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paul_r
19th February 2006, 09:00 PM
Vi Sport has introduced a free website service for amateur sports clubs, teams, and their governing bodies.

It's FREE, it's easy, and you can be online very quickly.

Who is it for?
Initially, amateur sports clubs, teams and Governing bodies in almost any sport. If you're interested in the scheme you can apply HERE (http://www.podium4sport.com/free-website-application-form/), or if you just want more information contact us via the online 'Contact Us' form HERE (http://www.podium4sport.com/contact-us/).

What do you get?
Everything you need to get your website online quickly and easily - even if you know nothing about websites now. We provide you with an empty website, plus easy to use programs that will put your content into it for you. We also provide comprehensive Help pages and online video tutorials to help you through the whole thing. It doesn't matter if you have no idea how websites work. We provide all the programs you need to get your website online in hours. If you can sketch what you want each page to look like on a piece of paper, you'll be able to recreate it on your website in no time. (If you're still not sure ask a 13-year-old from your team to do it - you'll be online in a couple of hours!) The templates provided ensure your site will work first time, AND look professional.

You will also be able to set up and use deicated email accounts for your club, e.g. coach@ballywotsitFC.org etc. Adds that professional touch to your team communications.

Once you have the basics working you can go back and add/edit/delete content as often as you like.

Don't need all that help? Maybe you already have some web knowledge, or an existing site and want the freedom to do your own thing. No problem ... we give you a user friendly control panel for your website and you can do whatever you like with it (subject to some basic and obvious conditions relating to content!).

Video tutorials and text help are available >>HERE<< (http://www.podium4sport.com/p4s/sys/)

How do you find out more?
Contact us using the online 'Contact Us' form HERE (http://www.podium4sport.com/contact-us/). Tell us who you are, what team/club you represent, and how we can get in touch with you.

Is it really free? Are there any costs?
The only cost you may need to incur is to register a domain name for your club/team if you don't already have one. There is no other cost. If you don't have a domain name yet you can buy the domain from any provider you like. THIS (http://www.ourdomainsite.com/) one has .com, .org, .net, or .co.uk domains for £10 per year, and your domain will automatically be set up to point at the correct webserver. If domains are new to you that just means you fill in the online form with name and address details, pay by credit card, and that's all you have to do.

paul_r
19th February 2006, 09:03 PM
Build trust and pride in your team/club; let people (including parents) find out something about you so they know what you do and when you do it; make key information available to your members 24/7/365. These are just some of the benefits of having your own website now that most people have access to the web. Typical content pages include ...

About us: tell people about your team/club/organisation. Encourage new members. 24/7 x 365 days a year.
Contact details: make it easy for people to get in touch with you, especially potential new members. Keep the phone numbers up to date. Provide an online form for people to contact you or show your email addresses and phone numbers.
Email: create your own personalised email addresses for key people.
News: keep everyone up to date with what's happening. Even those who can't turn up every week want to know what's going on. Post your fixtures and team lists and vastly reduce the phoning round to tell everyone when and where they're playing. Better still - reduce those calls on a Friday night from players who forget if they have a game tomorrow!
Photo albums: put those pics up there for everyone to see.
Downloads: for all those documents people need - Registration forms, Rules, Health and Safety guides, training routines, Insurance forms ... and more. Once they're on the site anyone can download them whenever they need them (i.e. whenever they lose the last set you gave them!). And you can keep the latest version up there so that everyone has the correct documents, not those dog-eared ones they got 5 years ago.... and more. Whatever you want to communicate to your members and potential members - the web is today's way to do it. Build your own site if you wish, or start with one of the templates provided. The templates have blanks of all the key pages already there for you to fill in your own details.

Sponsors: having an active website helps attract sponsors as it gives them more opportunities to promote their brand. It's easy to add their logo to your site, linked back to their own site.

hertfordhr
14th November 2007, 02:56 PM
Paul

'We have recently taken on a free 'Webpage/site' and we are finding it a hair puller, can you let me know if we can cut and paste from word or excel files (clubs fixtures) otherwise we will be pulling our hair out even more. Especially as we have to type all in manually!

If we choose to abandoned the idea can we take our domain away and use elsewhere should we have to.........: O (

Maureen

paul_r
23rd November 2007, 11:08 AM
Yes, you can cut and paste ok. Create the box first then cut from anywhere (Word etc.) and paste the test in.

Yes, of course you can move the domain away - the domain is yours and you can host it where you like. However, if you persevere you should get to grips with the sitebuilder fairly quickly. Use the Help section here, and within the sitebuilder (bottom left of the sitebuilder screen). There are also video tutorials HERE (http://www.podium4sport.com/p4s/sys/)

rosemtrec
3rd August 2008, 08:52 PM
Paul,
Having used Site Builder to create a site which we have used for a year now, I would like to upload a new pre-prepared site in its place. The new site was created using asp.net/C# in visual studio. I am finding it hard to get it uploaded though, do you have any advice or is this even allowed?
Thanks

paul_r
4th August 2008, 12:17 AM
You're certainly allowed to upload your own site - the sitebuilder is just an option for anyone who doesn't have the facitity to build a site themselves.

I'm not 100% sure about asp.net, as I'm not an expert. Our server is Linux, but asp.net is a Windows technology. I think asp.net CAN run of a Linux server but it may require some 3rd party software to allow it to happen ... I'll check.

When you say it's hard to upload ... what's happening exactly?

rosemtrec
4th August 2008, 12:18 PM
Theres an option in Visual studio called 'Publish web site' which allows the uploading of the created site to the desired location. After uploading, and navigating to the homepage there is just a browser error.
Maybe I am approaching it wrongly, can you maybe confirm the process that should be used and the location to upload to?
Thanks

paul_r
4th August 2008, 08:37 PM
Bad news I'm afraid. The server tech says there is no reliable way to run .net on a Linux server. Sorry.