Web Site Development

Websites are an important means of distributing information these days. It's almost expected that everyone and everything will have a website that is easily accessible with all of the pertinent information available at the click of a mouse.

AYSO recognizes this need and has an easy, free solution that makes it so that ANY Region can have their own website and maintain it themselves! Clubspaces is an AYSO sponsor that provides free websites to our Regions and makes it so easy that anybody can create and maintain it.

The websites at Clubspaces offer the following features to help make Region management as simple as possible:

No HTML knowledge required - comes with easy to use templates to give your site a custom look and feel
Calendar of Events to keep track of schedules
Photos section to show everyone how much fun AYSO is
Automated online registration and sign-up, allowing the Region to take credit cards online and recruit volunteers
Give controlled access to other volunteers to help with job duties
Securely manage roster and member information
Assign job tasks to volunteers to help manage workflow
Game scheduler which generates schedules, checks for conflicts and emails parents when changes have been made
Score reporting and standings for whole Region

For more information and to sign up for a free website, visit Clubspaces.

I just signed up or already have a website. What should I put on it?

This is a very common question that can seem overwhelming when staring at a blank webpage. For your homepage, you want it to be the most central place that people will go to when trying to find information. It's good to change up your content once in awhile to keep people coming back and wanting to see what is new or coming up. You can keep it relevent to the soccer seasons or registration, giving your families the information they need to participate to their fullest. Below are some ideas for homepage content:

Registration Dates/Location/Information
FAQs - How to contact coaches, etc.
Upcoming Training Dates, classes etc.
Contact Information - Phone numbers, email addresses, etc.

Websites have lots of pages. How many pages should I have on mine?

Some common links could include an About Us, Contact Us, Registration, Board Members, Field Locations, Coach Information, FAQs, etc. Below are some websites that give examples of a good site structure:

My website isn't showing up in search engines? Why?

Search engines spider websites for keywords and information periodically, so if your site is new, it may take a week or so for the search engines to pick up your website and show it in the listings. Other things you can do to help search engines include:

Give links names (both in the URL and in the text) that are related to the content on the page. Naming a link page1.html will not help your site get picked up in search results.
Make sure your text on your pages include key words about the subject matter. Be as descriptive as possible while still having text that reads well.
Give pictures an ALT tag to help descibe the content in the image. Search engines pick up these tags and can help increase your visibility on a search engine.

For more information on Seach Engine Optimization, please read the article a Beginners Guide to SEO.

If you have a question that's not answered here, please contact webmaster@ayso.org.

Add a Pre Registration Button to Your Website

Instructions: Add the Preregistration button so families can go directly to eAYSO and preregister their children. The Preregistration button will make everything quick and easy for you on Registration day.

Please visit http://www.ayso214.org/AYSORegistration/tabid/363/Default.aspx for an example of instructions to place on your Web site to walk parents through the preregistration process. If you do use their instructions, please make sure to change the Region number to yours.

Put this button onto your Region Web site. To use the button, just copy the code below. Once you've copied the code, just paste it into your website's HTML.

Registration Button

HTML Code

Code: Select all: <a href="http://www.eayso.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.ayso.org/Libraries/Marketing_Toolkit/eayso_signup_btn.png" border="0"></a>