Who doesn't want the coolest website in town? Now you can with our custom border option on the customizable templates, allowing you to add a border around your main site content with either color or an image.

To do so, navigate to the Customize section of your Site Appearance folder in Admin.

1) Select the Border tab at the top of the page.

2) Select either an image and/or border color.

Why select an image?

Selecting an image gives you the option to choose where it displays on your page or as repeating. Checking the "repeat" option as "both" allows you to encompass the entire border with an image.

What if I want both - a color AND an image?

No problem! If you select both a color and add an image, be sure the image can be seen with your selected border color.

Here's a site that selected a border color to display with the same color as their background.

www.eteamz.com/dnl

Here's a site that uploaded a custom border image.

www.eteamz.com/fckll

Hi Everyone!

We have another exciting Snapshotz contest set up for you for the month of September! Enter your snapshotz for a chance to win a $100 Restaurant.com gift card, courtesy of ActiveSports! Submit your snapshot by September 30th.

Increase your chances of winning by submitting as many photos as you like and if you're the winner, you'll be selected on October 1 and featured in the October eteamzNation newsletter and in our eteamz community.

So, if you think you've got the winning photo, upload now and share with your family and friends to vote, vote, vote!

Did you know that when you choose one of the new, customizable templates, it will ONLY change the appearance of your site and you won't lose any information? Your schedules, rosters, site news, and other information are safe. And even better, with a new template, you can have 100% customization!

So why not choose a new template when you can customize your logos, banner, menu, content and content placement, borders and control how much customization your sub-sites can have?

Select a new template today by:

• Clicking your Site Appearance folder

• Click the "Customize" folder

• Use the scrollbar located at the top to select any of the templates

• Choose from various color palettes, fonts, image layouts and more

You can even see the changes before you save them. Once you've found the template and color design you like, make sure to click save changes in the upper right. So, what are you waiting for? Get customizing today!

Still have questions? Reference the Site Customization FAQs link located to the right just under the templates scrollbar.

We wanted to let you know about a few changes regarding our partnership with Shutterfly.  After a successful three years, our integrated partnership with Shutterfly has ended.  We appreciate the quality service they have provided to eteamz customers and enjoyed having them as part of the team.  Due to this change, you'll no longer be able to upload photos directly to your Shutterfly account from within eteamz.  You can, however, continue to upload pictures directly onto eteamz through the Albumz folder in the site admin tool.  There is no need to worry about your existing Shutterfly albumz; your photos will still be displayed on your eteamz site and still located on the Shutterfly service. 

So how do you get started with the new eteamz Albumz when it launches?  That's the best news yet!  There's nothing special for you to do - we'll do all the work for you!  All your eteamz Albumz will automatically be transferred to our new eteamz Albumz and links to your existing Shutterfly Albumz will still be available on your eteamz site for as long as you keep those photos on the Shutterfly service. 

Please feel free to contact eteamz support if you have any questions and thank you for being an eteamz customer and allowing us to share in your active lifestyle.

We've been working diligently to improve your photo albumz experience on eteamz.

Here's a sneak-peek at some exciting new features we'll be adding!

• Cinematically view, browse and share your photos directly in your eteamz site

• Create slideshows & share with one-click posting to your website

• Oodles of editing and design options via our picnik integration

• Drag-n-Drop photos from one album to another

• Customize and buy prints, calendars, mugs, cards and more!

And get this! Along with the new eteamz Albumz Center, you'll be able to purchase 5GB of storage space at a price lower than you pay for 20MB today! Be sure to take advantage of this offer when the new eteamz Albumz Center goes live! Now that's something to get excited about!

Best of all, there's nothing special for you to do - we'll do all the work for you. We simply wanted to share the exciting news!

We just know you're going to love the new photo experience on eteamz just as much as we do and can't wait for you to see it in action so STAY TUNED or learn more!

Of course you want your eteamz website to perfectly match your team colors...especially when they're fluorescent orange and baby blue. Well here's a tip to help you easily customize your website colors to perfectly match your team!

From the Customize folder,

1) Select a color by clicking the color box and choose either one of our eteamz standard colors or enter your own HEX code number in the box at the bottom right

2) Click the green "SAVE" button in the upper right of the page

3) Click the close button and your new color selection will automatically appear on your web site

If you're not familiar with HEX codes, using the following color guide will help you find nearly any shade under the sun. This guide displays 2 columns with different color codes - one for RGB color code and the other for the HEX #. Make sure you use the column for "HEX #" which is consistent with what we use on the eteamz sites.

Don't have one of our new fully-customizable templates? Simply login and upgrade to PLUS. From your Site Appearances, then Customize folder you'll be able to change the colors of your site.

And don't forget to submit your colorful new site to our monthly Spotlight Site Contest.

Posting news on your website is a great way to keep your members up to date on the latest team news. So it's important to know how to jump in and make edits. Here are 5 easy steps to quickly edit your site news and keep your site as up to date as possible.

1) Go to you're My Site News folder within Site Admin

2) Select the appropriate category from the drop down menu found in the upper right of the page (you will have one category on a free site and can add up to 16 pages/news categories on PLUS sites)

3) Click "Go" and it will bring up the list of news items you've posted

4) Click the box for the news item you'd like to edit

5) Click on the pencil icon to the right and begin editing.

Be sure to click the "Update My Site News" button to save any changes.

Not a PLUS member? Login and Upgrade to PLUS now!

Sure you want to load up your site with great photos, but try to compress your images so that you can maximize the disc space on your website.

If using a digital camera or a scanner, you should have some kind of imaging software that came with it to help adjust the DPI size. If you can't locate your software, the best free download I've found is called Irfanview. As an added bonus, you can also use Irfanview for resizing images (changing the height or width of your photo or image) prior to upload if you wish.

You will need to edit and size the images before uploading them to your site. For best results use a 72 dpi setting. Typically, a 300 dpi will create a very large graphic file even if the image is small.

For example a 1 x 1 inch image at 300 dpi would be about 270k as where a 1 x 1 inch image at 72 dpi would be only about 4.3k - obviously a big difference that can ultimately save you tons of site space!