Portstewart FC

Research & discovery

What We Looked Into First

• The original site grew out of something simple: weekly match reports and photos that had previously only been posted to Facebook, where they were hard for fans to find again afterwards.
• An existing free WordPress.com site covered the basics but wasn't easy to find online or practical to maintain long-term - the real gap was a proper, findable home for the club.
• The original domain name had to be bought through a domain auction, since it was already registered to an unrelated site at the time.
• That site became the club's main website for several years, until the club changed hands under new ownership. It was offered to the new owners, who said they'd be taking the website in a different direction once new funding came through.
• That rebuild never materialised. With the club's own site left as a bare, static page without much useful information for fans, players or parents, the original site was revived and brought back up to date instead.
• Rebuilt using the same approach already proven on Limavady United FC's site - real season data modelled as structured data, so fixtures, results and the league table update from real sources rather than manual page edits.
• Kept continuously updated since, independent of the club itself, for the fans and people of Portstewart.
• Real sponsor logos and a Google Analytics integration added as the club's own needs became clear, rather than guessed upfront.