Easiest way to create a sports team website

robfosters · 23 Feb 2018 at 19:27

whats the easiest way for a complete novice to build a website for a sports team?

I’ve been tasked with setting up a website for my pool team. It will be a basic site with pages like schedule, results, squad, league table.

Is there an idiot proof way of setting this all up and maintaining it for minimal cost?

touch · 23 Feb 2018 at 20:55

Easiest way would be to use a website builder, something like WIX or squarespace or lots of hosting companies have their own version (1and1, godaddy, etc).
Very much idiot-proof.

You'd be looking at a few quid each month for hosting and maybe a £10-£30 upfront cost for the domain name.

robfosters · 23 Feb 2018 at 21:22

Thanks, I’ll take a look. I can’t be doing with all the proper web builders like dreamweaver, just need something easy that I don’t need to spend hours learning.

antijoke · 24 Feb 2018 at 10:49

WordPress

But a nice theme (enter your pages and then Roberts your fathers brother).

mid_gen · 1 Mar 2018 at 13:58

Tried pitchero? I know a lot of rugby clubs use it..

koooowweeee · 2 Mar 2018 at 13:25

Sorry to hi-jack your thread rob but I'm also wanting to make my own basic site.

A few years ago (6 ish) I built a website using a idiot proof template thingy. It was totally free for the first year then £18 of the second. Do they still have free web building and hosting sites like this ?

How did you get on @robfoster

koooowweeee · 2 Mar 2018 at 16:15

nvm wrong thread

Deleted member 77746 · 21 Jul 2018 at 13:16

or buy a sports template and just edit it?

jakspyder · 23 Jul 2018 at 21:14

Id go for squarespace for this sort of stuff.

Randomface74 · 2 Aug 2018 at 17:39

Learn HTML and get some cheapo web hosting. It's not at all difficult.

touch · 3 Aug 2018 at 14:48

billysielu said:
Learn HTML and get some cheapo web hosting. It's not at all difficult.

No, that's not a suitable solution. It would take months to learn enough HTML, CSS, server-side language and database creation to even get a basic site working. He asked for the easiest way to do this.

Some form of CMS is required. Either using a packaged site builder (like WIX) or some ready to go CMS (like Wordpress) on his own hosting.

Randomface74 · 3 Aug 2018 at 18:06

touch said:
No, that's not a suitable solution. It would take months to learn enough HTML, CSS, server-side language and database creation to even get a basic site working. He asked for the easiest way to do this.

Some form of CMS is required. Either using a packaged site builder (like WIX) or some ready to go CMS (like Wordpress) on his own hosting.

BS. Basic HTML is learnable in a weekend and no database is required.

touch · 3 Aug 2018 at 18:18

billysielu said:
BS. Basic HTML is learnable in a weekend and no database is required.

There's no way a novice is going to make anything near comparable with wordpress or WIX in a weekend.

Yes, it could be done in bare HTML with no javascript, php or database but it's a terrible idea to do that and there's absolutely no benefit to doing that at all.

Randomface74 · 3 Aug 2018 at 18:34

Nobody said it had to rival wordpress. It's a basic site with some info on it. Could literally make it in word and save as HTML.

touch · 3 Aug 2018 at 20:46

billysielu said:
Nobody said it had to rival wordpress.

So, not as good as wordpress and considerably more difficult to do? I still stand by my statement that it's not a suitable solution.