GAA Website Design

Blue Magic

Hi all,

Thought I'd start a discussion on this. Very important PR aspect of running sports club, including GAA clubs.

How do you put a Twitter Feed up on a website which is not administered through a WordPress Account?

I understand about creating the Widget at the Twitter side which provides code to copy and paste but how do I finish the job then? I have managed to upload "buttons" which provide links to the Facebook and Twitter but a Twitter feed would be excellent for latest scores to the minute from games for those who don't have Twitter/Facebook access... It would also make the online PROing a lot more time efficient :-)

_ciaran_

What happens when you add the code for the twitter widget to your web page?
Can you paste the code you are trying to use here & link to the website?

mayo.mick

Copy & paste the code that the twitter widget generates and copy this code into a html text widget where you want to put it on your page.

Blue Magic

_ciaran_ wrote: »

What happens when you add the code for the twitter widget to your web page?
Can you paste the code you are trying to use here & link to the website?

www.ballinhassiggaa.ie

<a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/BallinhassigGAA&quot; data-widget-id="392421351144714240">Tweets by @BallinhassigGAA&lt;/a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>

It is registering as feed but not coming up visually if you follow me...

Thanks

Blue Magic

Sorted now lads. Thanks

Blue Magic

Do any clubs use online club lotto or online shop for club gear?

Is it frutiful?

Also, what kind of rate have website design companies charged for renovating your website?

Blue Magic

Is it possible to start administering an exisiting website with wordpress, which wasn't set up via Wordpress in first place?

Current website is in html format, an absolute nightmare to change and edit with tedious coding and limitations galore!

Itsdacraic

Sorry to hijack your thread, but just wondering if you know of any well designed GAA websites?
I'm looking for a bit of inspiration.

Would you consider starting your own site afresh on wordpress? Makes the management much easier and allows you to spread the work more as it's so easy to update.

Blue Magic

Itsdacraic wrote: »

Sorry to hijack your thread, but just wondering if you know of any well designed GAA websites?
I'm looking for a bit of inspiration.

Would you consider starting your own site afresh on wordpress? Makes the management much easier and allows you to spread the work more as it's so easy to update.

Possibly would consider this but a last gasp thing in our own case... A guy set it up himself free of charge but it's really dater html form...

www.carrigtwohillgaa.com
www.barryroegaa.ie
www.blackrockhurlingclub.com
www.athenrygaa.ie

A few links above to get ideas...

daymobrew

Blue Magic wrote: »

Is it possible to start administering an exisiting website with wordpress, which wasn't set up via Wordpress in first place?

Current website is in html format, an absolute nightmare to change and edit with tedious coding and limitations galore!

No. Someone would have to convert the existing html to WordPress.

There is a series of articles on TutsPlus.com about doing this.

pedatron

Blue Magic wrote: »

Sorted now lads. Thanks

Hi Blue Magic,

Currently going mental trying to embed the twitter feed to the Thurles Sarsfields website. How did you get it working?

Blue Magic

pedatron wrote: »

Hi Blue Magic,

Currently going mental trying to embed the twitter feed to the Thurles Sarsfields website. How did you get it working?

What you need to do is create a widget of code for your website in Twitter.

To create widget, sign into Twitter and go through following steps:
- Go to settings
- Click on Widgets
- Click on "Create New"
- To create your preferred Twitter Feed, choose height dimension {NOTE: Cannot do width for some reason!!??}, theme colour, etc.
- Then, click create widget and underneath the preview there is html code which you can copy and paste to your website in the preferred location....

If your website is Wordpress, there is a video on YouTube on how to do this directly to there also...

Hope this helps!

pedatron

Blue Magic wrote: »

What you need to do is create a widget of code for your website in Twitter.

To create widget, sign into Twitter and go through following steps:
- Go to settings
- Click on Widgets
- Click on "Create New"
- To create your preferred Twitter Feed, choose height dimension {NOTE: Cannot do width for some reason!!??}, theme colour, etc.
- Then, click create widget and underneath the preview there is html code which you can copy and paste to your website in the preferred location....

If your website is Wordpress, there is a video on YouTube on how to do this directly to there also...

Hope this helps!

Thanks for the quick reply! Yeah, I think I did all of this but when I copied and pasted the html code into the site all I get is a link to the twitter page to view the tweets rather than the actual widget. Can't figure it out for the life of me even after extensive googling!

mayo.mick

pedatron wrote: »

Thanks for the quick reply! Yeah, I think I did all of this but when I copied and pasted the html code into the site all I get is a link to the twitter page to view the tweets rather than the actual widget. Can't figure it out for the life of me even after extensive googling!

Are you posting the code into a html widget on the website?

pedatron

mayo.mick wrote: »

Are you posting the code into a html widget on the website?

Yes I think I am. Here is a preview of what I get when I copy and past the code.

mayo.mick

Are you pasting the "Follow Us" and "Tweets by" in the same html widget? Copy & paste the code for the follow us button in one html widget and the tweets by code into another html widget. Maybe that's whats causing the problem?

pedatron

mayo.mick wrote: »

Are you pasting the "Follow Us" and "Tweets by" in the same html widget? Copy & paste the code for the follow us button in one html widget and the tweets by code into another html widget. Maybe that's whats causing the problem?

Never thought of that. I'm away from my laptop now but I'll try when I'm home. Thanks so much for all the help.

mayo.mick

Try this code for your follow button (in its own html widget)

<a href="https://twitter.com/thurlessars&quot; class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-size="large">Follow @thurlessars&lt;/a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');</script>

Blue Magic

Free Twitter & Facebook buttons for your website:

http://www.niftybuttons.com/

Handy. Only really need the Facebook one as I've Twitter feed set up...