1. Introduction
1.1 Using this Guide
2. Building your Web Site
2.1 The Home Page
2.2 Adjusting the menu
2.3 The Site Menu
2.4 Populating with basic data
2.4.1 Home Page
2.4.2 Calendar
2.4.3 Calendar Month
2.4.4 Information Page
2.4.5 Membership
2.4.6 People Database
2.5 More Features
2.5.1 Competitions and Ladders
2.5.2 Using Pictures
2.5.3 Using Documents
2.5.4 Displaying Hand of the Week
2.5.5 Site Style/Themes
2.5.6 More Calendar features
2.5.7 Login Passwords
2.5.8 Find a Partner
2.5.9 Bookings/Reservations
3. Using your Web Site - Administration
3.1 Scoring Software and Results Upload
3.1.1 Automatic upload
3.1.2 Results Administration
3.1.3 Results Files
3.1.4 Uploading the deal file
3.1.5 Amend or delete results
3.1.6 Setting Up for American Style
3.2 News Pages
3.3 Maintaining your calendar
3.4 Set up your Membership database
3.4.1 Add a Member
3.4.2 Member Only features
3.4.3 GDPR
3.4.4 What can Members Do?
3.5 Listing other clubs
3.5.1 Club Database
4. Using your Web Site - Members
4.1 Setting your password
4.2 Using Find a Partner
4.2.1 Find a Partner using Calendar Month Menu
4.2.2 Find a Partner using Member Only Tab
4.2.3 Making a reservation ( booking)
4.3 Download results
4.4 EBU NGS Grades
4.5 Results Display
4.5.1 Results Features
4.5.2 Personal Results Analysis
4.5.3 Card Analysis
4.5.4 Hand Evaluation
4.5.5 Movement options
4.5.6 Play it Again
4.5.7 Results Analysis
4.5.8 Results Display 2022 Edition
4.6 Personal Analysis
5. Trouble Shooting
5.1 Makeable contracts not displaying
5.2 Photos not displaying or displaying upside down
5.3 Passwords
5.3.1 Member password
5.4 Exporting list of members
5.5 Logging into bridgewebs from phone
5.6 How do you know if your site is on latest release
5.7 How do I set column widths
5.8 How do I change club name
5.9 How do I change the number of results appearing on the home page
5.9.1 Same person with records under two names
5.9.2 Results not properly uploaded
5.9.3 Showing slams in ranking table
5.10 Backups
5.11 Email groups
6. More on uploading results
6.1 General
6.1.1 Login Code
6.1.2 Set your Scoring Software
6.1.3 Predealt Hands
6.1.4 Wireless Scoring
6.1.5 Calendar Matching
6.2 Uploading from Scorebridge
6.2.1 Initial Setup Club Code and Password
6.2.2 Initial Setup Standard Outputs
6.2.3 Automatic Upload of Results each time
6.3 Uploading from EBUScore
6.4 Uploading from BrIan
6.5 Uploading from CompScore
6.6 Uploading ACBL results using Results Administration
6.6.1 If you use predealt hands
6.6.2 ACBL Live
6.7 Uploading ACBL results using Scorepost
6.7.1 Scorepost Setup
6.7.2 Save the Setup File
6.7.3 Scorepost Results Administration
6.8 Recover results files
6.9 Uploading using other scoring software
6.10 Multiple events on one day
6.11 Live Ranking
6.12 ACBL Master Points
6.13 ACBL Game Master Points
6.14 ACBL BWS File
6.15 Windows Firewall
7. Bridge Online
7.1 BBO Results
7.1.1 Method 1 Use BBO Extractor or other software
7.1.2 Method 2 Enter BBO Session Number into Calendar
7.1.3 Hints for accessing results of a BBO Session
7.1.4 Hints for translating the BBO Username to actual name
7.1.5 BBO ACBL Virtual Games
7.1.6 What is a CSV file?
7.2 BCL Virtual Clubs
7.3 RealBridge
7.4 ACBL@Live BBO Results
7.5 Stepbridge
7.6 Attendance/Table Money/Fees
8. Deal Files
8.1 Hand Generating software
8.2 Creating deal files
8.3 Deal Uploading
8.4 Play it Again software
8.5 EBU/ECATS Simultaneous sessions
8.6 Jannersten BOS/Duplimapp
8.7 Widgets
9. Web Pages
9.1 News Items
9.1.1 Changing/splitting pages
9.2 Editor
9.2.1 Editor usage
9.3 Add a Link
9.4 Forms
9.4.1 Forms emails
9.4.2 Message Board
9.5 Add Special Content/Widget
9.6 Hand of the week
9.7 Membership lists
9.7.1 Adding Extra Fields
9.8 Picture Gallery
9.8.1 To add a single picture to a news item
9.8.2 Using the editor
9.8.3 Using the Add Picture button
9.9 Page Options
9.9.1 Page Sequence
9.10 Themes and site style
9.11 Additional Features
10. The Calendar
10.1 Calendar Fields
10.2 Amending the Calendar
10.3 Highlighting Calendar Events
10.4 Quick Update
10.5 The Schedule
10.6 Calendar Options
10.7 Calendar Sharing
10.8 Suspending Calendar
10.9 Links to Online Bridge
10.10 Access to BBO Results
11. Competitions
11.1 Competition Features
11.2 Eligible Dates
11.2.1 User Selected Dates
11.2.2 Auto Dates
11.3 Presentation
11.4 Restrictions
11.5 Rules
11.6 Handicaps
11.6.1 Rolling Handicap
11.6.2 Calculating handicap for a pair
11.6.3 Manual Handicaps
11.6.4 NGS Handicaps
11.7 Name changes and aliases
11.8 Ascendancy Tables
11.9 NGS grades
11.10 Interclub
12. Club Location
13. The Menu
13.1 Amending the Menu
13.2 Adding Pages
13.3 Adding Documents
13.4 Member Only Menu
14. Pictures
14.1 Picture Library
14.2 Videos
14.3 Picture and Video upload
14.4 Membership pictures
14.5 Favicon
15. Documents
15.1 Document formats
15.2 Document Upload
15.3 Document Usage
15.4 Private Documents
16. Membership Features
16.1 Update your Membership Database
16.1.1 Synchronization
16.1.2 Import/Export
16.1.3 ACBL player file
16.1.4 Player Database
16.1.5 EBUScore Synchronization
16.2 Members Only Page
16.3 Calendar Features
16.4 Bulk email
16.4.1 To send "Bulk Email"
16.4.2 Email Selection Criteria
16.4.3 Mail Merge
16.4.4 Emailing Documents
16.4.5 Bulk Email Templates
16.5 PayPal Payments
16.5.1 PayPal Button
17. Email Queries
17.1 Emails not received
17.2 Bulk Email log
17.3 Email Service
18. Attendance Module
18.1 Attendance Overview
18.2 Attendance Basics
18.3 Options
18.4 Payment Rates
18.5 Attendance Operation
19. Social Module
19.1 Social Module Administration
20. Toolkit
20.1 Help Topics
20.2 Web Administration Set Up
21. Other important stuff
21.1 Adaptive design
21.2 Bridgewebs BackUps
21.3 Cut and Paste
21.4 Domain
21.5 PDF Files
21.6 Performance
21.7 Results only service
21.8 Security Settings
21.9 Spam
21.10 Site Statistics
21.11 Time Zone
21.12 Twitter
21.13 Upgrades
21.14 Browse Button
21.15 Web Searches
21.16 Character Sets
22. Programmer Notes
22.1 Player DB Synchronization
22.2 ScoreBridge Player Synch
22.3 CSV Format
22.4 API Interface
22.5 API Sample Code
22.6 Integrated Calendar Check
22.7 PBN Files
BridgeWebs User Guide
21. Other important stuff
21.9 Spam

