 Web Service |
This service is provided for bridge clubs and as such it is probable that the usage of the service is similar amongst similar sized clubs. It is not possible to predict how much any one web site will get used, but factors in the make-up of the club give an indication of the expected usage. Usage will arise from:
- Club Secretary - The club secretary and scorers will need to load results, news and other information. This will be particularly active in the early days of a web site, but will tail off once the site is up and running.
- Members - The majority of visits to the site will be by members wishing to know "what the results were last night", their position in competitions and what events are planned.
- Search - In order for visitors to find your club web site, it is necessary for the Search Sites, such as Google and Yahoo to visit the bridge club web site and extract pages from the bridge club site and load these into their database of useful pages. This they do on a regular basis, usually daily.
- Results - The results are stored on the web site and the no of tables/events played per week does impact on disk usage. Also, the more frequent and the larger the events, the more members there are, potentially, who will look at the results.
- Visitors - Visitors may wish to find where to play bridge.
A commerial "Web Hosting" company actually host the site, provide the necessary disk space, computer power, regular backup and restore if necessary, and more importantly, the connection to the world wide web to support the downloading of the quite large number of pages that might be surfed by the members each week, that will surely increase as more and more people start using broadband. |
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| Annual Subscription |
| In order to achieve a fixed price and minimize administration costs, the price of the service has been set to relate to the number of regular uploaded scored sessions that the club plays. The number/size of sessions is the closest indication of the number of members that may use the site and the complexity and size of the web site. The service is provided on an annual subscription basis:
New for August 2008 - Even Lower Rates
| Options |
Price |
| Club Web Site with a single session per week |
| Up to 8 tables per week |
£35 per year |
| Over 8 tables per week |
£40 per year | |
| Club Web Site with multiple sessions per week |
| Total the average number of tables you expect to upload each week |
| Web site with up to 10 tables per week |
£40 per year |
| For each extra 6 tables |
£10 per year |
| e.g. Total average number of tables 16 |
£50 per year |
| e.g. Total average number of tables 22 |
£60 per year |
| e.g. Total average number of tables 28 |
£70 per year |
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| County Web Site |
Individually
Priced
£60-£120 |
| Domain Name (.org.uk) |
£8 per year |
| ScoreBridge |
£45 ** |
| Bridgemate Pro |
See Bridgemates |
** This applies to new users of ScoreBridge only and is the price for a single user licence. All the BridgeWebs-ScoreBridge software extensions are covered in the standard web-site subscription. See www.scorebridge.com for full details.
Non uploaded events are ignored. Ad-hoc extra scored sessions may be discounted depending on the anticipated overall number of tables played and scores uploaded in a week, please give more details.
With regard to everything else on the Web Site, calendar, competitions, news, special pages, you may freely amend these at any time and as often as you like. |
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| Domain Names |
You do not need a domain for the trial period, you can use www.bridgewebs.com followed by the short name given to your club, such as www.bridgewebs.com/somewhere.
In fact you do not need a domain name at all, but many clubs like to have one. The domain you choose, such as www.somewherebridgeclub.org.uk or www.somewherebc.org.uk will be set up for you once you agree to go live. Domains are provided again on an annual subscription basis.
If you have an existing domain, then this can usually be transferred to BridgeWebs and there will not usually be any "domain" charge in the first year. |
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| Existing Web Sites |
| If you have an existing web site and a domain, it is quite possible that you will be paying a monthly or annual fee for this. In which case, unless you continue to use some other part of the package, you can save this cost. A number of clubs have moved to BridgeWebs and, as well as the advantage of BridgeWebs, saved money overall. |
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| Payment |
Payment by cheque, electronic transfer or PayPal.
There are no other web site costs for the club or club members, no FTP downloading software, no Word Processing, no Html Editor, just a PC and Browser and ScoreBridge. You will also be automatically upgraded to the latest BridgeWebs software at regular intervals. You might also need a digital camera to take pictures of your bridge club to upload and show to the rest of the world!! |
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