A club plan gives your club a website at the address your members already use. Somebody who goes to yourclub.clayside.app reads the website. Your members sign in at the same address as they always did. Nothing on it is public until somebody presses Publish.
Where it is
It is under Club → Website, and that screen asks which of two jobs you are here for. Your club’s own website is this one. Your table on a website you already have is the other, and it gives you two lines to paste onto a site somewhere else. Most clubs want one of the two. You can come back and do the other whenever you like.
The head of that screen says which of four states you are in. It gives you the one thing to do next: Start, Publish, See it or Publish changes.
Starting it
Press Start and there is a draft straight away. It is built from what your club already has: your name, how many courts you have, what you run and what it costs. A page with nothing behind it starts switched off, so a club with no lessons gets no Coaching page rather than an empty one.
Nothing is public at this stage. The preview beside the list is the real page rather than a picture of one, so what you are looking at is what a visitor would read.
An evening’s work
This is the order most clubs do it in.
- Open About. Write the one line under your club’s name, and fill in where you are. The home page has the rest of that screen.
- Put a photograph up, even one. See photos and documents.
- Go down the list of pages and switch off anything your club does not do. See the pages.
- Add a card or two saying who to ask. See who is on the website.
- Press Publish. Three things change, and the screen says all three before the button.
None of it has to be finished first. Publish a home page tonight and add the rest next week.
Who can work on it
The owner, the secretary and anybody on the committee. It is one of the jobs a committee seat can do, so the website does not have to sit with whoever signed the club up. The first publish is the owner’s. After that, any of them can publish a change.
Two of you can work on it the same evening. Your words are saved as you type, and the screen tells you if somebody else has saved since you opened it.
On the trial
You can build the whole thing during your trial and look at it properly. Search engines are not told about a trial club’s website, so nobody is going to stumble on it while you are still deciding.