I'm involved with my local rec baseball league. One of my duties in the coming months will be webmaster. The old site was made by someone and it's old and unkept. The only change that has been made is that they put a link to the online registration site, which is off-site.
In its first incarnation, I just plan on doing something simple. It'll have news, scores, rosters (maybe), standings, and some other stuff about the league. I'll update the standings as needed, put the scores up, and that'll be about it.
My grand plan is to make this site extremely personalized and interactive (and possibly the best rec baseball league site in existence!). I plan on having each user log in, and they will be assigned a role, as either a player (i.e. kid), parent, coach, commissioner, or board member (or a combination, we have a couple people who are a board member, commissioner, and coach). There would be personalized team sites, which list the rosters, schedules, scores, and notes from the coach. There would be general news pages, which would show news items from the league, and the news items you've already read would be marked as already read. Chat rooms, message boards, and private messages are also in the plans. I'll definitely leave some areas available for those who do not sign on, so they can still get league-wide news, as well as any team information that's not marked private by the coach.
I'm hoping y'all could throw some advice my way. If anyone has any experience working on web sites for kids, I'd especially appreciate any advice you could give me. I know about COPPA, and I plan on getting parental permission for anyone who plans on using the personalized portion of the site, or for anyone who wants to send me personal information. I'm not sure I want to moderate message boards or chat rooms, so giving the kids the ability to use message boards or chat rooms may have to be left out.
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