Does my team need a website?
Yes. Below you will find reasons as to why team sites are important.
It gives you the ability to communicate easily with your players, parents, and
fans. Schedules and other information that needed to be handed out before will
now be accessed on the web and the abilty to print them will be available.
College recruits can access your site and find important information about your
players.
Sponsors of your team can be added to the site as an added perk of being your
sponsor.
Fans and boosters of your team will have access to statistics, schedules,
calendars, news stories, and pictures of your team simply by accessing your
site.
Why would we pay for a website when others offer them for free?
There are several reasons why we feel a paid website is better than a free one.
For one we will provide you with a doman name for your particular team. A domain
name is what your users will use to access your team's site. For example our
doman name is
www.evarsitysports.com. Free site
builders generally set you up as a sub-domain off of their domain name, which is
why in order to access your team's site you have to input something like
www.theirwebsite.com/teams/football/yourteamname.
We feel domain names are relevant because they give your users easy access to
your team's site.
Second, we will work closely with you to design your team's site from the ground
up. Free site builders give 20 or so templates to choose from if they even give
you a choice of a template. The free site builders give you limited control over
the site. Sure you can change the colors and add pictures here and there, but in
the end your site will look like every other team's website with a different
coloring scheme and images. With
eVarsity Sports we will build your
team's site from the ground up with your input and suggestions. Your team's site
then will be an original as opposed to the same site as thousands of other
teams.
Third,
eVarsity Sports will be involved now and in the future. We give
you the tools to update the site yourself, but unlike free site builders we will
train you how to use these effectively. Our package also includes 2 hours of our
time every month. If you don't have time to do something a particular month then
give it to us and we'll do it for you at no additional cost. Free site builders
offer no live training, but
eVarsity Sports will set up live training to
show you how to use our
Sports Management System at no additional cost.
Fourth, free site builders don't charge you anything so where does the money
come from? Their money comes from sponsors, which they allow to advertise on
your team's site. You generally have no control over this and the sponsors
images are plastered all over your team's site. Since their money comes from
sponsors who do you think they answer to in the end? We make our money by
providing our services to the teams so we will always answer to you the team.
With our
Sports Management System you have the ability to put
your
sponsors on the site as an extra perk. We will never link our sponsors to
your team's site, because in the end the site is yours not ours.
Lastly, sites designed with these free site builders generally become what we
call ghost sites. They start off with the best intentions, but either the
administrator grows tired of updating the site because it is too difficult or
because no one accesses the site because it is impossible to find.
eVarsity
Sports is committed to preventing this from happening to our teams' site.
Whether it is a gentle nudge on our part to your team's site administrator or
updating your team's site ourselves we will work our hardest to make
eVarsity
Teams network of teams vibrant.
What software needs to be installed on my computer?
Our
Sports Management System is 100% web based so nothing will need to be
installed on your computer. You will simply need internet access in order to
access your team's site.
Can I link to my sponsor's website?
Absolutely. When we design your team's site we will give you a sponsors page
that you will be able to input all of your team's sponsors and their websites.
You will also have the option of placing a sponsor scroller on all pages that
will randomly show your sponsors. To learn more visit our
features page.
When can I expect my website to be finished?
This of course depends on the complexity of your site and how many teams are
before you. We try our hardest to get your site done in less than 2 weeks.