How to Create a Sports Website for Free
There are many sports and team websites out there, but if you're a sports enthusiast or an athlete, you may wish to promote your love of sports with your own website. A popular way to do this is by creating a simple sports blog with a unique template and multiple tabs, making it look like a professional website. It's an easy (and free) way to share your love of the game.
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Instructions
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Go to the website Blogger.com. Click on "Create a Blog" and follow the instructions to create your own blog. Give your blog a name representing your team or sports passion. Although blogs started as digital journals kept online, they now can be formed into mini-websites.
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Visit the website BloggerTemplatesBlog.com and find a template that best suits the photographic needs for your site. Choose a template that has multiple tabs if you want to have a "contact me" tab on your site or a tab linking to your profile on a social media site such as Facebook or MySpace.
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Click on the template you want for your site and click "Download" to get the code. Open the downloaded file and double-click on the .xml file within the folder to open that file in Adobe Dreamweaver. Copy and paste the code from the opened file into a new Dreamweaver HTML document.
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Edit the tab/link names and information to reflect what you'd like to have on your site. For example: If the tab shows up as "Tutorials" and you want it to say "Contact," replace "Tutorials" with "Contact" in Dreamweaver and change the link from an "http:" to a "mailto:" and your email address. Delete any unwanted tabs by deleting the links and text associated with them in the Dreamweaver document.
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Click on "Layout" on your Blogger blog's "Dashboard" on Blogger.com. Then click on "Edit HTML" in the top navigation bar. Copy and paste the HTML code from within the Dreamweaver document into the box under "Edit Template" on Blogger. Click the "Save Template" button at the bottom of the page.
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Click on the "Posting" tab in the upper left-hand corner of the Blogger website to bring up the box to type a new blog. Post your thoughts on a recent game and add fan photos or videos here whenever you'd like by adding the "add image" or "add video" icons in the tool bar of the box.
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Click "Publish Post" and then click "View Blog" to see your work in progress. Explore the Blogger "Dashboard" to update your profile information, add personal photos and info and to add more posts about sports.
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Send the link of your blog to your friends and family; link your blog posts to your personal pages on social media sites to promote your new sports website. Also, include a link to your site when you comment in sports-related message boards.
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In the future, if you want to pay for a ".com" or ".net" Web address, click on "Settings" in the Blogger Dashboard and click "Publishing." Click on "Custom Domain" to change your web address to your new domain name.
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Tips & Warnings
Blogger is good for small website usage or starter sites with only one main page to add text, photos and video. WordPress also works as a way to use a blog site as a real website, with more tabs available.
