ESPN.com redesign

[DeskMonkey1]

Looking over it real quick, I'm not a fan. Maybe part of it is because I'm used to the old one but the hedlines are just randomly floating. Maybe if the photos (ads, tweets and a few refers) to the right were smaller...

 

[EddieM]

I actually think this version of ESPN.com is more easily navigated. And personally, I enjoy the right panel that includes bigger blurbs for video and stories (which draws me in more than their previous teases did) and the social media stuff.

It's interesting to me that it seems in some ways to violate old school thinking (white space) and new school thinking (lots of words, not just images). But I need a couple of days before I decide if it's the best way to organize their crapload of content.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

I figured that was the reason for the changes, but here I am, on a tablet, and I can't get half the links on the NBA page to load.

That's what you get for reading about the NBA. My comment was just about looks. Haven't used it enough to judge its practicality.

 

[SFIND]

I like Amazon.com's redesign better.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

The text in the top scorebar on my browser is too big and forces me to scroll within the box it's in.

 

[amraeder]

Just played around with the "Favorites" on the left side of the screen. Having scores appear there and on the top seems redundant. Otherwise seems cool. Really minor but wished that "tamu" got me Texas A&M as a favorite. I don't have time to type all that **** out!

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

I like it.

 

[MileHigh]

Underwhelming.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Olberman also has a video on how it's both the 20th anniversary of the web page launch, and the 21st anniversary of an ESPN page on Prodigy.

The two things I recall about the early web pages were a couple of clever commercials. One was about an elf at the North Pole that was tired of making toys, so he walked out, and got run over by a sleigh. The other was on Cam Neely talking about how the site was launched after he retired, he was stuck gardening and asked if the anyone wanted to kick his dog.

 

[SnarkShark]

I. Hate. Endless. Scrolling.

 

[expendable]

Olberman also has a video on how it's both the 20th anniversary of the web page launch, and the 21st anniversary of an ESPN page on Prodigy.

The two things I recall about the early web pages were a couple of clever commercials. One was about an elf at the North Pole that was tired of making toys, so he walked out, and got run over by a sleigh. The other was on Cam Neely talking about how the site was launched after he retired, he was stuck gardening and asked if the anyone wanted to kick his dog.

The Cam Neely commercial was for ESPN News. Always liked that commercial for some reason.

 

[Vombatus]

Well, ESPN fantasy sports have hit rock bottom. No Best Ball Majors golf game this year.

Plus, they are killing off their Uber scoring (which was like a lifetime ranking). That was, as ridiculous as it sounds, a primary reason why people paid for the prize eligible fantasy leagues in the four major sports.

Sounds like the daily fantasy games like Draft Kings is taking over the world.

Anyway, this is good for me. Gives me another reason to not pay attention to ESPN. And to get a life.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

This took two years? The redesign is awful. It's an eyesore and not user friendly. Terrible.

 

[NathanFournier87]

What bothers me as someone who works on the agate page I always have the site up so I can follow scores of the four major sports as the old site updated real time. The new site doesn't do that, unless I haven't found the auto refresh button.

 

[playthrough]

People generally hate all redesigns.

And sometimes they have very good reason. At my last job there was a redesign that went to the photo-heavy format and fan feedback wasn't good. The old site was similar to the old ESPN.com in that there was a box of 10 headlines at the top-right side. Everything you wanted was always right there, until -- poof -- it wasn't.

I see that the new ESPN.com still has the headlines, albeit seven. On a desktop that's not enough for me. Yes, I know how to get what I want but I'm like most in that I don't want to click five more times.

 

[amraeder]

My biggest complain so far has been that in their infinite scrolling, the story below isn't related to the story I'm actually reading. If I'm reading an NFL story, give me another NFL story - not whatever your top story is. If I cared about your top story, I'd have clicked on it already.

 

[JackReacher]

Throwing some shade at ESPN’s bright new Web site - The Washington Post

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

(Actually, Sports Illustrated’s two most marketable assets are the swimsuit issue and Peter King. Considering the swimsuit issue comes out once a year and Peter King is right about once a year, why would anyone go to SI.com in the first place?)

 

[JackReacher]

I usually visit SI.com on Mondays to see Deitsch's media column, which always links to a dozen or so stories of the week. I'll usually skim MMQB in three minutes or less. That's about all it deserves anymore.

But yeah, SI.com's design is horrid. Easily the worst of all the major sports sites.

 

[Smokey33]

I'm kind of indifferent. But I'm more annoyed by how some sports' scoreboards are in the new format, and others are in the old format. NBA and MLB are in the new one, NHL in the old (NCAA basketball was in the old format, too, I think).