As each new season approaches, it’s the perfect time to refresh your team website and ensure it’s up-to-date for your current and prospective team members. Scanning your website for outdated information like last season’s policies, dates, deadlines, and staff details is a proactive step to provide clear, accurate, and professional communication.
- Why Update Your Team Website
- Where to Begin
- How to Make Updates
- Plan Ahead and Stay Flexible
- How-To Videos:
- A Brief Intro to Updating Your Team Website (6min)
- Workshop Webinar: Looking Good – Your Site’s Content and Appearance (60min)
- Need Some Inspiration?
- More Information
Why Update Your Team Website?
A well-maintained website is essential for:
- Keeping your team informed with accurate information.
- Attracting prospective members with a professional and organized platform.
- Reducing confusion by eliminating outdated references.
By taking a little time now to assess and update your content, you’ll set your team up for a smooth season.
Where to Begin:
Start by systematically reviewing your website content. Look for:
- Policies that may have been revised.
- Dates and deadlines from last season that no longer apply.
- Coaches and staff details that need to reflect the current lineup.
This process ensures your website reflects the current season and helps you identify areas that need further input or decisions.
How to Make Updates
SwimTopia makes it easy for team admins to manage and customize their websites. Here’s a quick guide to refreshing your site:
- Access the Editing Tools: Navigate to Manage Site > Edit Page Content to update your website pages directly.
- Limit Specific Dates for Future Ease: To streamline updates each season, avoid embedding too many specific dates within your content. Instead, use general terms like “the registration deadline” and reference a single central location for dates.
- Track Pages with Dates: If dates are necessary, keep a list of pages that will need updating each season to simplify the process.
- Leverage SwimTopia Design Tools: Customize the look and feel of your team website by adjusting:
- Colors, Header & Logo Settings: For a cohesive and branded appearance.
- Pages & Templates: To organize your content effectively.
- Snippets: These handy tools enable quick and professional-looking updates to your web pages.
Plan Ahead and Stay Flexible
While you can make these updates anytime, you might be waiting for final decisions on key details. In the meantime, take advantage of this opportunity to audit your site and flag areas for updates. Doing this prep work now will save you time later and ensure you’re ready when decisions are finalized.
How-To Videos
We have a short How-To video on how to update your team website: Brief Intro to Updating Your Website (6min), plus a longer Workshop Webinar: Looking Good – Your Site’s Content and Appearance that covers how to control the look and feel of your website, including your color scheme, menus, sidebars, pages, content and more.
Need Some Inspiration?
Take a look at some of our customers’ SwimTopia websites – you’ll see a wide range of customization – some teams use our basic layout, others have picked their color scheme, some have added a background photo, and some have used advanced styling to customize the look and feel of their swim team website. Click on any image to go directly to that team’s site – once there, you can see how they’ve laid out their sites and set up their pages and navigation. Check out how other SwimTopia teams have set up their sites.
More Information
Regularly updating your website at the start of each season simplifies the process year after year. Your team will appreciate having reliable, accurate, and organized information.
Get started today and anchor your team’s success with a polished, up-to-date website!
- New Season Setup Guide for Team Admins
- New Season Transition Checklist
- Printable New Season Transition Checklist
- Quick Start Guide (New Site Admins)
- What’s New? Making SwimTopia Better for You!
- Anchor Your Team’s Success – Update Your Financial Details for the New Year
- Managing Menus and Navigation
- Creating and Editing Pages
- Editing Template Content
- Working with Snippets to Create and Edit Page Content
- Managing Your Website
Published 01/07/2025. SwimTopia regularly releases new features, enhancements, and updates. Please visit our Help Center for the latest information on Managing Your Website.
