A Mogul To Be

Building a fantasy sports site

June 27th, 2007 by Robert

A good friend of mine is a writer, editor and big fantasy sports aficionado. I recently helped him set up a blog called ThePickToClick, where he posts (more frequently than I do I must say) about his obsession.

One day we were talking about various entrepreneurial things and I asked him if he could do anything he wanted what would be it? Well he quickly said that it would be to write about sports and fantasy leagues. I told him that I could set up the site for him and he could take it from there.

Step One - Work Out A Content Plan

He wrote up a content plan which helped me immensely in setting up the site’s sections and categories and gave me an idea of how the site should look so we didn’t have to do a whole lot of back and forth “take a look at this”. OK, we still did that but it was more for detail stuff than anything else.

Step Two - Install the CMS

There are a good number of open source CMS solutions out there, but I was fairly familiar with Joomla! so that is what I installed for him. I then went and found a good template via RocketTheme and installed that too.

I’ve spent the better part of a couple days getting the menus are set up correctly and doing some of the cool tab-like features for him as well as installing various module and components while he decided on how he wanted it to work and what the sections should look like. Naturally this required me to change things a few times, but so far it is looking pretty good.

Over the next few days and maybe week or two I’ll go into the various things I had to do to get the site running the way I wanted as well as the way he wanted. Covering topics like SEO, SEF, etc.

The site? Oh yea the site is RotoTown.com. If you are into fantasy sports check it out and if you are really into fantasy sports ask him to be a contributor or give us some ideas on what you would like see to improve it.

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