Scoreboards.net
Direct-to-buyer storefront for the same scoreboard manufacturer as Electro-Mech.
Overview
Scoreboards.net sells LED scoreboards for baseball, football, basketball, soccer and hockey directly to buyers, for the same scoreboard manufacturer as Electro-Mech. The site carries model pages, free quote and contact requests, an articles section and team schedule widgets, and its web leads were part of the same flow into Sage 100 CRM that serves electro-mech.com.
Over the years the site had become a mix of static HTML product pages, PHP scripts and a WordPress articles section. In April 2026 it was converted into a static site on Cloudflare Pages: a clean mirror of every page and asset, board images that PHP used to render on request saved as static files, the color picker rewritten in JavaScript on a canvas, and legacy URLs redirected.
What was built
- A static rebuild of the full site on Cloudflare Pages, produced from a clean crawl of the live PHP and WordPress site and served with a custom 404 page.
- Static image files for the scoreboard renderings a PHP script used to generate on each request, with the product pages rewritten to use them.
- A canvas-based color picker in plain JavaScript on product pages that recolors board images by region using per-pixel color matching.
- Redirects for legacy order, contact, product and dead WordPress login URLs, and rewrites that keep old document paths such as spec sheet PDFs resolving.
- Cleanup of retired Urchin and Universal Analytics tags, with GA4 and HubSpot kept, and absolute links rewritten to relative paths across the pages.
- A sitemap generated from the files actually deployed, and the articles section and team schedule widget pages carried over into the static build.
- A static XML lead feed in the format the Electro-Mech Sage 100 posting service expects, which stopped its fetch errors after the PHP form handler was retired.
Stack
Frontend
- Static HTML + CSS
- Product, category, article and legacy pages served as plain files after the rebuild.
- jQuery + jQuery UI
- The site's existing slideshow and page scripts, kept working unchanged in the static build.
- Canvas color picker
- Plain JavaScript recoloring of board images on product pages, replacing server-side rendering.
Infrastructure & DevOps
- Cloudflare Pages
- Hosts the static build on the production domain, with redirects and a custom 404 page.
- Wrangler
- Direct-upload deploys of the static build to the Cloudflare Pages project.
- Wget2
- Produced the clean mirror of the live site that the static build was made from.
Integrations & Payments
- HubSpot
- Tracking script kept on every page of the static site.
- GA4
- Analytics kept after removing the retired Urchin and Universal Analytics tags.
- Sage 100 lead feed
- XML feed polled by the Java service that posts Electro-Mech and Scoreboards.net leads to Sage 100 CRM.
CMS & Commerce
- WordPress 5.7
- Powered the articles section with a custom scoreboardsnet theme, exported to static pages in the rebuild.
Engineering highlights
Retired the site's PHP runtime without breaking inbound links: legacy order, contact and product URLs redirect with 301s, and old document paths are rewritten to their new static locations.