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How to Make a Sports Website for your Team or League
How to Make a Website for your Sports Team, League or Organization
Having a website to effectively communicate with players, fans, and sometimes even the parents of players is an absolute necessity in the 21st Century. There's no easier way to publish and access important information on a daily basis than via a website.
Getting a functional, informative website that is beneficial to your organization up and running is no small undertaking. Maintaining it offers it own challenges.
Before you create and maintain a website, there's several tasks to consider:
- How will you create and maintain your website?
- Where will you host your website?
- Purchasing and managing your Domain - which company is the "right" domain company?
- Getting exposure for your website - how will people find our website?
- Fixing technical issues - what if something goes wrong?
It is not impossible to build your own website from scratch, but the process goes far beyond simple DIY.
| Creating and Maintaining a Website |
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There's a few options out there to create and maintain a website:
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| Hosting Your Website |
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One of the most important decisions you'll make for your website is where and how you will have it hosted. Website hosting is storing your website on a server that is shared on the internet for visitors to view.
Typically, this would be done on a large, secure server with a website hosting company. There's going to be vital information on your website that your visitors are counting on being able to view, so it is crucial to have a reliable company hosting your website.
If you decide to create your own website, every time you make a change - like adding a score to a game, or a new phone number for a player - you'll need to re-upload your website to the server every time. If you use a sports website builder like HTO, your changes are uploaded immediately. |
| Buying and Managing your Domain |
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Owning your own domain is like owning real estate on the internet. Your domain will be the quickest way to get your players, parents, and fans to your website. To obtain your own domain, you need to register it with an ICANN-accredited Domain Registrar.
When you register a domain, you'll need to be sure you read and understand all of the fine print and extra services you may be purchasing to make sure you're not purchasing anything you're not aware of or do not want. You'll also need to manage and update your domain's forwarding, your domain's masking, keep up with it's renewal, be aware of transfers, and maintain any emails.
It's not an impossible task to manage your own domain services, but when you're also doing everything else for your website, coaching a team, organizing a family, handling your "day job", etc. it can be challenging. |
| Getting Exposure for Your Website |
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Competition in sports today isn't just about what's happening on the courts and fields - everyone is looking for that edge to get their team or organization recognized on the internet.
To put your site on the map, you'll need to start by learning and understanding SEO so that you can get your website picked up by search engines like Google. Then, you'll need to work on raising the ranking of your website so that it appears first when people are looking for a team in your sport.
There are specific requirements you'll need to meet to ensure the likelihood of your website being recognized before other websites such as having a good title, relevant content, and solid keywords. The process takes a lot of time and energy to accomplish, especially if you do not have a large budget to pay to be among the top returns. |
| Fixing Technical Problems |
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Creating and maintaining your own website from scratch means that you'll need to be prepared for inevitable technical problems from programming errors to server malfunctions. You'll need to know how to troubleshoot and resolve issues covering a wide variety of technical expertise.
Hiring a dedicated webmaster could help alleviate programming errors, but then you're looking at hunting down your webmaster and hoping they have time in their schedule to fit your website in.
You'll also still have to deal with server issues. |
If this aplies to you...
- You are not a computer programmer
- You have limited spare time
- You do not have a budget for a Sports IT Department
- You want a professional looking website anyway
.... Then using a sports website builder is probably your best option!
Whoa. That was a lot of info. There's got to be a better solution for creating and maintaining a sports website. Consider a using a sports website template instead:
HomeTeamsONLINE Sports Website Builder:
A dynamic website template that manages your information by making simple changes is ideal for sports teams and organizations. Let's face it: your info needs constant updating. Schedules need to be published, player and coach profiles need to be updated, registration info needs to be distributed, fees need to be collected - it's often never ending.
For nearly 20 years, HomeTeamsONLINE has offered dynamic sports websites with the features busy coaches, parent volunteers, athletic directors, booster clubs, and players need. Easily create and maintain informative and professional-looking websites from anywhere you have access to the internet - including from your phone!
Spend a few minutes after the game to add your scores and enter the stats and your website will automatically update the Standings, the Stats page, your Player Profiles, the Stat Leaders, and the Scores/Stats for each game. We've solved the problem of Creating and Maintaining Your Website with templates that let you build a website with as much or as little detail as your organization needs.
Sports organizations who's websites are hosted on our servers inherit the credibility that took nearly two decades for HTO to accomplish and gives your website instant increased exposure. We'll help you establish your Domain, make sure the settings are correct and automatically index your website with search engines like Google and Bing.
Our expert Tech Support team is here to help! Backed some of the most experienced developers in the sports website industry, you'll have a lineup of industry specialists at your disposal to help make sure your website is always at it's best.
HTO Sports Website Packages:
| Rookie: FREE! |
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| ProStyle: $75 includes Rookie level features + |
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| All-Star: $150 includes ProStyle and Rookie level features + |
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| Champion: $250 includes All-Star, ProStyle, and Rookie level features + |
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Sign up for a free 30-day trial and start taking advantage of all of the features and benefits offered by HomeTeamsONLINE - your website could be up and running today!
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** Single-Team pricing. See our pricing for multi-team/league pricing.
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