website for your club racing?

[motorsportbeng]

Have many of you got your own websites to showcase your club racing exploits? If so how did you go about creating them and is there much cost involved?
links to them if you do would be great to get a few ideas.

[spyderman8]

I already had a hosting account for my sports photography but simply added another domain to the package and installed Wordpress. Saves me faffing about with HTML. I have the Wordpress client on my iPhone too so I can take photos around the paddock/garages and make posts directly from it. Wordpress has an RSS feed and I use twitterfeed.com to send new posts automatically to both Twitter and Facebook.

http://chrisvalentine.name

You can get one-stop domain, hosting and something like Wordpress and never have to learn anything about HTML, FTP, blah blah blah. I use 1&1 (one of the biggest hosting companies in Europe) and even their cheapest "starter" package (£2.49 per month) can do this.

Chris.

Edited by spyderman8 on Monday 4th June 14:40

[Burp]

As above Wordpress works well.

http://burpspeed.com

[milescook]

What club is it for fella? If you need some help, I've helped a few people out in the name of making contacts and helping out, so let me know if you get stuck.

[wadsapple]

I think you will find the MSA would be a good place to start as they have people on board who help out and offer grants etc to get set up.Look on there web site as there was an article about that in the summer edition of MSA Magazine.

[Shoestringracer]

Another Wordpresser

www.shoestringMgracer.com

[motorsportbeng]

Some great looking websites there, will definitely look into that site further. I want it to be a website just as much about the racing as it is to document my build of the car, hopefully leading to a few private jobs in the future!

[Simon T]

www.tillingmotorsport.com

Built with site builder on fasthosts.co.uk

Simon

[Hybrids]

I'm still using frontpage, it's basic but does what I want:

http://www.newtonracing.co.uk/

[Pete RS]

Heres mine:

www.rennsportracing.com

I do all the content myself. It cost about £500 to do the initial build. They key is make sure you can edit/ upload content otherwise it will always be out of date and aright pain the bum IMO.

[andylaurence]

I used Joomla to set mine up for a few reasons that likely will not apply to you. I'd also recommend wordpress.

Sprinting an ADR Sport 2

[cytefx]

mine is in drupal, has in the past been in wordpress, movable type etc, at present its drupal 6, but migrating to drupal 7 when I get round to it.

http://www.going-racing.com

[spyderman8]

One thing I will say as a warning when it comes to using any open source content management system (like Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc) is that you need to keep it up to date (or your ISP does) or you may well get hacked. The whole idea of open source is the code is out there for anyone to look at so hackers can more easily find vulnerabilities. Some CMSs make it easier to update than others.

If you have contact or comment forms, make sure you employ anti-spam measures - CAPTCHA modules are often available as add-on modules.

Edited by spyderman8 on Wednesday 20th June 10:32