club websites

[Jim B]

Dannis Hammer's post got me thinking that id like some comments on the website i setup for my culb recently. I had posted a link as a response to his post biut i figured id make my own post to avoid confusion.



Heres a link to it. let me know what you all think. its not done yet but as i get more pictures and stuff i will finish it soon. anyone else out there have a club website they want to share? I would like to see what other clubs out there are doing.
http://massbassbuddies.tripod.com

 

[Un-Rob Rasch]

That is a real nice site. A lot of the same areas that you have covered, I had as well for the site I built. I built this one about 3 years ago for my bass club. I have moved and am no longer the webmaster, but the design is basically the same.



http://www.leavenworthbassclub.org



The key I have found is to keep it updated often. If it is not updated often, the guys will stop using it. I also hooked up with Bass Pro affiliates program (see the link at the bottom of the home page). Since all the guys were ordering from Bass Pro, I figured we should get a return on the investment. Bass Pro pays back 5% to the club for any purchases made through the link. Basically, the website pays for itself through our affiliation program. This allowed me to get the domain name and a good hosting service (I used Yahoo) with no pop-ups.



Also, I put a "member only" section that is password protected for the guys to be able to get addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses of everybody else without having to post it for the whole world to see.



My design was pretty simple and could probably stand an overhaul... but so far it has stood the test of time.

 

[Greg Meyer]

I am proud to say that my Club was selected as the Illinois Bass Federation Club of the year for 2002... Our website had a lot to do with our earning the award...



here's the site www.nsbass.com I encourage you to look around it is an extensive site.