Your club's website, in your club's colours

Every club has someone who cares about how the website looks. Usually they’re also the person doing the rego night, the grant application and the canteen roster, so the website stays however it came out of the box.

This update is for that person.

Make it yours

You can now build a theme for your whole TidyHQ site: your colours in the navigation, the footer and the buttons, right down to how round the corners are. Add an edge-to-edge banner across your homepage, or a video if you’ve got one. And strip out the things that always made club sites feel generic: hide the breadcrumbs, drop the page title, run a wide logo without your club name squeezed next to it.

The theme isn’t just for your content pages. It carries across your events, your shop, memberships and checkout: everywhere a member, parent or sponsor ends up.

The bits you shouldn’t have to think about

Two things we spent a lot of time on that you’ll hopefully never notice:

• Speed. Your pages need to load fast, for the parent on their phone at training and for Google. Performance stays a top priority, which is also why uploaded videos have some size and format limits.
• Readability. Some club colour combinations are glorious on a jumper and unreadable on a screen. When that happens, we adjust the tints, greys and contrast automagically, so your pages stay accessible without you touching a thing.

A nicer way to build

The page builder is now drag and drop (buttons, images, text blocks) with a live preview, so you can see exactly what you’re publishing before you hit the button. If you’ve used our email builder, you’ll feel at home; this is built on top of it.

See one in the wild

We used a real project as the litmus test for the new builder: growingforgold.com.au, the Come and Try Day program we run with the Government of South Australia’s Office for Recreation, Sport and Racing, their councils, and the clubs underneath them. It’s a simple site, just a few pages, which is rather the point. Have a poke around.

Early access

We’re rolling this out gradually. If you want it on your club’s site, comment your TidyHQ address under the video on YouTube or Facebook, or send it through our contact page, and we’ll add you to the list.