SeasonPlanner - Sports software and team websites

SeasonPlanner - 2004 Gaining Support Among High School Teams

2004-07-28T11:05:00.000-07:00

More and more high school and middle school teams and clubs are turning to SeasonPlanner – 2004 to create amazing season web sites.

Coaches are taking advantage of the software to organize their rosters and schedules. They are amazed when they create their own professional team website by clicking a button (No HTML or programming skills are necessary).

Coaches or team managers use our Windows (No Mac Version) software program to create player profiles, preview articles, event articles, picture galleries and more. During the season this information is use to maintain their season website. And it takes only a few minutes to enter results and write a paragraph or two after each contest.

The response from the players, parents, and supporters is amazing. The web sites are a great way to motivate players, communicate with parents, and promote and build support within your community. As the years go by they also provide a valuable history of past teams and seasons.

We have a terrific program for schools interested in our site license version of SeasonPlanner – 2004. For $300/yr we provide software and up to 20 season site licenses for your school. There are no additional charges and no outside advertising on your season sites. Schools maintaining current site licenses pay no additional hosting fees for historical sites. For smaller schools we offer the same program for $200/yr for up to 10 season site licenses.

Contact me or visit www.seasonplanner.com for more information or to order SeasonPlanner – 2004 for your school.

Have a great day!

Ken Barley
sales@seasonplanner.com
541-988-0779

Season Websites Gaining Popularity Among Youth Sports Teams

2004-07-14T10:16:00.000-07:00

A group of kids are gathered around a computer in the school library reading and discussing the sports article on the screen. The article is not about the Yankees or Cowboys, it is about their youth soccer match over the weekend. Each is searching for his name and one boy is being teased about the funny look on his face as he is about to take a shot. The team roster is displayed on the right side of the screen and they begin clicking on each player to look at the player’s picture and profile. Some of the kids’ parents have made the team website their default page at work, and friends and family in other cities are following the team.

More and more youth sports leagues and coaches are building team websites to motivate players and communicate to parents and friends. Software packages like SeasonPlanner – 2004 (www.seasonplanner.com) allow them to organize their season and create and maintain websites in minutes. These teams cover the spectrum of sports, skill, and age levels ranging from preschool soccer teams up to adult softball teams and minor league hockey. Coaches of younger teams will build passwords to limit access to the team sites and only visitors that know the password can view the site.

The benefits of coaching organization software and team websites include improved communications, player and team motivation, parent and friend contact, and the historical value of the information down the road. The growing popularity is a result of the ease at which the websites can be built and the tremendous amount of positive feedback the coaches are receiving from parents, players and fans.

Kevin Johnson is the high school boys’ basketball coach at Castle Rock High School in Castle Rock, Washington and is a prime example of a coach using season websites to his advantage. He creates positive articles after games, builds practice and game schedules, and communicates with his players over the summer. He has a historical site for his 2003-2004-basketball season (http://crbasketball0304.teamsonline.info) and a site (http://crbasketball.teamsonline.info) started for this year. “The software and web hosting has become a great tool to promote our kids, communicate with our parents and community and the feedback from our supporters has been extremely positive”, according to Johnson.

Mike Restive of Alameda, California coaches a youth soccer team and speaks highly about the motivating benefits for his team. Mike explains, “Our website is a useful communication tool for our parents providing information such as game times and locations, snack schedules, and current standings. Another benefit is that my players get a real self esteem boost from seeing their names and photos on our site, which I believe really boosts their confidence and ultimately their performance.

Tom Porter maintains several team websites and speaks highly of the improved communications and positive feedback, “I ran across Season Planner when my youngest son’s baseball coach sent me the link for the team. I thought it was so cool and such a good idea, that I checked it out for myself. I was able to easily manage the teams and communicate with the parents. The personal feedback from dozens of parents was very positive, they were excited to send this link around the world, to friends and family members that do not live local and wanted to keep up on the team anyway.”

Coaches and parents are seeing the historical value in seasonal team websites. As time goes by the sites become historical accounts of past seasons. Coaches then create new websites for the next season. In just a few years they create a great history and parents return to the old sites checking on their kids past accomplishments and old pictures. The sites become an online sports album of kids’ lives.

Season websites will continue to grow in popularity. Coaches and parents creating these sites are motivating their teams and writing history for their players. The kids in the library will grow and in a few years we will see them gathered around a another computer reliving the glory days of the past, once again laughing at the funny look on their friends.

About the Author

Ken Barley is the President of B&B Software, Inc. (dba Cascade Technologies). He has over twenty-five years of software development experience. His company specializes in the creation of commercial quality software for organizations and publishers. The company also develops and markets their own products, including SeasonPlanner – 2004 (http://www.seasonplanner.com) and Athletes Log – 2000 (http://www.athleteslog.com). Additional information can be found by visiting the Cascade Technologies website (http://www.ctsoft.com). Questions and comments about this article are welcomed and should be sent to KenBarley@ctsoft.com.

SeasonPlanner - 2004 HowTo: Get Started Using the Software

2004-07-05T15:01:00.000-07:00

Our users create and maintain amazing websites. They also save valuable time by using SeasonPlanner - 2004 to organize their season, build rosters, practice and game schedules, and communicate through their team websites.

SeasonPlanner - 2004 is very easy to use. But, like any new software, it takes the user a little time to become comfortable using the software.

We would like to suggest the following to help you get started using SeasonPlanner - 2004:

1. Install SeasonPlanner - 2004.

2. Run the Wizard and fill in the information requested at each step:

Step 1: Enter in a long and short name for your team. (Long Name: Springfield Miller Golf 2004, Short Name: Millers).

Step 2: Enter in some general information about your team.

