Site Redesign: Give Us Your Suggestions
We’re looking at redesigning the site and we’d like to get our readers’ input. Tell us what you like (or hate). What should we change, get rid of, or add?
Leave a comment, or send me an email (james@procheerleaderblog.com)
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whenever i try to look up an old article a bunch of script shows up between all the writing, and there are no pics…
I really like Picture or the Day! I miss the video interviews. I also like to scroll down the page and see pictures.
I think the links at the top of the page can be a bit larger, and the popular topic tags can be just as small enough a type as the new comments currently are.
Also, don’t forget to update for the newly remodeled Arena Football 1 League beginning play in April 2010.
The site is muuuuuch sloooowwwweeer since it moved.
I have the same problem with the old articles. I get tags for the images instead of the pictures. I know the pictures are there since the link can be pasted into the browser to see what the image was.
My only issue is the same as has been mentioned by others. With the blog it was easy to access archived articles and photos. With Ultimate Cheerleaders I have been unable to access the photos. I miss being able to access the old articles and photos as something will always come up that makes me want to go back and check the photos from past articles.
I have been a big fan of the site for many years and want to commend you for asking for feedback. As others noted, the new site is much slower than the last and the archives don’t include photos. I’d also love to see a “where are they now” section. (I realize that would require a lot of time and cooperation but I’m just throwing it out there.)
Thanks for all you do! You’re doing a wonderful job!
Can’t you go back to the old site format, that was great! you get fed up of waiting here, and give up looking for older posts, but this site or the old one, thanks for doing it in the first place!
i think the site is way too slow and i like the old adds but feel that you focus on certain teams too much.. not but do love the idea of the site like the old one way better!!!! can you go back to that one.. it was very user friendly! thanks.
I liked the old format much better! Could you please revert to it?
I think some explanation is in order and I hope James doesn’t mind me chiming in here because I want our readers to understand the challenges we, mainly James, faced. When we switched sites, it was in part due to webmaster issues. Needless to say it was difficult to get things done through that person, so we went in a different direction. This new direction has posed some different challenges, which we are trying to address and with your input, we will. So, I would encourage all of our readers to post their specific likes and dislikes. More specificity, the better. For example, I did not like the black background on the old site because it was hard to read and the column width was too small (I like big photos).
Regarding covering certain teams too frequently, most of us are fans, just like you. We live in certain cities and tend to cover those squads near our home base since most of us don’t receive any financial support to go to game, nor do we receive media credentials except in very rare circumstances. So, in order to provide you with original content, we do so usually out of our own pocket. That’s why you get a lot of coverage from the Philly, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Carolina, Southern California and the Bay Area squads because that’s where we have correspondents. I would encourage our readers who live in areas that we don’t cover regularly, to submit content to our site. I have encouraged people to submit content in the past and will continue to do so in the future. James has been very accommodating in this respect and this really is a user supported site.
Although I liked many aspects of the old site, I am not certain that we can revert to the old site. The only thing we can do is try to build the new site to have most of the features that you like from the old site into this new version. So, if you have specific likes and dislikes, I would encourage you to be specific and let us know.
Thanks for your suggestions and please provide us with more, if you think of them. I think we all share the frustration with the current site in that it’s slow and somewhat challenging to quickly get to the content you want to read. But, rest assured we will considered all your ideas and try to incorporate them into the new site design. It has come a long way from James old blog and we hope to provide you with a better viewing experience.
Thanks for your input. I know that when we changed over to the new site, a lot of the archived data was not ported over to this new site. I am not familiar with the process, but if it is anything like posting a new article to UltimateCheerleaders.com, it would be a challenge to recreate the archives with photos. I would imagine that is a very time consuming process (this is really a webmaster question and I am only a contributor) and I know James has worked very hard to try to get the old stuff ported over this new site and that mainly what you see, the text portions, is what we could accomplish in switching from the old site. Needless to say getting the old archives (the photos, in particular) is a challenge and we hear you. We will do our best.
It’s frustrating over the inconsistent speeds of the page loading; other than that, it’s fine.
I agree with the posters above that the site is way too slow. I used to LOVE the old site. It was fast and easy to navigate. The new site is so slow and hard to find things you want to read that I hardly ever visit it anymore. Prior to the new site I used to visit the old one a few times a week, the new site, I visit once a month, if that.