Make Your Website Earn Your Club Money!

You have a Web Teams site, all of the players and fans visit it, how can you make the website earn your club money???

Well earlier this year we were alerted to the excellent easyfundraising.org.uk website (click logo below).



All you have to do is register your football club with their site and then whenever your players/fans shop online, up to 15% of the value of their spend comes back to your club.

Here's a link to one of their press releases on the reputable website fundraising.co.uk
http://www.fundraising.co.uk/news/2008/05/08/easyfundraising-website-raises-over-%C2%A3350000

Here's a link to register your club and get started:
http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk

In terms of the names of some of the retailers involved, here's a quick list:

• Amazon.com
• JohnLewis.com
• Dell.com
• Argos.co.uk
• HMV.com
• Play.com

If you can get 10 people (yourself included) to push 5% of an average £500 annual online spend through your club then that could be a cheque for £250.

You can promote the EasyFundraising idea through a news item on your site and of course your site links and site sponsor areas.





Update (10th November)

Check out a couple of Case Studies for sites using this idea:
- Fundraising Case Study

A Permanent Fixture?

We have had 7 or 8 users telling us that they have been having problems adding fixtures to their Web Teams site in the last couple of months.

Pretty much all of these reports are from users with aol.com email addresses.

It looks pretty likely that the AOL version of the web browser was not happy for some reason with our Add Fixtures site admin page. (Technical note: pretty certain this was a security clamp down on the window.showModalDialog method).

So now we have changed the Add Fixtures page so that you enter your fixtures inline within the single page. When you are happy with what you have added, you click Submit. The screenshots below show this in action.

As this page is now pretty new, please report any unusual behaviour to us:
support@webteams.co.uk

Back to School

To get to where Web Teams is today we've had good ideas and some not so good ideas.

One area of Web Teams that we worked on a few years back was the "fun" area.

Banana Football in particular was a success and for a few months got some good world wide publicity.


Play Banana Football Now!

One game however that sadly didn't ever see the light of day was Web Sums...

...until today!

The idea was to wrap up the classic Little Professor computer game from 1980 that the Blog Editor used to play as a 6 year old... and put a modern spin on things with a comedy Wayne Rooney cartoon face.


Play Web Sums Now!

For those with kids, it isn't a bad little game to get them to do a bit of maths, And for those big kids, come and have a go if you think you're clever enough.

The Blog Editor can do a sub 8 second time on basic addition and a sub 20 second time on advanced multiplication (and that is with 13x14 thrown in).