• How to Use the ATSC Web Site: A Guide for ATSC Team Managers and Web Volunteers

• Team name, age and gender group (e.g., U10G United)
• First and last name
• Email address
• Work and home phone numbers
• Preferred account password (alphanumeric and at least 8 characters long, e.g., 1234abcd!)

• A short article and links to a 13-page guide about how to log in and use the ATSC web site
• Low Resolution ATSC Logos for use on the web and team documents
• High Resolution ATSC Logos for use on bags, balls and shirts

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If your team's web volunteer needs training in how to use the administrative side of the ATSC web site, please contact the ATSC volunteer webmaster by sending an email to webmaster@atsc-va.org  and identify yourself as an ATSC volunteer.

ATSC Team Managers and Web Volunteers

ATSC Web Site

(handed out at the New Mangers Meeting June 30, 2004)

Using the ATSC Web Site     www.atsc-va.org

Nancy Etkin, Executive Director     administrator@atsc-va.org

Grant Smith, Director of Coaching   doc@atsc-va.org

Chug Roberts, volunteer webmaster   webmaster@atsc-va.org   (email sent to this address also goes to Nancy Etkin)  Please include team identifying information in all emails to the webmaster.

User Accounts

Team Managers and team web volunteers can get user accounts so they can update and work on their team’s web page.  Please send an email to webmaster@atsc-va.org with 1) team age and gender group and name (e.g., U10B Generals), 2) your full name, 3) work and 4) home phone numbers, 5) email address you want associated with your user account, and 6) a password (alphanumeric, at least 8 characters, e.g., !smith1986? - do not use any part of the team name in your password).  We will send you your user name and activate your account.

Search function

The ATSC site uses the Google search engine: see the upper right side under “Related Links”.  When clicking Search, a page will come up with a search box and links to a site map and a calendar of future events.

Personal Information

Do not post any personally identifying player information on any team-related web site. This means that you should not post player birthdays, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, or player names linked to photographs.  Personal information is available to anyone who has Internet access. 

Exception: College bound players who want Player Profiles posted can post personally identifying information. See the College section for more information.

Suggestions

Please send any suggestions for articles, new links, etc., to webmaster@atsc-va.org  We are eager to make the ATSC web site useful and usable for players, parents, coaches, refs and interested visitors.

Photographs

Please think about enlisting a parent to take some action shots of your team during the season. You can post several of these on your team page.  However, because large files slow down the entire ATSC web site, please optimize all photographs so they are no wider than 500 pixels and the file size is under 100k. 

We periodically rotate the action shots of players wearing authorized uniforms on the home page.  You can send up to 6 action shots (jpgs preferred) to webmaster@atsc-va.org   Photographs sent to the webmaster for use on the home page do NOT have to be optimized as we will crop and optimize for the home page. All parents should have seen and hopefully signed, as part of registration, permission to allow your team and ATSC to use photographs of their children on the ATSC web site.

FAQs

At present there are 2 FAQs on the web site: Parents and Registration.  We will develop more FAQs as needed.

Need More Help?

1) Please use the Search function to see if what you want is already on the web site.
2) See “How to Use the ATSC Web Site” at  http://www.atsc-va.org/resources/managerweb/64942.html and handed out at this meeting.