Standard Features and Functions

Someone from your club is set-up as the website administrator. Typically this will be your club webmaster or membership secretary.

• Your website administrator is free to decide and update the structure and content of your website
  • Standard templates are available if required
  • Colour scheme, graphics and styling can be chosen or fully customised
• Your administrator is able to assign club members to groups that are setup with different view and edit permissions. For example:
  • Committee members might be set-up with the ability to edit a news page
  • Club coaches might be set-up to be able to edit and update an on-line training program
  • Your fixtures secretary might be set-up to maintain a fixtures list and results page
  • Your social secretary might be set-up to maintain the social calendar
• Some of your website maybe set-up to be viewable by the public and other content may be reserved for club members only. You simple decide and login to set the access permissions of each page (or even for each piece of content within your website pages).

Each page of your website can be setup to include any of a list of standard modules such as:

• Text, the most basic module which simply displays text and which can be updated online using an interactive text editor which allows you to style your content without knowing any HTML code or any programming language. It works a bit like a simplied version of Word. You can also embed photos and graphics in your text.
• Announcements, to capture and display your club news. All historic news is stored and you administrator configures how much of the most recent news to display.
• Forum, a fully featured discussion forum for club members to post and reply to messages. This module is also used to send email notifications to club members, for example from members of your club committee.
• Newsletter, to send newsletter emails to club members or any other defined group such as associate members.
• Blog, a place for club members to write match or race reports complete with photos
• FAQs, you enter a list of frequently asked questions with their respective answers for website users to click are read e.g. for a beginners guide to your sport or activity
• Events, a database of events that users can display in a calendar or as a list
• Feedback, to allow club members or site visitors to post messages e.g. for use as a comments form, a guest book or even a condolences page
• Links, a list of links to websites, pages on your website or files on your website e.g. results spreadsheets
• Documents, an online list and store of documents that can then be shared by your club members
• Gallery, an online photo gallery to store and display your club photos
• Media, a form for displaying photos or video content
• Reports, for standard club reports such as the membership database for your club secretary or a club members directory showing names, email addresses and phone numbers (typically setup to be only accessible by club members)
• Survey, to enable on-line surveys to quickly be created for feedback from your club members or voting on key issues such as for a club member of the year award (the overall results can either be displayed to club members or kept private to the survey creator)
• Users Online, shows a list and count of the club members currently logged into the web-site
• Whats New, shows a summary of the most recent updates to the website with links to the appropriate contant
• Wiki, to enable your club members to collobrate online in authoring a reference document such as a course guide or a glossary of techincal terms

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