If you haven’t noticed (although, it’s kind of hard to miss), I’ve been sort of MIA the past month. Now, there are plenty of reasons for that – the up and down, ulcer-inducing roller coaster that is the playoffs, the papers I’ve had to write for my classes, studying for finals, all that jazz. But the biggest reason why I haven’t updated is why I’m posting today – a little project I call Pokecheck.

You see, I’m in AHIS001 here at USC, which is a web design course for non-majors. For our final project, we had to make a functional 15+ page site using the concepts that we’ve learned during the course of the semester. I’ve been wanting to create a guide to hockey for a while now, but the task seemed a bit daunting for something that I would do in my free time (it ended up being 43 pages). So I decided to not do the photo gallery-type site that most of my classmates are doing, and instead make something functional and worth the time that I put in.

And thus, Pokecheck was born. It’s a guide to hockey with a major emphasis on the NHL, but not overlooking the other leagues in North America and around the world. I’m not going to pretend it’s a be-all, end-all guide to hockey – it’s not. I can already think of a dozen things that I want to add to it, like the playoff beard suggestion @dlow_twit suggested to me over twitter, or a larger explanation of college hockey. And that will come soon (after finals, of course).

You can get to it either by clicking on the banner, or going to the link that I’ve put up on the top of every page here at Fools and Sages. Comments or suggestions are welcome – especially for the NHL teams section. I found out just how much I didn’t know about other teams by trying to write about all of them, haha.

So, check it out, enjoy, and hopefully you learn something.