Website Development
Building and administering a fast, good looking, interactive website is not easy these days, as anyone charged with the task of looking after a voluntary football, cricket, rugby or any other type of club website knows all too well!
To be fair… building a static website like many of us have done in the past, hadn’t been too bad, but now you have to have Featured Sections with images that glide in and out, and you simply have to have some form of optional contact system for anyone and everyone that visits your site, but without taking year long courses on how to program in PHP, Javascript, MySQL (and who knows what else!), your website is going to get left behind, which means that your club is going to look out of date, decidedly un-dynamic, and rather than entice new players, volunteers and fundraisers in to your club…will simply drive them away!
So…what do you do?
The Beautiful Game is the solution you’ve been looking for. Unlike other ‘club websites’, it’s totally dynamic, which means that it has the interactivity to look cool and up-to-date, it has links at the bottom of every post and page that allow your visitors to bookmark that page or article with one simple click in their favourite social bookmarking application (vitally important these days as anyone who has been on to the likes of Facebook will testify).
Visitors can also subscribe to your posts via RSS (Really Simple Syndication), which means that you can get your news, views, requests for help and more, out directly to everyone who has an interest in your organisation, all cleanly and in one go, direct from Feedburner which is part of Google. We can also link to your Facebook or Twitter feeds if you have them, direct from the site.
What this means, is that your ’stakeholders’, the people that will be the future of your club, and…let’s face it, the people that will tell their friends, family and neighbours how good your club is (or not) by the level of interaction (or let’s call that care and attention) they receive, can go and do just that – tell everyone how up-to-date your club is, and they must care about the image of the club, which should mean that my child will do well here – you get the point!
Look at it another way…it’s unlikely that many of us would even enter a ramshackle hotel that is grotty and horrible, regardless of the fact that inside it may be five star luxury. But make your hotel look like that hotel in Dubai that is designed to look like a sail, and people will enter just to see what it’s all about – does that make sense?
But getting people and players into your club is only one side of the equation. Voluntary organisations have to be able to find, sign-up and then support good paying sponsors. Once again, no self respecting business person is going to want to be associated with an organisation that portrays their company image as one that is not forward thinking, dynamic etc…
Other so-called ‘club websites’ will give you a small section for sponsors, but it’s up to you (or some other volunteer) to try and format images. Forget about text and any promo because you simply can’t add any! All these sites are for, is to generate advertising commissions for the provider. And here’s another thing…go onto any of these ‘do-it-yourself’ club sites and count how many age groups actually do anything – any club with over half their age groups completed is doing really well…it’s just too much hassle for most people.
Here’s a solution that may be just what you’re looking for…
By partnering with The Beautiful Game, you get the latest web standards website, continually updated to ensure your site complies to the latest requirements (such as accessibility), highly optimised for search engine recognition – vital for getting your club on top of the natural search engine rankings, but most importantly…we administer it for you!
- Hassle free, dynamic website
- Highly interactive, allowing you easy and vital communication with your stakeholders
- Revenue generating sponsor area
- Optimised for search engine recognition
- Archive section for all your articles
- Video ready if you require.
- and much, much more…
OK, so what’s the cost we hear you ask!
Well, believe it or not, you can have one of our sites, fully functional and administered by us for nothing…zilch…nada! Click here to go to the Contact Us page, and we’ll be glad to send you a proposal that will give you all the options.
Oh…one last thing – if you are thinking of having The Beautiful Game produce a website for you, bear in mind that due to the fact that our sites are so far ahead of anything else that’s out there, we are only able to work with one club in each sport in any area. If everyone had one, your site would look the same as your competitors and what’s the point in that, so if you are interested, don’t hang about, contact us now!
