Just wondered if anyone else has problems viewing the OS when using firefox (as I do)?
Everything is all over the place, overlapping and all down the left hand side, making the page about a mile long.
My brother (who happens to be a web designer) says this is an easily solved problem but been like it for about 4 weeks now. Tried it on chrome and IE and seems to work fine.
Just think that, for the first place many people would go to look at anything Charlton, they might have sorted this pretty sharpish........................
For those not knowing what I'm talking about, here's a couple of screenshots.
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I think I'm right in saying we are part of a group of sites, as in, lots of clubs using this company to do their web stuff for them? I'm assuming the club feel it's only worth a certain level of investment which is fair enough.
The worst issue is over the site's relationship with CAFC player, which was designed by blind men in 1973 from what I can tell. The user journeys are had to fathom, but the design is so awkward that once you get to CAFC Player, you wish you never had.
http://www.htafc.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/
http://www.cafc.co.uk/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/
Horrible layout.
Avoid.
There's A LOT wrong with it from a development side as well.
I don't thinks its had a thorough cross browser test.
But, the club gets paid to use this template.
For a decent web agency (not a guy in his bedroom) to develop a site fit for purpose and unique, the minimum you'd be looking at is at least £40,000
And that would be a really, really cheap deal.
Having said that if there are 40
Clubs in the football league using it it works out at £1k for each club. Over a ten month season that's only £100 a month and at £5 a month for the crappy commentary each club would only need 20 subscribers to pay for it.
I still think that at £40k to design a site you'd expect that chap doing it to come to the meeting wearing a handkerchief over his nose and mouth and insist on being called Mr Turpin!
The amateurish website does rather contrast with our very impressive big screen, and the very slick graphics and presentation on it (presumably by Breamteam?)
Don't even think of complaining as I know the background on the website......
You see the site forms part of a former BBC local radio franchise that was sub-let to the Football League on a bandwidth buy-back deal but this was subsequently bought out of administration by an Istanbul based kebab shop chain (Koc Sausage Holding) who asked a certain Peter Funch to oversee the club content.
Student web designer Lewis Nerd agreed to design the site for only £876,000 as he was once offered a job by Arsenal selling lottery tickets and (coincidentally) was the nephew of Charlton's head of communications, Mike Mute, so ideally qualified. Not only had Nerd been to the Emirates Stadium twice but was also studying knitting pattern book culture as part of his diploma in futility at the University of South-East Aberdeen- so naturally there was only one candidate for the job.
This meant popular and loyal club stalwart Funchy had to travel to Aberdeen at his own expense every week-end to support Nerd finish the site and was often forced to sit naked in the Scottish snow for hours on end at his own expense as part of this painful sacrifice.
Nerd would keep adding pages about knitting, Scottish culture (not many pages on that obviously) and his uncle Mike while Funchy would valiantly wrestle naked with him for hours in the snow to get him back on track.
Club head of communications Mike Mute said in statement "Anyone who insinuates that the club website is crap or has any other criticisms of the regime (sorry club) is clearly making a direct and violent attack on a naked club stalwart with hypothermia doing his best against all the odds to keep this club afloat. These type of terrorist threats will not be tolerated at a family club like Charlton and offenders will be shot at dawn (sorry banned for life). Those traitors (sorry paying supporters) who insist on making these unjustified complaints must make an online appointment via the cub website (which has crashed) to see Stan, the assistant lavatory attendant in the North-West quadrant, who sadly passed away in March 2007".
(Deja-vu and no offence intended to PF who does a great job or Nerd who is clearly made up- who wouldn't be?)
:-)
A Pitchero one would be better and that's damning.