The Freedom Fan Page Webring is a collection of websites for fans supporting the Freedom and its players. See below for suggestions and information on creating your own website and joining us.
1. Go to yahoo.com
2. Click on "geocities"
3. Click on "sign up for a free website"
4. If you do have a yahoo id, sign in
If you do not have a yahoo id, sign up for one (It is free). Then sign in
5. Click on "yahoo page builder"
6. Clink on "launch page builder"You will get a blank slate to work with. You can add text, pictures, etc. You can make more than one page and link them together. If you need help, feel free to email (hrolin@longwood.edu) or AIM (Ready2Teach526) me.
The Freedom roster page - http://www.washingtonfreedom.com/team/
The Freedom fan zone archive - http://www.washingtonfreedom.com/fan_zone/archive.html
The WUSA roster page - http://www.wusa.com/players_coaches/washington/
Womenssoccer.com - http://www.womenssoccer.com/
The latter two will often have articles about the players as well.
You can also do Web searches. I mostly use Google. To minimize "hits," put the name in quotes. For example, enter
"Jen Grubb"
rather than just
Jen Grubb
because the former will find the full name while the latter will find any page that has both "Jen" and "Grubb" in it, whether they're together or not.
Be sure to check for name variants, too: "Jennifer Grubb" as well as "Jen Grubb."
And remember that patience is a virtue. I found a wonderful article and interview with Carrie Moore done for the club team she grew up with on about the fourth page of links that Google came back with.
As for photographs, scour the Freedom website. Look particularly for pages where they have slideshows, such as:
The community page - http://www.washingtonfreedom.com/community/
The fan zone page - http://www.washingtonfreedom.com/fan_zone/
The roster page - http://www.washingtonfreedom.com/team/
Yellow Card Journalism is also a good site for photographs, particularly ones from games.
Feel free to ask me (kevinwparker@cosmiverse.com) as well - I take numerous photos of the Freedom
at events, and not all of those make it to my website.
I'll add other advice here as time goes on.
Once you've joined, you should add the webring box (with all the navigation buttons) to your website. Bravenet will send you the source code for this.
If you're on a host that doesn't allow direct HTML editing of your page, just add a link to the webring page at Bravenet (http://pub21.bravenet.com/sitering/nav.php?usernum=1743197542&action=list&siteid=38272). (Heather and I tried all kinds of ways of adding the webring box, but none of them worked satisfactorily.)
I have to give permission for the website to be added, so I'll take a quick look at the site and make sure it's appropriate (see "Do's and don'ts," below) before telling Bravenet to add you to the ring. Once I have done so, you'll get an email indicating that you've been added.