Home Page
The Home Page Editor is a robust text editing utility which offers a great deal of flexibility. Your text is posted on your Home Page into the design template used for the rest of the site.
If you prefer not to use the Home Page Editor, the main content area allows a great deal of flexibility for a webmaster to post current club news. Macromedia Dreamweaver is the recommended software to work within the Home Page template.

Calendar
This is a very simple, yet powerful tool for listing club-wide dates. On the back end is an intuitive form to enter a date and the calendar item. The rest is automatic. Items sort by date on the public calendar page, and disappear when the date passes.

About
Typical who we are, where we’ve been, what’s in store for the club, etc.

Contact Page
Officers
Coordinators
Coaches
Since these are listed in the database, and updated every season, producing a page with current contact information is a good idea.

Team Pages
Where players and parents go for information about their team.

Team News
Coaches can post dated, or undated messages to the team. Excellent tool for real time communication when the whether is bad and a coach must decide whether or not to have a practice. Can also be used as a team’s personal calendar by posting dates of tournaments, and special events. This increases traffic at the site, making it easier for officers and coordinators to share club-wide news on the Home Page and in the Club Calendar.

Practice Schedule
Coaches post a weekly practice schedule. Flexible enough that a coach could keep the team informed of a changing schedule.

Full Club Practice Schedule
Provides a visual reference of when and where every team in the club has practice. This is a compilation of data from the Team Pages.

Referee Schedule
Lists home games for which the club is responsible to provide a referee. Assigned refs are listed by an ID code to maintain some anonymity

Fields
Fields data is important to building schedules. Listed by club, shows aerial view, provides map and directions. Hub access will mean all connected will share a database of fields.

Laws
Laws governing youth soccer which do not change much.

Rules & Guidelines
Each division has its own set of specifics, and items like the Romp Rule might reside here. At the club level, a coordinator would be responsible to maintain division rules & guidelines through the Admin Area. Hub connection means league coordinators will be able to post rules & guidelines for divisions, keeping all those connected up-to-date with the latest info from the central database.

Volunteer
Static means this page is not built upon info from the database. However, an online form may be here to let volunteers post their desire to help.

Links
A couple of ways to do this. In one scheme, links may be administered by club officers. Another idea is to allow everyone with back end access (coaches, coordinators, etc.) to add links, and list who contributed the link, and when.

FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions

Schedules
When a hub is up and running, league schedulers will post data at the central database which will be picked up by club sites. Each team schedule page is dynamically built from the database showing division, team name, and coaches name (click coaches name for email without showing address). If the site is not connected to a hub, or for in-house divisions, pages are built the same way except the source is a local database.

Sign up
Static means this page is not built upon info from the database. It may contain all necessary information, and a recommendation is to provide links to downloadable forms in PDF.

Admin Area

Schedule Builder: Intuitive interface displaying a list of teams within the division to choose home and away, date, time, and a list of fields.

Users: The site administrator creates usernames and passwords for access with various levels controlling privileges to functions within the Admin Area.

Full Info on Players: Player information is kept in a familiar contact record format. This allows for full management as team rosters are created. Check boxes in the player’s record identify pending, paid, active, and archived, as well as whether or not the player is visible in the public area of the site.

Team Pages: Coaches are given a password allowing limited privileges in the Admin Area. A coach logs in to see the team(s) they coach. This is where Team News and Practice Times are entered. There is also a dynamic Team Contact Report ready for printing so that coordinators do not need to hand a printed version to every coach.

Referee Management: Referee Coordinator builds a contact list of refs. When the club schedule is posted, the Coordinator simply chooses from a drop-down menu whom to assign to each home game.

Administrative Positions: Create, sort and maintain officers and coordinator positions.
Officers/Coordinators: Fill administrative positions.
Divisions (planned hub connection): Hub connection means a list of divisions open for league play will come from the central database. In lieu of hub access, an editor is here to create, sort and maintain divisions.

Teams (planned hub connection): Hub connection means when a team is created here, it goes to the central database as an application for registration with the league. The editor provides an interface to name teams in available divisions, and automatically numbers multiple teams in a division.

Coaches: Set up coach information.

Coach Roster: Assign coaches to teams.

Fields (planned hub connection): Presents a form to enter basic location info, aerial photo, map and direction URLs. Hub connection means all connected to a hub share a database of fields.

Reports: Many ways to round up data on different areas of administration.
Users
Coaches
Divisions
Teams
Schedules
Fields
Players — includes a Custom Report with a criteria-based search function Rosters — includes individual teams or entire club Referee Referee Schedule — includes by referee or full schedule