Stats from Previous Seasons

WebTeams user Ben emailed in asking if it's possible for player stats from previous seasons to be added to a WebTeams site.

At a basic level it is possible to add any additional information to a player in the description field.

However, once you use WebTeams for a second season you'll notice that the stats from the previous seasons are not lost - but your site gets richer in terms of data each season.

The screenshot below shows a player profile page showing stats from this season and the previous season.

Web Teams into its Third Decade!

Happy New Year to everyone.

We are very proud to now take Web Teams into its third decade.

We started in the "90's", grew through the "noughties" and are now happy to look forward to the "tens" (or "teenies"?).


Web Teams trial site in 1999.

Web Teams looking great on your Mobile

I've been playing about on my Ipod Touch looking at Web Teams and have made a few adjustments to the low graphics page.

The font size is now bigger so it is more readable in both portrait and landscape mode...





Of course, the normal site is fine when you zoom in and out in normal mode on an Iphone/Ipod too...

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year from Web Teams

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to everyone visiting Web Teams. We wish your team all the very best for 2010!!!

Stand Out Fixture

Dan from Tipton Town emailed in suggesting that the list of fixtures should have their own page.

We had a think about this and agreed.

So...

There is a new menu option on the left hand side of the page:

The latest fixture is displayed in your main news area of your homepage:

Clicking on either of the links will take you to the fixtures page:

Get the most out of Web Teams

The Web Teams blog has been going for a little while now and we have posted more than 50 articles.

This is our main method of communicating to all of you that run Web Teams sites.

For those of you that aren't that familiar with blogs, you may wish to read the tips below. They will help you get the most of Web Teams.

1. Searching
To find blog posts of interest to you simply type in a search term and click to search.

For example, try "mobile" for stories on how to get Web Teams on your mobile phone:



2. Labels
Two the right of the blog you can click on a topic that interests you. You will see all posts about that topic.

For example, click "new development" to read all of the posts on recent developments to Web Teams:


3. Posts you may have missed
Here are a pick of 4 or 5 of our many blog posts...

• Improvements to your Home Page - read about little changes we make to the site to keep on improving the service.
  
  
• Google Map on your Site - embed the fabulous Google Maps tool within your site.
  
  
• Customer Survey 08/09 - Results - read about what our thousands of users think of us.
  
  
• Another Fund Raising Case Study - find out how you can easily make your website make money for your team.
  
  
• Go Go Web Teams Gadget! - you like Windows Vista or Google gadgets? - download the Web Teams Gadget for your site.

4. Get the blog content elsewhere
You can add the Google Web Teams Blog gadget to your Google home page:

You can get the Web Teams Blog content within your RSS reader of choice:

5. Comment on the blog posts

If you have an opinion on any blog post - let us have your feedback - it only takes 10 seconds to add a comment and you can share your thoughts with the rest of the Web Teams community.

Web Teams Continues NonLeagueZone.com Support

Web Teams have continued their support to the popular non-league football forum NonLeagueZone.com.

A team of six or seven dedicated non league football fans run this super community with almost 10,000 members!

Stephen from Web Teams used to be a bit of a contributor to the Northern League section of this site back in the late 1990s when involved with teams such as North Shields, Prudhoe Town and Dunston Fed.

Over the last year or two Web Teams helps with the running costs of this site and are delighted to continue to do so for the 2009/10 football season. In return, Web teams gets a banner advert at the top.

If your team or league is involved in the UK non-league pyramid and you want a discussion forum that is part of a wider community - please go to NonLeagueZone.com and get in touch with one of the moderators.

Web Teams Goes Video Crazy!

Just over a year ago we allowed YouTube videos to be added to your Web Teams match reports and news items.

http://webteams.blogspot.com/2008/06/post-your-videos-on-web-teams.html

Flicking through many Web Teams team sites over the weekend, I noticed that loads of sites now do this.

All digital cameras have video functionality these days and it seems many of you take video clips on the side lines, upload them to YouTube and then embed them in your Web Teams sites. Some of you even make nicely edited movies with background sound tracks and titles (presumably using Windows Movie Maker).

Flicking through the first 15 or 16 sites I came across I found the following 4 videos...

St. James AFC

http://www.webteams.co.uk/NewsItems.aspx?team=stjamesafc#id10

Centre AFC

http://www.webteams.co.uk/NewsItems.aspx?team=centreafc#id19

Hafod Ranger AFC

http://www.webteams.co.uk/MatchReport.aspx?team=hafodrangersafc&mid=match33.xml

Norton Sports

http://www.webteams.co.uk/NewsItems.aspx?team=nortonsportsfc#id51

Improvements to your Home Page

The improvements to your home page outlined below will go live soon. As always, please let us know your thoughts!


Before


...and after

What are the key differences:

• The latest news item has a snippet of its content on your front page. This gives your site visitors more of a "teaser" of what the story is about and encourages them to click through and read it.
  
  
• The latest match also has a snippet of content now on your home page.
  
  
• The titles of these two main stories are in larger text and bold - again drawing your visitors attention.
  
  
• The player/staff pictures on the front are now the relevant individuals mentioned in the news item or gaining the player of the match. This means you're not seeing the same old faces always on the home page.
  
  

Remember, to keep your home page looking really good - try and add a new news item each week and make sure you add at least one paragraph as a match report when you enter your latest result.

Bohemian Rhapsody on the Danny Baker show

From last year, but quite funny. The version of Bohemian Rhapsody on the Danny Baker show where Freddie's lyrics are replaced with random footballer names...



I see a little silhouetto of a man
FACEY BA LYTTLE SILVA ETO HUTH HAMANN

Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?
DIARRA BRUCE DIARRA BRUCE BRILL KANU HAMANN BRANCO

Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening me
YOUNG KERR HOULT SAND BRIGHT KING VIEIRA VIERI FREI LING LEE

Galileo, galileo
BAILEY MAYO

Galileo, galileo
BAILEY MAYO

Galileo figaro-magnifico
BAILEY MAYO FIGO LAW HAGI ZICO