New AFL Site

[tantrum]

Re: New AFL Site ...... again

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.....

[ScottH]

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

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

I have.

[j s]

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

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

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.