Setting up a basic club website

[19thagain]

As the heading says I am looking to set up a very basic website for my club mainly for the use of club members as opposed to 'selling' the club.

No requirement for course layout or tee booking facility BUT must be low cost to set up and low ongoing costs ( we just balance our books each year with little left over) but I think the members need a closer relationship with the club and this new site could help.

I am always amazed at the amount of help that comes from the forum members on here so I hope my club can benefit from forum members past experiences on this subject matter.

 

[philly169]

You could look at a number of template sites available or content management sites like Joomla, they will allow you to easily edit certain bits of the webpage without editing the rest.

Companies like 1&1 now do template websites you just choose the colour, header and content.

Its very surprising that there arent more templates around, a lot of sunday and saturday football teams use a site called clubwebsite.co.uk and just link their domain to it, they add all the specifics of the club and hey presto..

I do sometimes think it could be a little money spinner to create a golf website content management site.

 

[philly169]

in fact: http://www.golfclubnetwork.co.uk

 

[needmoreclub]

Try www.webs.com our clubs website was created from the site FOC.

 

[DappaDonDave]

You could also use Wordpress, it's free and you'd be able to set it up like a blog in some pages to allow for comments and updates to be added with very little effort

 

[Basher]

I made a forum and website.
Check out the links on my signature.
The forum is quite busy for a local job.

 

[hamshanker]

Try www.webs.com our clubs website was created from the site FOC.

+1 for webs,

ive just set it up for our society this year and once you play around the site its easy to use and design....
Things ive put on it are,players and h/caps,results of weekly games,calender with arranged courses and times,pic page,league table and links page for courses,and can add more pages if anymore ideas come up through the season..

 

[bigslice]

we are looking into this aswell, but if you find out which handicap software that you use. they may have another program our website that your members can log onto for info

 

[Tiger]

Another shout for blog sites. The thing with sites like Blogger and Wordpress is that people are continually writing plug-ins so you can quite easily add local weather, Twitter updates feed, Flickr links etc. There are a load of templates out there where you can minimise the blog feeds and focus on images or static items. With a little tweaking you can use modify these templates to suit your club. I knew nothing of HTML but with a little trial and error built my old blog from a template http://rub-of-the-green.blogspot.com

You can also buy and register a custom URL and direct people to your club that way so they visit www.yourgolfclub.co.uk

Good luck with it

 

[thecraw]

Try www.webs.com our clubs website was created from the site FOC.

Can you add photos etc onto that site?

 

[hamshanker]

Can you add photos etc onto that site?

yes ya can add photos,ive got some on ours....

 

[needmoreclub]

Can you add photos etc onto that site?

Craw, have a look at Kilbirnie GC website, thats from freewebs.com

 

[jp5]

As the heading says I am looking to set up a very basic website for my club mainly for the use of club members as opposed to 'selling' the club.

No requirement for course layout or tee booking facility BUT must be low cost to set up and low ongoing costs ( we just balance our books each year with little left over) but I think the members need a closer relationship with the club and this new site could help.

I am always amazed at the amount of help that comes from the forum members on here so I hope my club can benefit from forum members past experiences on this subject matter.

I've dropped you a PM, may be of some interest.