Spam and Hacking is a growing problem and  affects Bridgewebs and its users as much as any other web site.

There are 2 aspects that are considered.

  • Keeping email addresses away from the general public
  • Ensuring emails sent from Bridgewebs are "Spam Detector" friendly

Security is taken seriously and several modifications have been made to Bridgewebs over time to help combat this "menace"

  • Emails from the "Bulk Email" feature are sent individually to the recipients, it doesn't use the "cc" feature, so users or any hacker having access to a particular email account doesn't have access to a list of emails from the club
  • Any Database Emails shown publicly on a "Club" web site are shown with an envelope icon and a user has to click twice to obtain an email. This is Human readable, but prevents Spammers "Harvesting" Email addresses
  • There is also an option to "protect" emails on the "Member Only" - "Member List" to provide the same Spam check popup box
  • Entries on "Contact Us" / "Form" pages are checked for reasonableness and if considered Spam, such as reserved words, suspect hyperlinks, too large are redirected to the Bridgewebs Spam email.
  • Entries submitted via the "Contact Us" / "Form" pages generate 2 emails, one to the submitter and one to the club recipient, so that the submitter is unable to get the "Administrators" email.
  • Users require an email to view the Member list.
  • Passwords for the "Members Only" pages are randomly generated by Bridgewebs to ensure they are sufficiently unique and not something simple that the user might put in.
  • All requests to "Join" the Bridgewebs Forum are now manually verified.
  • System generated emails have been moved to a specialist Email provider with increased logging, spam validation and protection.
  • System generated emails conform to acceptable standards, i.e.. have an "unsubscribe" link

On the "Priority To Do" list is a change to the "Forgotten Password" procedure. This will be changed to a timed "Reset Password" so that the password isn't sent out in an email and the request must be actioned within a certain time e.g.. 24 hours. This will greatly minimize the possibility of a password being "stolen".

One of the adverse consequences of the success of Bridgewebs is that Bridgewebs is now a large site and some tens of thousands of system generated emails are being sent out each month. Many of these Emails will look the same and it is possible that Email Providers may decide they are Spam and send them to a User's "Spam" folder. However large Bridgewebs may be in the Bridge circle, it is an absolute minnow generally and it is difficult to get these things corrected.

System Generated Emails

There are many factors in determining whether an email is Spam.

  • Email Account Reputation
  • Provision of standard format such as "Unsubscribe" button
  • The "From" address matches the Email Server address. This means that ALL emails must come from a Bridgewebs registered domain, currently members@bridgewebsemail.com. This is different to the bridgewebs.com domain to minimize the possibility of bridgeweb.com becoming blacklisted

Received Spam

If you receive emails such as "I am on holiday in Spain and lost my wallet....", PLEASE do not Open, do not Click on any link, do not Reply, just Delete.

If the email has come from your email account have a look at

http://help.yahoo.com