If you have seen the truly atrocious re-design of the BBC website, then you should be thankful we're now on here. Can you imagine what 606 would look like had we stayed?
Here is an example of the new design for those that have not yet seen it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/blackpool
It looks like someone has swallowed all the content and then vomited it out onto a web page and just told the users to find what they need from the mess.
I've never seen such a bad example of design, and I'm on a one man mission to see if anyone believes it's an improvement over the old design? I'm yet to speak to anyone who likes it...a bit like the Olympic logo.
Aside from the mess of the layout, which makes finding anything like doing a Rubix cube on Acid, who creates pages with the content separated using bright yellow and white whilst thinking this will be easy on eye and clear for the readers, especially those with visual disabilities.
I'm actually disappointed, because I liked using the old BBC site for my sport news, but now I'm going to have to look elsewhere despite not wanting to. It's that bad.
Any other thoughts on the new look BBC website?
Imagine What 606 Would Look Like Now...
posted on 3/2/12
In my experience some clients can be very difficult to deal with and do not accept the guidance offered by those that design/develop sites.
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That's the problem most developers/designers have. Personally, I've come to the conclusion that clients are idiots.
I had one a few years ago, who asked for a design, once I had sorted one, he OK'd it and I began the build. After about a week he rang me saying he was bored of the old design and he wanted it changing.
So now, I get everything they want on paper, and ask them to sign it. So, if they decide to change their mind, I charge them extra at my hourly rate (which is £45)
posted on 3/2/12
comment by Maestro - Ronaldo = .33 Andy Carrolls (U8867)
posted 1 hour, 46 minutes ago
In my experience some clients can be very difficult to deal with and do not accept the guidance offered by those that design/develop sites.
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That's the problem most developers/designers have. Personally, I've come to the conclusion that clients are idiots.
I had one a few years ago, who asked for a design, once I had sorted one, he OK'd it and I began the build. After about a week he rang me saying he was bored of the old design and he wanted it changing.
So now, I get everything they want on paper, and ask them to sign it. So, if they decide to change their mind, I charge them extra at my hourly rate (which is £45)
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Pretty much how we work at our place. Get everything speced out and nailed down in a contract. So many clients that start wanting to add new functionality in after you start work and expect the price to remain the same. We have started spending a lot more time at the planning stage to ensure that we have set guidelines so that we can charge for additional work. People just dont understand how little changes can impact on the whole of the rest of the site.
posted on 4/2/12
The things I hate most is you can no longer see the fixtures by day, so to see todays fixtures you need to scroll through every division and pick out todays date from the list of the next months games for each div.
It's also awful you cant see the scorers of the games after they finish without going into every single match report in all divisions!!!
You also cant see the scorers for a particular club for their past results without reading every match report. You used to see all scorers, red cards etc under every result, which is great for fantasy football and just generally.
posted on 4/2/12
Arghh anyone know a good site where you can now see who's scored in all the games being played? This rubbish new BBC site just shows the score unless you go into every single match report.
posted on 4/2/12
Sporting Life site does it
posted on 4/2/12
Xscores is a great site for scores and scorers. Just click the info button next to each game for list of scorers.
posted on 4/2/12
comment by The Wonderfully Sweet Little Pea (U6951)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
The things I hate most is you can no longer see the fixtures by day, so to see todays fixtures you need to scroll through every division and pick out todays date from the list of the next months games for each div.
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Yeah, I hadn't notice that. Seems a bit silly and another change I'm not sure needed to be made.
posted on 4/2/12
*noticed
posted on 6/2/12
They're currently showing Day of the Triffids on the BBC Sport website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/16845357
Someone forgot to take the BBC2 feed down after MOTD2 I guess.
posted on 11/2/12
If anyone's interested the BBC have closed the blog that had 1500 negative comments and written a new one which is now also building up. Bit sneaky if you ask me.
Any way here is the link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/sporteditors/2012/02/more_on_our_new_website.html