Believe it or not, my sports team web hosting service is finally in beta! TeamSites.com makes creating and updating team websites easy!
This is probably the tenth version I’ve worked on and it actually took less time than all the others. In all the previous versions, after adding more and more features, the design and user interface got extremely unwieldy. So, for this latest release, I used the same philosophy I used when creating BidNip: simplicity.
That’s right – I cut out most every cool feature. They were neat, but they added nothing (or very little) to the actual helpfulness of the service. So, I kept with only the things that _I_ would personally use when making a site for one of my kids. Homepage for news, schedule, and roster. I also added alerts for when practices or games are cancelled. I also added a media (photo/video) section – I originally had it cut too, since there are already SOOO many places to post pictures. To keep it simple, I made TeamSites only let you put URLs for your media – so you don’t have to upload them to the site! Simple!
I also originally went with _only_ HTML 5, but after testing in a few browsers, I let a little HTML 4 styling slip in. Maybe after IE 7 is phased out…