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At some stage you will probably need access to technical skills to make your club's web presence effective. This page briefly discusses where you might gain access to thse skills and provides some coverage of some (very) basic Internet concepts.
Whilst it is possible to set up a useful and reasonable looking web presence with minimal technical skills, it is likely that somewhere along the way your club may need some basic skills to achieve your online aims. The most common ways that clubs gain access to these skills are:They are already available within the club.
Club volunteers are able to call upon friends or work colleagues who can provide varying levels of expertise.
Volunteers within the club undertake some training or teach themselves how to use the tools. Local councils or education institutions often offer such courses. Sometimes this involves using a search engine (such as Google or Bing) to discover how other people have solved similar technical issues that they may be having.
Consultants are paid to provide the skills that are needed. If your club goes down this path then be sure that you ask questions about what you will getting for your money. For instance, you ideally do not want to sign up for a new website and then find out that you have to pay to update the content of the pages - your club should know how and be able to do that from within.
Major sporting bodies who provide websites for clubs will usually provide some form of support for those sites, online or via a support service who can be contacted by email or telephone.
Basic Internet knowledge
Whilst there are too many areas of technical skills to cover in this guide, here are some links to some basic Internet knowledge that may be useful for volunteers who are looking to develop their own skills or even to communicate more effectively with other people who have technical skills:
Internet basics: this is a very basic Internet course (offered by GCF LearnFree) that is simple to follow. Whilst you probably know most of it, it does introduce simple terms such as hyperlinks and URLs.
HTML tutorial: Hypertext Markup Language (or HTML) is the language used across the Internet to format how web pages look. For the most part you probably will not need to know anything about it. However, if you wish to tinker with how web pages look then this could be a good place to start. This video by CodeHS provides a basic introduction.
Linking content across platforms: this page examines some of the ways that you may be able to link content across different Internet platforms.
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