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Sports fans love to debate the win, the loss, the big play, and the play that got away. Fans of the National Football League’s New England Patriots have a great, free community site in patriotsdaily.com where they can read all the latest news and commentary about their team, play armchair quarterback, and offer their thoughts on players, plays, coaching, and strategy.

Bruce Allen, founder of patriotsdaily.com, says they work hard to provide in-depth insight and commentary for Patriots fans.

“We preview upcoming opponents and we examine the keys to the upcoming game,” says Bruce. “We hand out grades on the previous game, and we like to have some fun by publishing a tailgating post for most home games and select away games. We usually have one or two opinion or current topic columns in the mix as well.”

Run purely by volunteer power, the site publishes daily during the Patriots’ season, and works hard to keep Patriot talk going in the off-season with near-daily posts and commentary. Jeremy Gottlieb does the popular Patriot report card after every game.

“Jeremy Gottlieb pulls no punches and tells it like it is when it comes to the state of the team and what they did and didn’t do this week,” says Bruce. “People love to second-guess the players and coach and see them get criticized when they come up short.”

With dozens of WordPress sites under his belt, Bruce is a self-confessed Automattic evangelist. Interested in protecting all the content at patriotsdaily.com, he was an early VaultPress adopter.

“I started using WordPress in May of 2005,” says Bruce. “I’ve probably started about 30 WordPress blogs since then. I’m something of an Automattic evangelist, encouraging people to use WordPress, WordPress.com, VaultPress, Akismet, Intense Debate, Gravatar, and After The Deadline to make their blogging experience easy and fun. I think I first heard about VaultPress on Twitter, and eagerly waited for it to open up to beta testers. I got my Golden Ticket in July of 2010.”

Of all the great content on patriotsdaily.com, Bruce says he loves the “buffet table” feature the best.

“Our mystery “chef” lays out a complete menu for game day, usually with food themed from the opposition city. He gives you precise directions on cooking the food, along with a comprehensive beer selection to accompany the meal, again, based around a specific theme, or genre of beer,” says Bruce. “His encyclopedic knowledge of domestic and foreign beer is mind-roasting. As the administrator, I love that the writers can compose their posts in WordPress, and save them for me to edit and post according to schedule. It sure beats having to email documents back and forth and make revisions that way.”

Bruce Allen’s patriotsdaily.com is one member of the growing VaultPress community. Learn more about how VaultPress can protect your content, theme, plugin, and site settings and customizations. Contact us with questions, or you could make our day, and sign up to protect your site.

Paul Boag is a writer and podcaster based in Hampshire, UK, who has been building websites since 1994. Paul founded Headscape, a web design agency in 2002. His favorite part of the job is the chance to work together with clients.

“Although many web designers complain about having to deal with clients, personally, working with clients is the most enjoyable part of my job,” says Paul. “Nothing is more satisfying to me than working alongside a client to turn their website into an effective business tool. I particularly enjoy working on e-commerce websites where the return on your hard work is so easily measurable.”

Paul is about to launch season three of The Boagworld Show, the longest-running podcast geared to web design and development. Paul’s focus for season three is client-centric design, which is also the subject of his impending book.

“Client centric design is essentially a new methodology for working with clients to produce truly exceptional websites,” says Paul. “The book and podcast will show web designers how to establish a good working relationship with their clients rather than see them as the enemy.”

Among his writing credits is The Website Owner’s Manual, a jargon-free guide to planning and managing a successful website project for business owners.

Paul writes prolifically about web design, web development, and web strategy on his personal site, boagworld.com. On WordPress since 2008, Paul was an early adopter of VaultPress.

“I can’t remember where I heard about Vaultpress, but I do remember signing up instantly. It solved a big concern that I had,” says Paul. “boagworld had become a crucial business tool for my web design company Headscape, and I couldn’t afford for it to be lost. Backing up the posts was not enough. I also wanted to back up all of the images associated with those posts, the theme I used, and the data being stored by various plug-ins. I also needed something that didn’t rely on me remembering to backup the website. Vaultpress did all of this and more. It was perfect for my needs.”

To learn more about Paul Boag, visit boagworld.com. You can check out his books and most popular talks. You can even hire him.

Paul Boag is one member of the growing VaultPress community. Learn more about how VaultPress can protect your content, theme, plugin, and site settings and customizations. Contact us with questions, or you could make our day, and sign up to protect your site.