new Irish golf website

spinaltap

Hi Guys/girls of the golfing fraternity.
I am designing a new website for the Irish golfing community and looking for some advise on it.
Firstly I am looking for advise on what the people hopefully will be using would want on an Irsh Golf site, as In links , free ads , tips, tutorials, videos, daily updates etc.web forum for advise on golf
I will not be making moeney from the site, as a fan and a struggling player I would like to bring similar people together in a dedicated website soley for Iirsh golfers, so if any one would like to suggest any ideas I would bevery gratefull .
many thanks all

1stuey1

spinaltap wrote: »

Hi Guys/girls of the golfing fraternity.
I am designing a new website for the Irish golfing community and looking for some advise on it.
Firstly I am looking for advise on what the people hopefully will be using would want on an Irsh Golf site, as In links , free ads , tips, tutorials, videos, daily updates etc.web forum for advise on golf
I will not be making moeney from the site, as a fan and a struggling player I would like to bring similar people together in a dedicated website soley for Iirsh golfers, so if any one would like to suggest any ideas I would bevery gratefull .
many thanks all

good thinking maybe some online video tutorials, maybe links to irish courses and info u have it bang on,will be great to see

spinaltap

Thanks Stuey that was quick, will be defo adding in video tutorials from other video websites trying to get the best ones.
I will add in a directory of all the golf courses in Ireland,( where would I get that) maybe I will have a separate section where people can rate the differnt courses and tell others about the differant holes and how best to approach them , thanks

1stuey1

spinaltap wrote: »

Thanks Stuey that was quick, will be defo adding in video tutorials from other video websites trying to get the best ones.
I will add in a directory of all the golf courses in Ireland,( where would I get that) maybe I will have a separate section where people can rate the differnt courses and tell others about the differant holes and how best to approach them , thanks

www.gui.ie
www.teetimes.ie im not too sure. good idea to have a list off courses and get people to rate and maybe write comments on?? maybe prices etc? could be handy becasue i dont know half the course around haha

spinaltap

That would seem a better idea, let the members rate the courses as it would be independent then , unlike some other sites where they are trying to promote the courses for financial reward I would prefer if the review waas honest and gave good as well as bad points,cheers stuey

1stuey1

spinaltap wrote: »

That would seem a better idea, let the members rate the courses as it would be independent then , unlike some other sites where they are trying to promote the courses for financial reward I would prefer if the review waas honest and gave good as well as bad points,cheers stuey

exactly! u can regulate the comments incase of spam etc
have as many courses as you can in each area...i can help with wicklow if you want. then maybe there website beside it and comments etc. at least then if i wanna play somewhere you can check wat the latest updates from people are etc. maybe sections about membership etc like whats in this forum?
maybe even rating clubs gear etc balls as alot of members here have used alot of them they can help? just a suggestion!

spinaltap

That would be great if I could get any help from the members here in boards.
As this is not a money making website , I would just like to get as many features on the site that I can, ones that other sites dont have, great if you could help me stuey

1stuey1

spinaltap wrote: »

That would be great if I could get any help from the members here in boards.
As this is not a money making website , I would just like to get as many features on the site that I can, ones that other sites dont have, great if you could help me stuey

no prob man when ever ya need pm me and il do my best.

Mister Sifter

Spinal Tap, take a look here... i'd say this will help you out no end...

http://www.golfingireland.ie/

Click on golf clubs at the bottom of the page and it gives pretty much every course in Ireland.

Also, there's a couple of sites out there that already do the whole 'post a review of a course' thing so getting your own niche on it would be better perhaps.

Good luck with it though, look forward to seeing it.

WillyWonka

Graeme1982 wrote: »

Spinal Tap, take a look here... i'd say this will help you out no end...

http://www.golfingireland.ie/

Click on golf clubs at the bottom of the page and it gives pretty much every course in Ireland.

Also, there's a couple of sites out there that already do the whole 'post a review of a course' thing so getting your own niche on it would be better perhaps.

Good luck with it though, look forward to seeing it.

here's one

http://www.ratemygolfcourse.ie/

stevire

Dont mean to blow my own trumpet but this website has a lot the things you just mentioned:

http://www.golfingunited.com (see my sig!!)

Mister Sifter

WillyWonka wrote: »

here's one

http://www.ratemygolfcourse.ie/

yeh, that's the one i was thinking of. Not great, and certainly something that could be greatly improved upon.

Any site surely needs to have a niche. No offence SteveIre, but from looking at your site, i don't see the point in it.

stevire

Graeme1982 wrote: »

yeh, that's the one i was thinking of. Not great, and certainly something that could be greatly improved upon.

Any site surely needs to have a niche. No offence SteveIre, but from looking at your site, i don't see the point in it.

None taken! Bit of side project that I never got around to finishing!

