The Start of Something Good

For the longest time, we have been talking about the need for a new website. Actions are already in place to give the Johnnies a new, better looking and organized webpage for the 2009-2010 season and beyond.

Home Teams Online is a website that creates homepages for sports teams and leagues of all sports, ages, levels, conferences, etc. The University of St. Thomas revamped its own homepage by switching to a Home Teams Online webpage a few years ago. The College of St. Benedict Girls Lacrosse team also switched to a Home Teams Online webpage and their league, the North Central Women's Lacrosse League, also used Home Teams Online for their homepage.

Although the previous website was free to use and maintain it was also difficult to manage and edit. Saint John's University has since gotten rid of the program that was originally used to create the website, Front Page 2003, on all campus computers. This makes it, again, very hard to edit since I am the only one with a copy of the program on my computer.

Having a Home Teams Online account will greatly benefit the program and give the Saint John's website the extra boost it has needed over previous years.

Unfortunately it does not come cheap. The site will require $95 a year to maintain. However we will get what we pay for. To see all the features we will get click here (we are pursuing the All-Star package).

Currently, the website is running under the basic package (schedule, scores and roster) which will work for now.

To see the current website and get a little preview of what the website will look like click here.

PLEASE let me know if you have any suggestions, comments or concerns regarding the new website!

Thank you! I will post more later!

- Mike Murakami
SJU Class of 2010
Webmaster, and Communications Officer