Written by Smithy on July 30th, 2011
The Scottish FA. is proud to announce a new scheme to raise cash for the Tartan Army Children’s Charity.
Over the coming months the Scottish FA will be placing a number of items up for auction on their brand new new e-Bay charity site. Many of these will be exclusive, money can’t buy items coming directly from the Scottish FA. or courtesy of their sponsors.
The items currently up for grabs are listed below
You could find yourself mingling with the stars in the players’ lounge, watching your child walk out with the team at Hampden or even have the chance to grace the hallowed turf in a half time charity challenge
By bidding on these items, not only are you showing your support and love for the Scottish National Team, you will also be raising a great deal of money for a fantastic charity making a difference to childrens’ lives in Scotland and beyond
Every penny raised on these auctions goes directly to the TACC. So please make your bid count!
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Written by Smithy on July 30th, 2011
The Scottish FA are giving you the opportunity to bid on this exclusive "money can't buy" item.
The winning bidder on this item will be able to take 5 friends along to watch the National Team in a full training session prior to their upcoming friendly against Denmark. In addition to this, you will also be taken for a full tour of Hampden Park. T's & C's apply*
The money raised from this exclusive "money can't buy" auction will go to the Tartan Army Children's Charity in order to help disadvantaged children in Scotland. More information can be found at www.tartanarmychildrenscharity.org.uk
*At least one attendee must be over the age of 18. The attendee's must be available to attend the training session on Tuesday 9th December. Travel and accommodation (if applicable) is not included in this auction. Payment must be received by 1pm on Monday 8th August.
More information here
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Written by Smithy on August 14th, 2010
Recently we were hearing that some Tartan Army Clubs were having difficulties setting up and maintaining a club website. Over the years we've noticed many websites start and quickly fall out of date and then die. There are 99 TA Clubs on Tartan Army dot Net - but 33 of these websites have disappeared in the last 2 years.
With this in mind we have set up a sample website that doesn't need much updating and doesn't cost much to run, once set up - Sample Tartan Army - http://sample.tartanarmy.net/
The website "System"
The website uses a system called WordPress. Its an easy to use system that works through your browser (internet explorer, Firefox etc) - it works quite like a simple word processor.
Sample Tartan Army was set up in a way that won't require regular updating. It's also possible to change it so you can post updates easily. The latest news appears on the front page below the "about" information.
The Costs
Unfortunately nothing is free in this life. The prices below reflect a fair representation of the time and costs involved in setting up a website. Sample Tartan Army took about 5 hours from start to finish. You may be able to find cheaper places to host your website, but may face extra unseen costs or be plagued by banner advertising, pop ups etc.
Web Address / Domain Name
Each website needs an address. A website needs at least one address, or it can have many addresses. Choose at least one of the following.
- <ta-name>.tartanarmy.net - £5 per year
- <ta-name>.co.uk - £20 for 2 years
- <ta-name>.org.uk - £20 for 2 years
- <ta-name>.com - £20 per year
- <ta-name>.org - £20 per year
Hosting
Each website needs somewhere to sit. This is knows as Web Hosting. Our hosting is based in London's Docklands and is currently running 99.99% of the time. We supply 40mb of storage and 1gb of bandwidth a month. This is more than adequate for a website such as Sample Tartan Army. We recomend Flickr for hosting photographs and Youtube for videos. This helps to keep costs down.
- Hosting per year - £40 (40mb storage + 1gb bandwidth per month)
- Extra storage and bandwidth available if required at extra cost
Email Addresses
Each website comes with one email address. This can be set up an actual email account or it can be forwarded on to an existing account elsewhere (such as Gmail). The default email account has 20mb of storage space
- Additional email accounts - £5 per year (20mb of storage)
New pages / Editing of existing web pages
- Per additional new page - £10
- Per small updated to a page - £5
Anything not covered above?
If you wish to design your own website we can still help. For a price please use the Contact Tartan Army dot Net page
I'm interested - what next?
If you're interested please contact us through the Contacts page. Let us know what kind of thing you'd like and we'll give you a price. If you’d like to go ahead payment would be by Paypal or Bank Transfer.
Notes
- You will need to write the content for your website - we can then edit it and place it on the website
- You're choice of domain name may have already been taken and you may need to make a new choice
- Payment terms 30 days
- For new sites, payment will be required in advance
- If invoices are not paid, the website will be removed or redirected
- No hosting of movies, MP3 files or similar
- No pornographic images etc
- Nothing illegal may be hosted on the website
Posted in: General Tartan Army
Written by Smithy on July 21st, 2010
The New Scotland Away Top has been revealed accidentally after it went on sale in an Sports Shop.
Tartan Army Message Board member Bart spotted in it an Edinburgh sport's shop earlier today. It was only available in a child size at the time and was mixed in with the older (diadora) yellow goalie tops. The current goalie top is sky blue.
The shirt is basically a yellow version of the current home top. Yellow front and back, Adidas 3 strips down each arm, Adidas logo on right, SFA logo on right.
The away top wasn't supposed to be available until the 18th August. It's due to be worn against Sweden on the 11th August.
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Written by Smithy on June 11th, 2010
The brand new Scotland International Football Shirt for 2010 has finally hit the shops.
Kitbag are among the first online retailers to have the new top in stock and available for delivery.
The shirts are available in the following sizes:-
- Small - 36 - 38 inch chest
- Medium - 38/40
- Large - 42/44
- Extra Large - 44/46
- XXL - 46/48
- Kids - 8, 10, 12, 14 years
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