Improve your Tournament's Web Site
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The day appears to be coming when most tournament administration will be done on the Internet ― without mailings or telephone calls. Here is a straightforward method of providing all relevant information about your event on its USTA web page.
Use the Tournament Messages section on the General tab in TDM to create a series of paragraphs.
Each Headline is displayed in bold as a caption to the message that follows.
Use Headlines such as "General", "Conditions", "Consolations", "Awards", "Facilities", "Driving Directions" and "Motels".
The content of Messages can be improved by adding coded symbols at key points. Letters inside the angle brackets <> are web directives for changing how text is displayed. The character string <p> causes a new paragraph to be displayed; the string <b> causes the following text to be displayed in bold. To end a web directive, use the same combination with a "/" preceding the letter, e.g. </b> ends the bold setting and reverts the display to regular font.
As with all changes recorded in TDM, perform an Upload Tournament (Ctrl-U) to transmit the changes recorded on your PC to the Internet.
Here is a link to a 2009 Category II National that has followed this approach.
