By: Dylanis

Dynasty Manager is a place filled with writing and HTML. While writing is the main aspect of DM, HTML is definitely the second. Although some great ways to show off your HTML skills can be put in your article, a much different one is the sidebar or your page. In it, you have the ability to do almost anything. Most DMers (people on DM) show their league's standings and their team's roster. For people new to computer language, you can easily make your standings and roster. If you have dealt with computer language before, or if you're willing to try it out for the first time, read on. If you are planning on opting for using the default way from your admin page, I will advise you to read on. There will be screenshots telling you how to do it the default way as well.

Lets start our sidebar tutorial with the simplest of all sidebar topics, the standings. If you are planning on editing your standings the default way, you would click the edit button next to the work standings. You should come to a page like this. Then, find the teams in your league in the separate drop-down menus and add in the wins, losses, etc. using the numbers on your keyboard. Its result will look something like this.

Perhaps you want a more interesting look than the plain text standings. I'll show you a simple HTML code that can produce the same information in another popular way. To view the HTML code, click here. Don't be distressed because it looks stretched out, because it won't look that way on your page. However, you won't know how to edit this code. For instruction on it, click here. Now that you have a cooler code and know how to edit it, you need to learn where to put it. At your DM 360 admin page, click the text edit next to where it says sidebar content. Put your standings code in the M2 section and make sure that the drop-down menu says "show M2 content". Go back to your admin page and make sure that the standings are turned off. Your result should look something like this.

Another important topic to cover is stat leaders. In this category, you can show off the statistical leaders for your team, or the league. For this I will not be supplying a code, but I'll show you how to do it the default way. First, click the "edit" button next to the word stat leaders as seen here. The screen where you edit t he stat leaders is similar to the way you edit your standings the default way. It's very simple and you should get a hang of it right away. To see a finished example of one, click here.

The other important thing for sidebars is your roster. Someone with HTML knowledge can make a table for your roster. If you go on the forums there will be some people willing to help you if you ask. For now, I'll show you how to do it the easy and simple way. Before I tell you how to do it, I must say that it can be very time consuming. If you are doing a baseball page, I would recommend doing the whole team. However, if you are doing a football page, I would advise only doing the starters and some backups who get in the game often. It can take a long time to do over 50 people, 25 is a good round number. First, you must click on the add button next to the word roster. You can see a screenshot here. After clicking add, you will be brought to a page that looks like this. It is easy to fill out all of the information and it should come to a finishing result that looks something along the lines of this. After putting in your roster, you will also have a page similar to this that will show your whole roster.

A very simple thing to update on your sidebar is your schedule. You can follow the links to add games to your schedule or edit them. After every article about a game, it is a good idea to put that summary in your game. You would be editing a game already in your schedule. A finished project of a schedule in mid-season can be seen here.

Some other cool things you could do with your sidebar content is linking to your other pages. You could make a table and put in small logos of the other teams you cover. When someone clicks on the logo, it brings them to the other page. A good example of one is Pujols4MVP's page. He has links to all of his pages on his sidebar. This is a great thing to have if you have numerous pages running at once. Also, you can add a banner to the very top of your page. You can do this by clicking edit next to sidebar content. Then you can add an image code into your M1 content. Before clicking ok, make sure the drop-down menu says "Show M1 Content".

That is pretty much all there is to know about the sidebar.

Dylanis out.