AFL Website does it again.....

[Mappa]

I have just made the inexcusable mistake of jumping onto the AFL website to find out some information about the Grand Final Parade, and surprise, surprise it took me a while to find anything. It then struck me that they haven;t exactly gone out of their way the flash the website up for the Grand Final. Apart from a small change in the banner, and a pretty ordinary link down the side, not much has changed.

I then see a tiny link in the far right hand corner titled "Finals". It doesn't exactly catch the eye straight way and I figured there can't be much in that. Then i clicked on it........

A whole page dedicated to Grand Final Week !

Can you imagine the NFL hiding all the information about the Superbowl behind some sh***y little link ? Or Major League Baseball doing that for the World Series ? Who the heck is running the show down there. Even the main Grand Final banner links back to the front page.

Then just for laugh value, under the Video link they show, in this order, Australian Idol performers, then the 1989 Grand Final. I bet the dimwits at the AFL are the only people who think that Australian Idol says so much more about footy than the highlights of one of the greatest games ever played.

Sure there is a little bit of Grand Final stuff smattered on the front page, but you would think they would jazz it up for the biggest day of the year.

 

[krusden]

The AFL website is a try-hard crappy site that permanently shits me up the wall. This f**k up is no surprise - even the club websites are better!

 

[PalaceGun]

Worst website of all time, 365 days a year.

 

[dart]

Worst website of all time, 365 days a year.

wholeheartedly agree.


www.nfl.com is a good one to compare it with & puts it to shame completely.

 

[jedi master]

Worst website of all time, 365 days a year.

Hmmm, I didn't find a whole lot that stimulated me at raithroversfc.com to be honest

 

[Neville Bartos]

So did you find out any information? All I can find is that it starts at 12 at the Arts centre and finishes at 1 at the Old Treasury Building which doesn't make any sense because it's in a terrible spot.

 

[arkie]

It's BigPond, what do you expect?

 

[PalaceGun]

Hmmm, I didn't find a whole lot that stimulated me at raithroversfc.com to be honest

Probably because you have no interest in Raith Rovers.

At least it works, is easy to navigate and doesn't take ages to load up.

 

[The 747]

Hmm how long before the Telstra PR flack arrives at this thread?

For the record, the only site on the web which always freezes my PC when loading. And incredibly counter intuitive in terms of layout, accessiblity of information and quick access to what the visitor actually wants.

 

[rfctigerarmy]

Problem with the AFL site is that they try and show us more multimedia links than other links of interest.

Either
1. You are with Telstra and watch the multimedia.
2. You are and you don't care about the multimedia.
3. You aren't with Telstra so most of the links dont work.
4. You dont give a **** about Telstra or their multimedia.

Sure, try and sell the product but not so much that we dislike it.

 

[BT13]

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl
so much easier to use

 

[s3tTz]

It's BigPond, what do you expect?

2001 vintage website was the best - just before Telstra won the rights.

And, all the club websites were independently run, too.

Those were the days . . .

 

[FootyJunkie]

Superfooty (Herald Sun) or RealFooty (The Age) over the official site.

Sad really.

 

[FootyJunkie]

2001 vintage website was the best - just before Telstra won the rights.

And, all the club websites were independently run, too.

Those were the days . . .

Agree, before Telstra put their hand in it, the site was actually quite decent. Site was on a dark blue background I remember things were quite accessable.

Early 2002, I check the site out, shit fonts, stuff missing, broken links... Crap

 

[Learning to Kick Straight]

Agree, before Telstra put their hand in it, the site was actually quite decent. Site was on a dark blue background I remember things were quite accessable.

Early 2002, I check the site out, shit fonts, stuff missing, broken links... Crap

As the archive didn't cache images or the style sheets its quite incomplete but this gives us some idea what it looked like back in 2001.
http://web.archive.org/web/20001205192500/afl.com.au/home/default.htm

It would have loaded up fast unlike the site they currently have.

 

[Learning to Kick Straight]

Superfooty (Herald Sun) or RealFooty (The Age) over the official site.

Sad really.

Interesting back in 2001 it looks like the AFL website was actually operated in part by News Corporation (who operates the Superfooty website).

I got this from the then copyright notice

"Copyright (c) 2000 Seven Network Limited. News Limited. Australian Football League."

 

[Johnson#26]

Agree, before Telstra put their hand in it, the site was actually quite decent. Site was on a dark blue background I remember things were quite accessable.

Early 2002, I check the site out, shit fonts, stuff missing, broken links... Crap

Remember that like it was yesterday.

Got the internet on the day the Pies played the Blues in round 21, 2001 and lived on afl.com.au for the rest of the year/next summer, until I come back from holidays, and they thought it was clever to destroy everything and all the content and come back with some absolute rubbish. If anything, it's become more sanitised, which so many pages devoted to the GC team and all that claptrap. I honestly never visit it now, which I could never have imagined back in 2001, when it was awesome, it had everything, profiles on players dating back to 1998!

 

[dyl_tigerman]

only good thing is game day live and that is still behind

 

[Play by Numbers]

It is an embarrassment but what do you expect from Telstra....also Bigpond videos is has the worst optimized video streaming ever!!!!!!!

 

[Makka]

Because Telstra Bigpond hold the monopoly on the site it's crap! Until they actually get someone decent to do it it will always remain crap! I'm surprised anyone still goes there!

 

[Crumpler83]

I'm amazed that the AFL has continued in it's current state for so long.

It's one of the most user un-friendly websites I've ever had the displeasure of coming across.

You'd think with today's administration so keen to spend ridiculous amounts of money selling our game to countries like South Africa and India that they would get their website in order first as that is the "face" of the organisation to international folk wanting to learn more about the game.

Agree with the person who said nfl.com is a perfect example of a great and easy to use website. It is everything that the afl website is not.