Building a Page for Your Team

The Westside Athletic Association encourages youth to play together as a team for as many years as they choose.  Children build lifelong friendships with teammates that they play with for  several years, and coaches have the opportunity to build on what they teach year after year. 

However, when team members change year after year, it makes the teaching and team building process more difficult. Building a team page is one of the easiest ways to build team unity and ensure that parents ask to be on the same team year after year.

The Westside Cubs web site shows some of the same boys over several years as they have grown and matured.  The team web site has created excitement about the team and has ensured that the boys request to be on the Cubs year after year.  The Cubs have even had requests from parents of Dug gap and Valley Point parents who wanted to move their boys to the Westside association to play for the Cubs.  Each year the Cubs are overwhelmed with requests from other Westside boys who want to play for the Cubs.  The web site is a primary reason for these requests.

The WSYAA Web Site will make this possible for each team that wants to have their own website, but each team is responsible for their own content.

Building a page for your team is a simple process.  Simply use Microsoft Word to write your content and insert your images into the page.  Email this word document as an attachment to teaminfo@wsyaa.com and we'll do the rest. Be sure to call (706-463-2168 Michael Hilton) to let us know you are sending team page information.

One very important item for all teams, however.  In sending updates, make sure you send very specific information on the team name with each update in the subject line of the email.  With so many Westside Teams, it is difficult for us to differentiate.

Inserting Images

If you are unfamiliar with Microsoft word,  simply place your mouse cursor where you want to insert your image, click the "insert" command at the top of the page; look for "picture" in the dropdown, and then select "file" and find the location of your image on your hard drive or CD-rom.

Next the picture has to be "formatted" so the text will flow around the image.  You don't want the image standing out by itself without text to the left.

• click on the image once
• then right click on the image with your mouse

This brings up a window; look for "format picture" and click on it

Choose the "layout" tab at the top of the window

Click on the "square" layout selection and then select the "right" or "left" radial button and then click "ok"  This will position the image on the right of left side of the page and text will flow around the image.  Select the center radial button if you want to place the image in the middle of the page.  It's that simple!

 

Updating your Pages

If you plan to perform regular updates to your pages for game-by-game summaries etc., it's best to use one file throughout the season and add updates at the bottom and submit this file with each update.

Individual Player Photos

If you want to include a page that has an individual picture for each player, this is easily accomplished by building a two-column table.  The player image is placed in one column and player name etc is place in the other column.

like this

Garrett Kelly Left Field/Catcher

Action Photo Pages

If you visit the Westside Pistons Team Area, you will find a number of pages where we have uploaded action photo's taken of our players during games.  These are easily done with a digital camera or a 35 mm camera and a scanner.  If using a digital camera make sure you reduce the image size so images are no larger than 5" by 7" when you are taking the picture.  Some cameras come preset with image size of 39" by 50" and these images are almost impossible to email due to file size.  Also, when you reduce these images, you obtain picture distortion or a grainy image.  You can change image size in your camera's Menu option.

To build action photo pages, just send me the images and I will add them to your page. Send these pics to cubspics@westsidecubs.net and make sure you call to let me know you are sending them (I rarely check this email address) Michael Hilton 706-463-2168. I will create the page with thumbnail image so you can click on the image and print pictures from the WSYAA Website. In sending this email, make sure you include the team name in your subject line so I will know which page to insert the images.

Practice/Game Calendar

Practice and Game Calendars also can be built using a table.  Simply use 7 columns and 4-5 rows.  Use the same file on your computer all year and update this file. We have added a page to the WSYAA website which has a 2007 and 2008 calendar which can easily be updated in word. See table about for hyperlink to these files.  Send this file as an attachment. Below is a team calendar example:

(We have made this much easier with an online calendar that you can open the link below, fill in the calendar, and save the file to your computer as a Microsoft word document.  This file can be emailed to WSYAA and uploaded in this format. This calendar also can be printed and distributed to parents for practice and game schedules.  This completed file (once uploaded) will be stored on the WSYAA Website for any parent or out-of-town grandparent to click on the file and print as many copies as they like from the website- 2008 Calendar -- 2009 Calendar ) Example of finished calendar for printing.

You may add several pages/sections to your team website.  A calendar page for practices and games.  A roster page with images and descriptions of your players.  You may add as many pages as you choose.  Your team area can be found by entering http://wsyaa.com/team_name.htm (i.e. http://wsyaa.com/lady_dawgs.htm )

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