Attention Sports Fans
Dec. 12th, 2006 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbarrick
What do you look for on a team website? If you were in charge of putting up a website for your team, what would you want on it? Do you have any favourite sports websites? What makes you visit them? What would make you visit them more? And conversely, what annoys you the most about sports sites? Seriously. I need some input here. Help!
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Date: 2006-12-13 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-13 04:51 am (UTC)I'm intentionally not mentioning the sport or team 1.) because the deal isn't done, and 2.) I've been asked to come up with something "fresh" so I don't want to taint the suggestions with what's already done by other teams in the particular sport.
You've actually already helped a lot, BTW. The UEFA site was one of the better looking sites I've seen so far.
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Date: 2006-12-13 05:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-13 05:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-13 05:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-13 04:53 am (UTC)however, google turned this up, which may or may not be useful: http://www.ladiescourt.com/2006/11/17/justine-henin-hardennes-voted-best-website/
i find it interesting that one of the observations is that individual player sites tend to be better than team sites. perhaps you can glean something from this and improve on the apparent mediocritized standard in sports team websites?
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Date: 2006-12-13 05:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-13 09:46 am (UTC)English soccer is brutally notorious for that, as they rely on a league sponser who (and not the teams) obviously dictates what the sites look like. For example, here's the three English teams I follow:
http://www.seagulls.premiumtv.co.uk
http://www.wycombewanderers.premiumtv.co.uk
http://www.southendunited.premiumtv.co.uk
Even a quick glace shows that these are all basically identical in look and content, and because of that give a drab appearance overall to the league.
The only exception to this standard Premium TV Sponser format is Accrington Stanley's website http://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk because they were promoted this year from non-league status and as of yet sponser Premium TV has yet to make their precense felt and the website conform to the norm.
By the way, I think the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football has the best soccer website; it's clean, not cluttered with adverts, concise, and covers a lot of ground.
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Date: 2006-12-13 05:24 am (UTC)Hell, if Voltaire can do a Superbowl commercial, I can pull this off.
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Date: 2006-12-13 07:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-13 07:36 am (UTC)This project isn't in the bag yet, though. But if it does come through I could see needing some help. This won't be a $1000 web brochure.
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Date: 2006-12-13 09:22 am (UTC)Mind you, kind of depends on the sport in question and what your target audience is - i.e. fans, media, players, etc. I'd say one popular feature common to most good sites is a forum for discussion - and our forum attracts a lot of viewing traffic even though discussion is often limited to about a dozen freaquent posters. Statistics and pictures are popular features as well.
The main dilemna I see with sports websites is content - there are some real nice-looking websites but no one ever updates the content. That's a common pratfall, sport websites (especially those run by amateur teams) don't have the people resources to come up with current news content. That's a problem with our own club, no one besides me wants to sit down and do the gruntwork to create interesting content. Often the better sports websites work so well because they have a strong website admin running the show.
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Date: 2006-12-14 05:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-14 06:58 am (UTC)