Step 3: Select two team colors for your website.

Step 4: If you have a team logo click the Get Logo... button and navigate to your team logo. Same for sport logo. If not just skip this step. You can always select a logo later using the Team Maintenance form.

Step 5: Select a Card Front for sports cards. You can skip this step and do it later.

Step 6: SeasonPlanner - 2004 is built with a Practice and Game activity types. If you want to rename these or build other activity types (i.e. Meeting) click the Build Types of Activities button and build your activities. You can build additional types of activities at a later time.

Step 7: Click on the Build players, coaches and friends and build a few players and coaches. You can build and maintain them at any time by clicking on the top left button on the main calendar screen.

After finishing Step 7, click on the web update button, and the Web Maintenance form will be displayed. Click the Publish Site button and your first site is built. Click the View Site button to view your website. The URL for others to view your site is listed at the top of the form as a five digit number followed by teamsonline.info (i.e. 12345.teamsonline.info).

3. The main calendar screen is the primary interface for SeasonPlanner - 2004. Here are a few tips to help get you started:

Tip 1: Everything can be done from the menus at the top of the screen. Take a little time looking through the different menu options to gather an understanding of SeasonPlanner - 2004 functions.

Tip 2: Write a season preview headline and article for your team.

- Click on the top left button on the main calendar screen to bring up the Player Selection screen.
- Click on the Team button at the top right of the Player Selection screen to bring up the Team Maintenance screen.
- Click on the Preseason Article tab.
- Write your headline and short article.

Tip 3: Double click on a day to build events for the day. For games, write a preview headline and article. After games, write a summary headline and article.

Tip 4: Click on the top left button to bring up the Players selection screen, create your players and coaches, include pictures and write short profiles for players.

Tip 5: Build picture galleries using the Picture Gallery option under the Edit menu at the top of the main calendar screen.

Tip 6: Update your website often by pressing the Web Update button at the bottom of the main calendar screen.

Tip 7: Fill in the Site URL Prefix: to build your own custom URL. Your team number will also still work. For example, the Miller Golf site has the URL Prefix: MillerGolf and the site can be accessed by http://millergolf.teamsonline.info or http://10870.teamsonline.info

4. Contact us if you have any questions. We do a good job communicating with our users. We find they really appreciate it and in turn recommend our software to others.

Ken Barley
sales@seasonplanner.com

SeasonPlanner - 2004 Info: League Partnerships or Affilliate Program

2004-06-30T05:47:00.000-07:00

SeasonPlanner - 2004 is becoming a very popular way for coaches organize their season and build professional looking websites with the click of a button.

We are looking to partner with leagues as a method of distributing our software. We can work with your league in a variety of ways:

1. Promo offers directly to your teams from your league.

2. Affiliate relationships with a 20% royality for your league.

3. Volume discount pricing if you wish to offer our software as part of your offerings. You purchase the license directly from us and supply them to your coaches.

Visit www.seasonplanner.com for more info about our product.

Visit www.seasonplanner.com/league/leagues.asp to learn about our league options.

Visit www.seasonplanner.com/league/fivestar.asp to see great websites our users have created.

SeasonPlanner - 2004 Overview

SeasonPlanner - 2004 is an amazing tool to organize and motivate players and teams. Use the software to build team rosters, schedules, picture galleries and articles. Before an event, write a preview headline and article. After events, enter in results, a picture, and write a headline and news article. Build profile information and pictures for teams, players, coaches, supporters and friends. The pictures are used to build sports cards, rosters and picture galleries on the team website.

Build a professionally designed web site with the click of a button, no HTML progamming is needed.

SeasonPlanner is very easy to use. You start building your team by stepping through a wizard that guides you through a series of steps to build team information, rosters, and schedules. A calendar interface is used to build practice and event schedules. Player and event information is entered in well-organized screens.

SeasonPlanner has a wealth of reporting capabilities. Schedules, rosters, player profiles, event summaries, sports cards, certificates, awards and letters can be easily created.

SeasonPlanner is an amazing piece of software and a must for any team wanting a web site.

Ken Barley
sales@seasonplanner.com
541-988-0779

SeasonPlanner - 2004 How To: Create My Own Custom URL

2004-06-27T07:33:00.000-07:00

How do I create my own URL for my SeasonPlanner - 2004 season site?

When your website is first built on our teamsonline network (www.teamsonline.info) a 5 digit number (i.e. 12345) is assigned to your team and your URL address is created using that number (i.e. http://10870.teamsonline.info).

In SeasonPlanner - 2004 we added the ability for you to create a custom URL for your team. On the Web Update form of SeasonPlanner - 2004 you simply enter a url prefix (i.e. millergolf) for your season. Your custom URL (i.e. http://millergolf.teamsonline.info) works as soon as you update your site.

The team number assigned to your website always works as a url, so you can add, change, or remove your custom URL at anytime.

A custom URL can also be changed. When next season roles around our existing MillerGolf url will become MillerGolf04 and we will then use the MillerGolf url for the new season.

Ken Barley

Welcome to Our SeasonPlanner - 2004 Blog

2004-06-20T08:48:00.000-07:00

SeasonPlanner - 2004 is a special product, and our family of users is growing each day. Our coaches and parents are special people and do great things for kids. I look at some of the sites that are built and I am amazed. The kinds words about our software and the great conversations I have with many of our users makes the work very enjoyable. I have been looking for a way to communicate ideas and suggestions concerning SeasonPlanner - 2004 in an open forum. Hopefully, this blog can be such a forum.

My first message is a very simple thank you to all our users and those evaluating our free 30-day trial version www.seasonplanner.com. Keep up the great work you do for kids and keep building the quality websites.

Ken Barley