Post your videos on Web Teams!

At Web Teams our thinking has always been to concentrate on providing great football related functionality. Where another company does something really well for example Google with their graphs, or Facebook with their posted links, we look to utilise their technology.

The clear leader on the web for videos is obviously YouTube.com. And YouTube.com allow you to embed their videos on any site.

At Web Teams we have now allowed you to embed YouTube.com videos on your site.

To add a video to your site you must first post it on YouTube.com.

A simple way of doing this is to video a bit of your match on your digital camera. Then use Windows Media Maker to make it into a WMV file. Then logon to YouTube.com and upload it to the web.

Once your video is live, you need to get the unique id from the YouTube URL. The screenshot below shows this. Note that the characters before the id are v=



Add this unique Id to your Web Teams news item. Click preview to check it is OK.



Your video is displayed on your Web Teams site!



Why not upload some of your videos from your games and then post a comment on this blog post so others can view them?

How many visitors?

Now that it is pretty much the end of the 2007/08 football season, it is with interest we look at our visitor statistics...



The team that attracted the most visitors to their home page was Boreham Wood from the Ryman Premier League. Their home page alone received over 48,000 unique visitors!

To put this into perspective. Only four Premiership stadiums could sit this many people (Old Trafford, The Emirate Stadium, St James, Stadium of Light). If this many people tried to fit into the City of Manchester Stadium there would be over 200 left over standing in the car park.



Boreham Wood also had the most hits for a match report (Boreham Wood 1 AFC Wimbledon 0 - 800 unique) and for a player (their top scorer Simon Thomas - 1,200 unique).

But other sites were most popular in other areas.

Redhill FC from the Sussex County League posted nearly 360 news items! This attracted over 15,000 unique visitors who read their news.

Over 2,000 unique visitors browsed the excellent photographs displayed on Romulus FC's website.



The fun fantasy stats where most popular on lower league team sites. 2,000 unique visitors flocked to see who had the most fantasy points on Shadforth Plough's website from the Durham Sunday League (4th division).

Across all of our team sites a combined total of nearly one million unique visitors visited Web Teams. Our web community continues to grow every year - please continue to tell others about us and we look forward to the 2008/09 season!

Most frequently asked Frequently Asked Questions

At Web Teams we pride ourselves on having a pretty good frequently asked questions help area. This saves time in people emailing us a question and waiting for an answer on something that's been asked many times before.

This help area can be found at:
http://www.webteams.co.uk/Help.aspx

...and what are our most frequently asked Frequently Asked Questions? Our visitor stats show the following interesting results:



1. What do I get for my £15.00?
This help page was viewed over 1,600 last season! In short the answers include (1) The best football stats for your team presented in the most professional way, (2) Absolutely NO adverts anywhere on your site, (3) End of season archive and the use of stats from previous season... [read full article]

2. What format must my pictures be in?
This is becoming a more common question now that digital cameras produce such large images. The image quality you need for a website is MUCH lower than if you wanted to print out a 10x8" quality photo. So before you upload a picture to the web it is best to resize it down a little... [read full article]

3. Can I add a discussion board to my site?
Web Teams has always had a strategy of concentrating on doing football related things perfectly (league tables, goal stats, team progress, player stats etc...) and leaving more generic things (lots of photos, discussion boards, visitor polls, online videos) to the multi-billion dollar sites that are huge. Our recommendation here is to set up a Facebook Group for your team in parallel to your Web Teams site. This is perfect for banter and daft photos and things and compliments your professional looking Web Teams football site. A more full blog post on this subject will be posted in the near future... [read full article]

4. I have just signed up, how can I edit my site?
Simple getting started question that most reading this blog already know the answer to... [read full article]

5. What happens to my site at the end of the season?
Web Teams offers the much valued archive feature, where a snapshot of your old site is stored at a new URL and the stats from these previous sites are used on your site for the new football season. [read full article]

We do have one or two emails this time of year about people wanting to change URLS we answered this question in the blog post below:
http://webteams.blogspot.com/2008/06/get-proper-domain-name.html

6. How do I get a proper domain name?
Related to the point above. [read full article/ read blog post]

7. A player has left my team, can I delete him from my site?
Yes, at the end of the season. During the season, you should mark against them that they have left the club. In their player details area you should say why they have left the club. This way all of the player statistics stay intact. [read full article]


Please email in any suggestions for future blog posts.

stephen@webteams.co.uk

Web Teams - Out of Office

From 8th June to 16th June there will be minimal email support from Web Teams. Coincidently both lads who run the service will be on holiday, and although I'll check in to make sure things are running fine on occasions, I'll not be doing much on email.

The most common enquiry currently is from those archiving who have teams whose names have changed. For example from webteams.co.uk/thequeenshead to webteams.co.uk/theblackbull - our advice here is to either:

1. Archive as normal, change your team name but buy a proper domain name:
http://webteams.blogspot.com/2008/06/get-proper-domain-name.html
or
2. Sign up for a new site and forget the old one

All other queries are pretty much always answered in our frequently asked questions area:
http://www.webteams.co.uk/Help.aspx

Thanks very much - enjoy Euro 2008 even though it's not the same without any of the home nations in it. Top 10 Euro Championship goals below. Add a comment to say which goal you think is the best (although it has to be Gazza or Van Basten really).

Get a Top Level Domain Name

Have you ever wanted a nice short and snappy domain name for your Web Teams site?

If your club is called Fulchester Town FC - then you could have the URL www.fulchestertownfc.co.uk and receive emails to manager@fulchestertownfc.co.uk

Three or four years ago, Web Teams used to offer this service. But we stopped doing it as you can get it so cheap elsewhere.

Two of the biggest hosting companies in the UK are www.fasthosts.co.uk and uk2.net.

With either of these companies you can get your proper domain name and access to a control panel for less than £10 a year.

A screenshot from each is below.

UK2


Fast Hosts


Note: This option is particularly useful if you originally signed up for your Web Teams site as webteams.co.uk/fulchesteru7s as an under 7s teams and are now an under 11s team - you could get the domain www.fulchesteryouth.co.uk and mask the Web Teams URL beneath this.

Disclaimer: Web Teams is not affiliated in any way with either www.fasthosts.co.uk or uk2.net, all support on web forwarding and domain names can be found on the site of the web hosting company you choose.