Web site help wanted

[CLBuffalo]

First I would like to make it clear to everyone that I have no intention of making it just an umpire site. It never was and it never will be. The reason I had posted a message here is because there are a lot of non umpires in this Forum. Also it seems to me that this is now the Forum for softball people.

I have thought of trying to incorporate a lot of what you've suggested but more on the lines of links rather than duplicate what already exists. Perhaps I'm thinking of the site as being a sort of resource center.

The site is a .org and I have never received nor asked for any kind of compensation. I did once list some vendors because I was asked to by some softball people but I don't want to do that again. I don't object to advertising I just don't want to rely on it or make the .org part meaningless.

I am only interested in amateur fastpitch. Some will disagree with me on this but I don't consider NCAA or ISF or the Olympics (anymore) to be true amateur softball. BTW If I didn't mention it I am the only person working on this.

There are a few things you've suggested that I hadn't thought of and I will try to incorporate them.

If anyone wants to contact me directly you can visit the web site (http://www.fastpitch.org) and use the feedback form to send me your thoughts and suggestions. You can also email me directly at clbuffalo - fastpitch - org.

I do remember the Fast Pitch Forum and wish it was still with us. I also remember the good old days of RSS and RSO. I'm not sure anybody can recreate them but this is a good Forum.

Thanks again for the suggestions.

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by CLBuffalo

The reason I had posted a message here is because there are a lot of non umpires in this Forum. Also it seems to me that this is now the Forum for softball people.

Really? While there are some non-umpires who post here regularly, the large majority are umpires. I wouldn't consider this to be a general softball site. The site owners are fairly direct in their target audience - sports officials.

It is a public forum in the sense that anyone can register, but the threads here are almost exclusively dealing with rules and other aspects of officiating a contest.

Good luck with your web site, by the way.

[JefferMC]

I just (last week or so) registered the domain name UpstateSoftball.Com, with the intent of setting up a site focused on Ladies FastPitch activity in the Upstate of SC (a little out of the way of Manning).

Basically, my thought that there is no good clearing house for information about all the organizations that play in SC (as SCUmp mentioned, there are quite a few, even if you stick to girls fast pitch). I was thinking about trying to have such information as collected tournament results, etc., but am a bit worried about trying to keep that up in the height of the travel season.

I'd be interested in continuing this conversation off line...