic: just like before with each update or comment appearing ontop of one another, just like any other tic.

- Blog: with each update having its own page and separate comments.

You can get started in the new careers section here or keep reading for more info

Creating a career
This is very simple at the moment, you can list who you're managing and give your career a title. When the game is out we're going to let you select from a dropdown and your team's badge will appear throughout the career.



Updating your career
Once you've created your career you can update it with either a post, image, status or comment



Creating a post
Posts are for major updates detailing aspects of your game, or writing fictional stories and press releases.




Adding images
Images are quick screenshots detailing some aspect of your game. You can add as many as you like as well as add a title and description.




Adding status update
Status updates should be short snippets letting people know something about your game such as "Just won the premier league, will continue the story tonight".



Comments
You or other members can also add comments that will appear amongst your updates just like a topic



It all looks to messy!
You may be thinking this all looks a bit messy. But that's primarily because I'm just demonstrating each one to you. For instance if you only ever posted status updates it may wind up looking something like this:



Also if you really, really hate all of this and just want it back the way it was you can do so. Just never bother with the other features and only add comments:



Although I would recommend adding your updates as "posts" rather than a comment as it helps to separate out your updates from the mass of other comments from people reading your career.



More features
The following features will be out very soon, but are not stable enough for today's release.

- Auto import Youtube match highlights
- Auto import FM Achievements
- Auto import FM related twitter statuses
- Subscriptions allowing you to quickly see only the careers you're following
- Special gallery for seeing the latest screenshots people are sharing
- Special timeline showing the latest status updates from all careers
- Advanced stats allowing you to track the popularity of your career
- Easily find other people managing the same team as you, or in the same league.

Well done on this, good to see some changes that will really encourage people to post and add to the site.

Looks outstanding boss

You used my career for screenies.

You should probably change the link from the 'FM 2013 careers' from the archive to this new section

You've got an hour, otherwise I'm leaving.

Like everyone else said, It looks fantastic Rob!

Ive broken it

Looks good, but I created a 'topic' style career, yet people can't comment. I also can't edit my post, and also can't edit my title page post from my old career, so I have to create a title page all over again. I have to do it though, or my career will look shit. When will this improve?

Also, the bottom 'Action' tab, you can only access 2 options as 3 are blocked out from the bottom bar thing.

What may be confusing you is the fact that there's no comment box at the bottom. I did this so that people wouldn't automatically use it and would use the "action" dropdown instead e.g. you may mean to make a new post, but just add a comment instead.

I'm open to suggestions on how that could be improved.

Normal users see a comment box and can comment, you can comment via the "actions" dropdown menu.

By "comment" and "post" I mean the following:

Posts: Stand out more and take up the full width of the page.

Comments: Look just like comments in a normal topic.

Again if things are confusing i'm open to any suggestions

Is there anyway to edit a post and make the images central?

Damn its just dawned on me you can't edit your posts in the careers section. This is a massive mistake on my part I know and it will be corrected very, very soon.

Once it is added (literally asap) you will be able to edit it and fix the centralling issue.

Absolutely wonderful.

Liking it more and more now I understand it. Can't wait for an edit tool, and a delete post tool, so I can delete my first post in my career, and also edit my bad coding. Think I put [centre] twice not connected to something.

Just a few things - for careers, make a [centre] quick tab in the bar at the top ^

And, on the old forum, you could add multiple addon's like for example [ u ] [ b ] Football Manager 2012 [ b ] [ u ], just be clicking on the top option bar, but now you have to highlight the word each time you want to add another add on. Now, if you click away at the top bar, you get [ b ] Football Manager 2012 [ b ] [ u ] [ u ]. It would make it quicker and easier if you could do what you could do on the old forum. Apart from that, I am already liking the new setup. Change always takes time to get used to.

* for any retards out there ( I have noticed plenty on this site already), I used spacing to show Rob what I meant. Don't be a waste-of-sperm useless idiot and comment 'You have a space between letters, that is why it isn't working right derp derp derp'.

Matt Neil. Scout at Plymouth.

Thought he was a coach now?

What are you two talking about

Everyone can now edit their careers and delete updates just use the "My Career" link at the top.

Its broken, won't let me create a new career.

That's very helpful What does it say? What happens?

It should be fixed now I think (if I guessed the problem)

My story is only showing one page when I click the story, but when I click the last comment like it takes me to the second page that still had a page 1 at the top.

EDIT - its been fixed.

Not sure when you edited, but i've just fixed it really sorry for the inconvenience

Sorry

It gave me a blank white page after clicking submit. I'll try it again in a second.

Things which will add a bit to the careers forum

1) Multiple spoilers
2) Centring on the top bar
3) Ability to cross things out aswell

Just things which we used to have but not anymore

Crossing out works

crossed out

[s]crossed out[/s]

Centering can be done in one of two ways but you're right I should add it to the buttons.

[center]crossed out[/center]
[centre]crossed out[/centre]

And multiple spoilers seems to work, i'm not sure what you mean?

A spoiler in a spoiler

like:

[/spoiler]

It didn't work yesterday.

Yeah, if you could get the centre and crossed out options on the top bar, that would be much easier!

Also, when colouring writing, I don't know what I have to write to get that colour. I know that blue, red and the obvious ones work, but maybe a list needs to be put up somewhere to be able to choose a colour or something