How do I create a website for my club?
Open Blind Valet and choose Website in the menu. The club owner can create the site; it takes a few minutes and costs nothing until you publish.
Creating the site
- Pick a starting design. Each starter is a complete site with its pages already laid out. You can also start from scratch.
- Decide what's public. Choose whether tournament and league results appear on the site, how player names are shown (display name, first name + initial, or no names), whether winnings and locations are shown, and whether players appear with their photos or initials. You can change all of this later in the Privacy & data tab.
Every site gets its own yourclub.blindvalet.site address, and you can connect a domain you already own later (see Can I use my own domain name for my club website?).
Results only appear once you confirm that your club's members are fine with being shown publicly. Any member, tournament or league can also be hidden from the site individually.
What fills itself in
Once the site is connected to your club, these pages keep themselves up to date as you run tournaments in Blind Valet:
- Results, with the podium and the full finish order
- League standings, live
- Upcoming tournaments, with the location and a map link
- A scoreboard ribbon: the tournament running now, the last winner and your league leaders
Make it yours
Choose one of three themes and a color palette, add pages, write about the club and how to join, publish news posts and photo albums, and reword any label on the site. Every change goes into a draft that you can preview at a real address before publishing. When you publish, the previous version is kept, so you can go back to it.
Building and previewing are free on any Blind Valet plan, including the free one. You only pay when you put the site online. See How does billing for a club website work?