O/T - New BBC Sport website

Have you seen it? It's horrendous!!!

 

I'm trying to figure out whether it's just a question of getting used to it or whether it is genuinely shyte. At the moment I'm leaning toward the latter.

 

It makes my eyes hurt and it's not as easy to use. Change is not good!!

 

It really is one of the worst designed webistes I have ever seen!

 

Oh I don't know - the colours are interesting, though more Wolves than Tigers!!

 

Everyone always complains when people update websites. Everybody always says that the 'old version' was better, but in a months time nobody will care. It was the same with Facebook.

 

1 million % AGREED. What has happened to the score predictor ? only the PL one is still around. Its Awful.

Anyone else found the Football league Leagues score predictor by chance ?

 

Its a downgrade from the old one. Nothing has been improved or added Just the leagues score predictor has been removed apart from the PL one.

 

It is a bit stupid though that people waste time changing a website with nothing new to add, just change for the sake of change. People moan every time they change facebook because it's equally pointless. Nothing helpful or new just things moved to confusing places.

 

Someone at the BBC must have had to justify there position. Cut backs and all.

 

I thought that was just me? The colors are all wrong its repulsive!

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_div_1/predictor/default.stm

 

Yes looks like their development team are putting their HTML5 and CSS3 knowledge to good use.

 

It's awful.

 

Except with facebook I know a few people who've already stopped using it and/or have started using the Google thing instead. I haven't been on since before Xmas because I got sick of them constantly changing things and it getting worse every time. I think when facebook started telling people which bits of their newsfeed they'd be most interested in they "jumped the shark". It was invariably wrong, and the only way to get rid of its recommendations was to create yourself a new list and make sure you added everybody you were friends with to that list, and then use that list instead of your news feed.

Admittedly I was also getting tired of the amount of bollocks I was having to wade through to find anything that I actually gave a **** about (Why do people think anybody actually cares that they've just had a biscuit and other things like that?). There'll be more go once the Timeline layout kicks in because that is ****ing horrendous from what I saw of it with people adopting it and then finding they couldn't change back.

The main problem with that BBC site is the lack of contrast, barring the yellow banner, and two flashes ("Latest News", "Table as it stands") they're all dirty earthy colours, even the blue has the sharpness removed like it's a a muddy river. It's like looking out of a train window on the way to Blackpool. The old site was like being in Yorkshire, it'd be sunny and all the colours would be bright, the new one is like arriving near Burnley. You can sort of make out colour, but it's so grim and overcast it all just blurs into one.

Try and give an example, on the Football homepage when you get to the bit where it has

Premierleague
Rooney scores for Man U

Championship
Nobody scores for Hull

League 1
Huddersfield reject bid for Rhodes

All that text just merges, you actually have to look and read it to be able to select the bit you want, on the old site the red/blue contrast allowed you to immediately find the competition you wanted without paying it much attention. It's also been rearranged in rows rather than columns (Left hand column used to be PL, NPC, L1, L2 etc from top to bottom, now PL and NPC are on row 1, L1 and L2 on row 2 etc)


That said, it's much better than the paella that is the BBC 2012 site

http://www.bbc.co.uk/2012/

 

Many Many thanks for that. But why is it not visable on the championship menu page like it used to be ?

 

Given the designs for other things, like the main logo being Lisa Simpson giving a blow job, I think you're wrong about that. I think it IS a child that DOES play with Spirograph rather than someone who used to when they were a kid.

 

The ****ers! I've just realised, they've done something with the coding so a lot of the headlines don't show as links anymore.

When you go on the Football page there's the Premierleague Live story, with the Leeds sack Grayson story and the Wilshere injury story underneath. On the old site you'd be able to right click those links and open them in a new window or in a new tab, you can't do it any more, you can only do it with the ordinary text headlines to the right hand side of that.

That means it's less well presented and less functional than the old site was.