Main point was to have Golf Club listings and Golf Lessons Listing, I know there available already but not on the same website as far as i'm aware. And where people can rate/review golf courses and instructors... Plus as said before they're all promoting certain courses on other websites....

Suggestions/Criticism etc always welcome!

Mister Sifter

stevire wrote: »

None taken! Bit of side project that I never got around to finishing!

Main point was to have Golf Club listings and Golf Lessons Listing, I know there available already but not on the same website as far as i'm aware. And where people can rate/review golf courses and instructors... Plus as said before they're all promoting certain courses on other websites....

Suggestions/Criticism etc always welcome!

I think the lessons / instructors idea is an interesting one. A list, with user feedback/reviews would be very handy. Just look at the number of people on here who come on looking for advice about which pro to go to.

I'd certainly like to see something like that on a website.

stevire

Graeme1982 wrote: »

I think the lessons / instructors idea is an interesting one. A list, with user feedback/reviews would be very handy. Just look at the number of people on here who come on looking for advice about which pro to go to.

I'd certainly like to see something like that on a website.

Yeah that could be done, need people to post feedback/reviews though!!
Could have a section with the latest reviews or something... If you click on an instructor/golf course you can add a review...

Sorry for derailing spinaltap...

gerp

Great idea about rating golf courses and PGA golf instructors.

Alot of cowboys out there.

gerp

Great idea to rate golf courses and PGA golf instructors.

Alot of cowboys out there.

You can get the videos from UTUBE

spinaltap

Dont worry bout derailing me , as you said there are sites out there simmilar, I just wanna add all there best features onot one site, which is work in progress and have a web 2.0 look and feel to it, sure if there was no competition the web would be basic html still.
Greatly appreciate all the feedback I have recieved and I will be finished in a few weeks so If anyone has any ideas please feel free to PM me, I gaurentee if I get a few people saying they want x in the site, I will have X in the site, cheers guys/girls

spinaltap

If any one would like to suggest a name for the new site please feel free to do so, looking for a .ie name , I would like to get people involved from the start as it is a community based website for golfers by golfers sounds like a cliche, not meant to be though

shaneon77

as i'm not a member anywhere i use an english website golfshake.com to enter in the details of my rounds which gives me back info on my playing handicap. might be an option too?

spinaltap

Thanks for that idea, I am looking into that as we speak and how to intergrate that into the website, could be a popular attraction, can you tell me how it works if you get a chance, cheers

stevire

spinaltap wrote: »

Thanks for that idea, I am looking into that as we speak and how to intergrate that into the website, could be a popular attraction, can you tell me how it works if you get a chance, cheers

To develop that would take a lot of time, money and effort. Do you have any experience in web development?

spinaltap

Yes I have done quite a few websites now, using dreamweaver adobe photoshop etc, just not sure how you would intergrate your handicap into the site.

spinaltap

I see that you use Joomla for your, was it just the content management or did you do the whole site there

stevire

spinaltap wrote: »

Yes I have done quite a few websites now, using dreamweaver adobe photoshop etc, just not sure how you would intergrate your handicap into the site.

Thats not what I meant when I mentioned web development!! I meant Javascript/jQuery/PHP/AJAX etc etc

spinaltap wrote: »

I see that you use Joomla for your, was it just the content management or did you do the whole site there

No, I used the CMS for the whole login system, the rating system is all based on PHP and mySQL and the Forum is phpBB integrated with the CMS (to allow the users to sync)

As i said before, I did it as a side project. Mainly to test out CMS and its features...

spinaltap

Its looks good on all accounts, fair play, Nearly finished mine , should be next week, have the phb forum, programmin isnt up to much so I have someone doing that for me, not easy to get up and running, sure it will take plenty of time, have the domain in with the iedr at the moment so fingers crossed for the .ie, thanks for your advise

stevire

Fair play that was quick.... A hint if you havent done programming, check out widgets being offered, or youtube widgets (you could add and allow others to add golf lesson youtube videos to play on your website).

stevire

An example of youTube widget: http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/youtube-videos

Just search Google for "youtube widget" I'm sure there are better options out there...

Mister Sifter

www.agoodwalkspoiled.ie?

spinaltap

Thanks for that info , I will be adding that widget from you tube as well as differant categories for golf tutorials, golf shake will be time consuming but definetly worth while to do , looking forward to finishing it now, any ideas on getting members apart from emailing the clubs, cheers

spinaltap

So I am now intergrating the function to rate courses and rate instructors

spinaltap

AS you can see I have now choosen and recieved confirmation that I have the domain irishgolfer.ie, the site will be ready in 10 days tops,and there isnt much to see yet but I will inform you when its live, its free to use, free video which members can also upload, free classified section , free forum , free rating for courses and instructors and it will be updated daily with Irish golf news and international news, like an online magazine like golf digest ireland only without the hefty 6.50 euro cost, looking for members that wish to rate or upload news and videos if anyone is interested , many thanks, lets know , anymore ideas I can add in