The club website is part of every plan
Most Irish clubs have no website, or one that stopped being updated years ago and still lists a secretary who stood down in 2019. Every Tadpole plan includes a site the committee can keep current without a developer, and the join and day-permit buttons on it are wired into the same system as everything else.
What a club site actually needs
Six things, and they are the six things a stranger asks: who you are, which waters you control and what the rules are, when the season opens and closes, how to join, how to buy a day permit, and one way to contact the club that someone actually reads.
The three things that waste everyone’s time are a news page nobody updates, a forum nobody moderates, and a contact form that emails an address nobody checks. A site that has the six and not the three is doing its job.
The reason most club sites go stale is that the person who built it left. The reason ours do not is that the news, the season dates and the officers are the same records the secretary already keeps in the admin.
What you get, and how it stays current
- 1
Your club, your colours, your domain
The site carries the club’s name, crest and colours, not ours. The club buys and owns its own domain as a direct cost, and we can act as agent if that helps. It is the right answer, and most providers do the opposite.
- 2
Waters, rules and season dates from the admin
The waters page shows each stretch or lough with its rules and dates. Change the season in the admin and the site changes with it.
- 3
News and a gallery the committee can post to
A catch report or an AGM notice takes a few minutes from a phone. Photos go in albums, with alt text so they show up in image search.
- 4
Join and buy a permit, wired in
The join button is your application form, reviewed by the committee in the admin. The permit button is your permit shop. Nobody copies names off a form into a spreadsheet.
Trim, Athboy & District, and nine other clubs
Our own club’s site lists the Boyne stretches with their rules, the competition calendar, and the officers as they are this year, not as they were when the last site was built. Ten Irish clubs run on Tadpole today; each one’s site is theirs, on their branding.
- Search engines get the club’s pages, not ours: each site has its own sitemap and canonical address
- Members see the club’s name everywhere. Tadpole stays out of sight
- If the club ever leaves, the domain is theirs and the content can be exported
What committees ask us
- Is the website a separate product?
- No. It is included in every plan, so there is no separate price for it and nothing to add on. What a plan costs depends on whether the club runs memberships or sells to the public; the website is in all of them.
- We already have a site. Do we have to move?
- No. Plenty of clubs keep their existing site and link its join and permit buttons to Tadpole. If the old site has gone stale, moving is the moment to fix that, and we will talk you through it.
- Who owns the domain?
- The club does. You buy it in the club’s name as a direct cost, or ask us to act as agent. Either way the name is yours, which matters the day you want to change anything.