Website provided by a major sporting body

Some major sporting bodies (eg cricket) offer a free website for their clubs.

Reasons for having a website provided by a major sporting body

These are listed on the main website page of this guide. Additionally, these websites:

• are usually free

• provide direct access to upload and view player and match statistics and competition ladders.

• have enough functionality that gives the club a functioning online presence (even at a basic level)

• there is usually some type of support (online and/or via telephone) to assist in setting up and maintaining the web site. Here are links to MyCricket Support (Australia) and the Play-Cricket Help desk (UK).

Concerns or reasons for not using a website provided by a major sporting body

These are also listed on the main website page of this guide. However, there are some specific concerns that clubs have about using these websites:

• some clubs do not consider them to be as attractive as externally designed websites

• the templates may be difficult to customise

  • changes may not be intuitive to make

  • changes may be possible, but it can take too much time to find out how to make them or require a level of technical skills that is not available within the club

• template design changes are sometimes made 'centrally' by the main sporting body and these can impact on how the website looks and/or its functionality.

• historical statistics are only available from when electronic records commenced.

• it may take time to modify photos and videos for uploading where they are restricted to a maximum size.