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New Official Carlton site (now LIVE!)
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Author:  budzy [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:19 pm ]
Post subject:  New Official Carlton site (now LIVE!)
http://prod.www.carltonfc.cfour.com.au/
Author:  Jarusa [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:26 pm ]
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Nice get budzy.

Obviously still a lot of content yet to go on it.
Author:  Jarusa [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:29 pm ]
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... and updated. :lol:

http://prod.www.carltonfc.cfour.com.au/ ... fault.aspx
Author:  bluechucky [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:47 pm ]
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Don't like it.... it looks too much like the AFL site.... almost hard to tell them apart.
Author:  Lurker Blue [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:51 pm ]
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Not blue enough.

WTF is with all that white?

Can't the background be blue?

Also, there's more AFL logos on the page than CFC logos.

TC has more of a Carlton feel than that.
Author:  camel [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:53 pm ]
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I'm not so sure about having the central content on the extreme left with two supporting columns on the right. Kind of a bit off putting, but I can see why they've made the change.
Author:  camel [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:53 pm ]
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Lurker Blue wrote:
Also, there's more AFL logos on the page than CFC logos.

TC has more of a Carlton feel than that.


That's because we're independent and don't have anyone telling us what to do. :lol:
Author:  BlueWorld [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:00 pm ]
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Still haven't updated the new players' numbers!
Author:  Drewgirl [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:05 pm ]
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AAARRRGGGG get rid of Smorgon as a director.

Just gave me nightmares :oops: :twisted:
Author:  mjonc [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:28 pm ]
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Not a fan either. :(
Author:  Mordan [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:55 pm ]
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Still made my browser choke for 3 or 4 seconds during loading.

I'm not sure what causes it, but it was one of my pet hates of the old site and they haven't fixed it.
Author:  jimmae [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:56 pm ]
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Boring.

Stylish, yet simplistic design, incorrectly colour-schemed for a predominantly blue team, put together in an overpacked layout.

I'd swap the far right columns around, and take out the player profile & stats boxes from there and place them in the same column as the ladder & fixture stats, possibly culling the player profile section to part of a tabbed stat leaders box.

I'd then cull the picture links down the bottom as well and re-design the menu layout up the top to incorporate them. I'd continue the culling with the events and injuries boxes and make them news tabs (of which there is already an injuries tab).

While the intial design phase could be tedious, it wouldn't be that fundamentally different from the AFL website.

Another thing for the future could be to implement a Bigpond/Content sign in, which leads to a different version of the homepage where you can playback video and audio from the link box on the top right.

Finally, the fact that when you click one of the main menu options on the bar up the top doesn't result in a simple sub-menu change, rather than taking you to a different page is just another example of poor design and construction.

There's plenty of people in the state, let alone the country who can put up a better effort than this. I was kind of alluding to this in a similar thread commenting on the AFL's beta site.

Here's hoping that they're still fleshing out the layout and content and aren't just going to give the same old crap (I'm speaking of Sportal's content there - not the contributors) a new coat of paint.
Author:  Ruckus [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:58 pm ]
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Visually it's mediocre, and not overly friendly to navigate, but admittedly it still appears to be going through a spit and polish. No BigPond-centric site has ever been any good, though.

Content will be the key, and will ultimately be what the site is judged upon. Currently there is very little incentive to regularly visit the site, so I look forward to seeing what the finished product has in store.
Author:  rhys87 [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:08 pm ]
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agree with pretty much everything jimmae wrote.

nowhere near enough blue.
Author:  jimmae [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:14 pm ]
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I'd also suggest changing the search engine from a Sensis-based search (ie. scours the site for pages with matching words), in favour of tagging articles with keywords and using that in combination with a few more search options.

Again, something seen in a whole host of major websites, and easily implemented by someone who knows what they're doing.

The standard of web design for sports sites in this country is being stiffled by Sportal's control of the market.
Author:  camel [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:15 pm ]
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Ruckus wrote:
Visually it's mediocre, and not overly friendly to navigate, but admittedly it still appears to be going through a spit and polish.


Given some of the errors in content, it's pretty clear that this is still very much a work in progress.

Ruckus wrote:
No BigPond-centric site has ever been any good, though.


Zing!
Author:  beowulf [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:12 pm ]
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Agree with all of you: this has a LOT of improvement required in it yet. The old Optus version was much better.
Author:  magic [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:20 pm ]
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AWWWWW STEVENS.....

i wish they would let me design it....actually no...they made it so its easy to maintain....if i did it..it would take 10 times longer to update....
Author:  Warby [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:47 pm ]
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Agree with almost everything Jimmae said.... 8)
Author:  Car17on [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:15 pm ]
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Lurker Blue wrote:
Not blue enough .. WTF is with all that white?
Can't the background be blue? Also, there's more AFL logos on the page than CFC logos .. TC has more of a Carlton feel than that.


Maybe it's the clash site!
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