The crookham Rovers web site is at www.crookham-rovers.org.uk
There is a new menu option which is for managers (with a slight formatting problem using Internet Explorer, which I’ll fix). This takes you onto a further page from which the ‘maintenance’ can be performed. In order to update the team pages or sponsors, a username/password is needed. Apply to the webadmin if you do not have a username/password.
From the home page, follow the managers menu and choose the option to update the team pages. If everything is working, the next thing you should see will be a password page. If you enter a valid username/password, it will let you through.
It is fairly self-evident as to how to use it – the main thing to note is that to create a record, you hit the icon with a plus on it at the top of the page. To edit or delete a particular team, locate the team record of interest using the arrows and at the bottom of the page you will find there are two icons. One to edit the record, the other to delete it.
A brief description of the available fields when creating or editing a record.
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Age group: Fairly obvious
·
Team Name: Again obvious. But it is becoming clear that
an implicit club rule should be only one team in the club can have the same
name! Is that acceptable?
·
Stats URL: This is the link to an external web site
which is used to detail the team stats, such as provided by http://www.web-teams.co.uk - note the
http:// must not be entered as part of the address – start at www.
·
Club URL: Intended to be used to link to another
team-specific bit of the Crookham Rovers domain. In fact could link to any external web site as well. Same format
as above.
·
Team image: Upload an image from your computer. Note
that this image should have already been saved at a suitable resolution for web
use – do not attempt to upload raw pictures of 3 Mb. In fact there is a limit
of 100Kb on the file size which should be plenty since most current pictures
are about 50-70Kb. Warning: If you
try to upload an image larger than 100Kb, you lose the text you have typed in
the other fields.
· Manager: Errrr… that’ll be the manager’s name
· Contact: Email address of the team contact. This field is compulsory and should be a valid email. My strong preference is that all managers use a crookham-rovers.org.uk email address – the default set up for most managers is <teamname>@crookham-rovers.org.uk – one of the reasons why team names should be distinct. Note that you can enter your team email address before I have actually set it up, since any email sent to it would actually arrive in my inbox, and I would forward it. Also note that it is not restricted to a crookham address, and can be any valid email. Obviously it should be one that is active and that managers will read. I will set up Crookham email accounts to forward to personal accounts upon request.
·
Team Blurb: The text about the team. Unfortunately,
this should be a case of typing it in a box. But when it is displayed on the
data pages it loses all formatting therefore special instructions are required
and I’ll describe those later.
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Assistant: That’ll be another name….
· Role: The best word to describe the assistant. I could add others if anyone particularly objects to the few I’ve supplied.
As I said above, if you type text into the box, you think it looks ok so you save it, then view it from the data pages, all the formatting has gone. Everything is on one line! Just to make it more annoying is that the formatting looks ok from the admin pages! This seems to be a flaw in the tool I’m using. But the workaround isn’t too painful! A bit of HTML is required. There are only a few commands of interest. These should be included in your team description. If you want an example, go and edit an existing page that looks good!
<hr> creates a horizontal rule at that point. Nice to separate distinct sections.
<br> starts a new line. If you need a blank line, put two of them in.
<b>text</b>
will make the text bold
<u>text</u> will underline the text
<i>text</i> will make the text italic
If you happen to know HTML, more can be used. But that should be enough to get the format suitable for what we need.
Example:
First bit of text
<hr>
List of player’s names:
<br>Player 1
<br>Player 2
<br>Player 3
<hr>
We train at <b>Cody</b> on Wednesday nights.
The above would produce something like
First bit of text
List of player’s names:
Player 1
Player 2
Player 3
We train at Cody on Wednesday nights.
If your team has a sponsor, you can set up the details here. A further description will be put here when I get time, but if you manage the team page, the sponsor page is very similar!