Starting Gate Websites Product Details

We create a turnkey web presence tailored for your unique organization. We start by setting up your own unique domain name and include 12 months of free hosting on SWG Servers. You will pay only $39.99 a year for hosting after that and $10 a year for domain name renewal.

By combining today’s most dynamic web tools with first-hand knowledge of the challenges involved in managing high school athletic teams, SGW builds you a better website … faster and for less money. Whether you want to start from scratch with a new website, or add more functionality to an existing site, we can tailor a solution that’s a perfect fit for your goals and your budget.

How it works: Tell us everything you’d like to achieve with your website — from lightening the administrative burden on your staff to improving the way you connect with fans or report scores. Then, we’ll implement the solution, providing whatever level of support you choose — handling everything from design all the way through hosting to simply upgrading your system with interactive content management features. You keep full control of the process, the costs, and the timeline, and you can take full credit for a site that takes your program to an all-new level of services, visibility and value.

HIGHLIGHTS

Bios and Rosters
Captioned Photos
Editable Navigation
Featured Articles
Schedules (with links to box scores, recaps, and video)
Standings
Stat Support
Traffic Reports

FEATURES

Bios & Rosters
Editable Navigation
Headlines
Schedules
Scoreboards
Standings
Stat Support
Social Bookmarks
Traffic Reports
Video Clips

The Bios and Roster Pages allow athletic departments to feature student-athletes and coaches more easily. A simple interface allows you to enter key data and associate a head shot or action photo of your student-athletes. The information you choose to display is customized based on your selection and can be changed at anytime.

With a direct correlation to add pages and sections, Starting Gate Websites gives you the flexibility to add navigation. Editable navigation bars allow you to specialize how your user gets from feature to feature on you website.

Starting Gate Websites allows you to feature or headline a story in multiple sections on your website. You control where and what you want your fans to see. Many times a story needs to appear multiple places on your website and in most instances that means you need to post it as many times as it needs to appear. Analyzing this need, Starting Gate Websites allows you to post a story once and gives you the option(s) of where you want to feature the story using pull down menus.

SOCIAL NETWORK BOOKMARKS AND EMAIL THIS PAGE NOW AVAILABLE FOR Starting Gate Websites CLIENTS, SOFTWARE UPGRADE INCLUDES TOOLS FOR FACEBOOK, MYSPACE

Starting Gate Websites, a leading provider of web sites to college athletics, has made email this page and social network bookmarks available throughout its network. Starting Gate Websites software upgrades are free of charge to the entire network of Starting Gate Websites web site clients.

Starting Gate Websites clients will have the opportunity to add a SHARE button through which one may:

email the page
bookmark it to favorites
add to Facebook
add to Google bookmarks
add to YouTube
exchange information with Twitter

We record every time a visitor clicks on your site, and provide those Tracking Reports on an hourly basis. You will be able to track hits, unique visitors, what countries your visitors are coming from and so much more. The hits and unique visitors are broken down by month, day and even by hour. This information is important to see what kind of traffic your site is seeing and possibly assist you to advertise on the web.

All of the latest traffic report tools are available from Google Analytics and beyond, just let us know what works best for you. It all works with the flexible SGW system.

E-Newsletter & Fan Management

Interactive content-customization features develop loyal fans and supporters

Starting Gate Websites makes it easy for fans and the media to get the specific information they want about your program, teams, games and upcoming events. With our e-newsletter distribution service, you no longer have to open a separate e-mail program and manually distribute your information. Plus, our fan management feature enables fans to receive automatic updates on specific topics whenever you update content.

How it works

Fans simply click to your website and register themselves for e-newsletters and updates in specific content areas. These e-mail addresses become part of distribution lists you can customize by sport, media, supporters, athletic department staff, or other criteria. Once you’ve entered your newsletter or other content, send it simply by clicking on the pertinent distribution lists.

Plus, to make sure your content gets through most spam filters, our system sends each e-mail individually. In addition, your system complies with the latest federal and international laws by allowing recipients to easily opt out of further mailings.

Highlights

Easily distribute any content to different audiences
Recipients can sign themselves up, or you can add their names
Recipients can quickly opt-out as required by law
E-mails are individually addressed to pass spam filters
You can maintain as many distribution lists as you like
There is no limit to the size of any distribution list
You can view each e-mail campaign individually
You can track which recipients have opened their e-mail and when
You can track which e-mail addresses are rejected or bounce back

The skeletal structure or layout of your site will be fairly simple based on your selected features.

Right now we are offering 2 basic styles of site. You can review our two favorite styles by clicking on the following links:

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