New AFL Site

[ScottH]

http://afl.com.au/

Layout seems OK, but it is very busy.

The font in their articles appears to be a bit small.

PS: anyone with RSS feeds from AFL.com, the URLs have changed.

[Cher]

No worse or better than the previous.
I liked it better when all the coming up games and required information were right there for all to see without searching for them.

[SimonH]

The AFL has a few choice words to say to you. And those words are, "Au test/ test test test" (http://afl.com.au/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId=38545). And as I write, they've been up there 2 hours 36 minutes.

There's 'beta' (IT-speak for 'we couldn't be bothered testing it in-house'), and then there's just incompetent. The new AFL site falls on the wrong side of that line right now.

[reigning premier]

Originally posted by Cher
No worse or better than the previous.
I liked it better when all the coming up games and required information were right there for all to see without searching for them.

That doesn't increase data downloads now does it???

[elroy67]

Can anyone see the results from the NAB CUP RESULTS page? My flash player appears to be up to date.

The page I'm refering to is Here. (http://afl.com.au/Season2007/FixturesResults/2007NABCup/tabid/8542/Default.aspx)

[Mike_B]

I can without a problem...

[Cher]

Originally posted by elroy67
Can anyone see the results from the NAB CUP RESULTS page? My flash player appears to be up to date.

The page I'm refering to is Here. (http://afl.com.au/Season2007/FixturesResults/2007NABCup/tabid/8542/Default.aspx)

It doesn't work for me and I've tried two different browsers.

[ScottH]

Works fine for me too. (IE7).

What browser are you using?

[Frog]

Originally posted by ScottH
Works fine for me too. (IE7).

What browser are you using?
Doesn't work here (IE6)

[Sanecow]

IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 works fine.

[Carolyn]

It doesn't work for me either. (IE6)

[NMWBloods]

It's insanely slow, although it works eventually (I'm using Firefox).

[Mike_B]

I went to try and provide feedback on the site (coz its officially still beta). You click the link, it has nowhere to fill anything in, but there's a submit link, so you click that thinking it might open up an input form, but no, it just goes to a page saying thank you. :rolleyes:

[j s]

It's typical Telstra c**p - breaking almost every rule of good web design. Much of the non-standard stuff will get blocked by corporate firewalls/filters.

The only stuff they make easy to find is the stuff you have to pay for.

Process http://www.afl.com.au thru this website...

http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en.index.jsp

....and then check out the accessibility tab to see just how many rules it breaks.

Feed it thru this one....

http://validator.w3.org/

...to see that they can't even code properly - the home page has 153 syntax errors (that number will probably vary as the content varies)

[NMWBloods]

Telstra make some of the worst websites I have seen.

[tantrum]

Originally posted by ScottH
http://afl.com.au/

PS: anyone with RSS feeds from AFL.com, the URLs have changed.

Thanks for pointing that out. Not a good thing to do, changing the URLs of RSS feeds.

Unfortunately, the current URL doesn't look so permanent either...

[Thunder Shaker]

Flash is required? Blech.

[reigning premier]

Originally posted by j s
It's typical Telstra c**p - breaking almost every rule of good web design. Much of the non-standard stuff will get blocked by corporate firewalls/filters.

The only stuff they make easy to find is the stuff you have to pay for.

Process http://www.afl.com.au thru this website...

http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en.index.jsp

....and then check out the accessibility tab to see just how many rules it breaks.

Feed it thru this one....

http://validator.w3.org/

...to see that they can't even code properly - the home page has 153 syntax errors (that number will probably vary as the content varies)

LOL............

Try the same checks on redandwhiteonline.com.....

:D

[ScottH]

Originally posted by reigning premier
LOL............

Try the same checks on redandwhiteonline.com.....

:D I have.

[j s]

Originally posted by reigning premier
LOL............

Try the same checks on redandwhiteonline.com.....

:D
Blame Des! ;)

More seriously, most of the issues would be with the message board and no-one expects an amateur website to get everything right. An amateur website doesn't have the same obligations to, fir example, provide access for those with a disability.

RWO might not be perfect in the detail, but it does obey the major good design rules.

But answer me this - which website is easier to navigate and find what you want?

[elroy67]

Is anyone else having trouble with the AFL website today?

I cannot get it to load with either safari or firefox, although it was loading yesterday.

[ScottH]

Looks fine in IE7, but crap in firefox until I installed the flash plugin.

[elroy67]

Flash is up to date. As mentioned it was loading previously so something else has changed, but it would appear that I'm on my own here.

[Zlatorog]

I'm also using Firefox and the site loads fine on my PC.

[elroy67]

I still cannot load the AFL home page, but for some reason I can now load the Swans site and it works fine. :confused: