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In A Different League
NonLeagueNews24 has rapidly become the UK’s leading website for non-league football. The site was launched in August last year and covers the English National League System from the Blue Square Premier League down. We developed a bespoke content management system which provides the writing team with tools to publish news and match reports. The system also provides their panel of regular columnists with blogging tools. New content is automatically “tweeted” to social media site Twitter.
The site provides up to the minute fixtures and results, with a live “vidiprinter” on match days which pushes goal alerts and match updates out to the visitor’s browser in realtime. The vidiprinter functionality is based on the Meteor server, a persistent streaming HTTP (or “Comet”) server. The site consumes live data from a number of sources including XML feeds from a third party content provider, text messages from club officials via an SMS API, and manual input using the content management system.
The site currently attracts around 25,000 unique visitors a month.
Subscribe »Why Do We have A Blog?
There are several very good reasons why we have incorporated a blog into our web site. It’s relatively simple to do after all.
- A blog is great tool for quickly adding new content to a web site. We chose WordPress, and its ease of use means we are more likely to keep updating the site on a regular basis, whenever one of us has ten minutes to spare.
- Visitors like fresh content. Keeping the site updated will encourage people to come back again and again. It all helps when building an online presence and winning customer mindshare.
- Search engines like fresh content too. As long as we keep it relevant it all counts towards ratings.
- We’re creative types, and blogging is form of self-expression. When we’ve got something to say it won’t do to bottle it up.
- We’re good at what we do, and blogging about it is way of proving it to the world.
It all makes sense doesn’t it. Perhaps you should have a blog on your web site. Don’t think about it for too long though - give us a call…