website redesigns that deter visitors?

[P38 in workshop]

I am quite willing to accept the premise that I might be a touch reactionary in some matters,I am also willing to believe that website designers sometimes indulge in change for the sake of change-and continued employment-rather than leaving well alone.In the last few weeks a couple of websites I used to refer to regularly have undergone "design updates" that to my mind are not improvements.Consequently I no longer visit one of them and the other has changed only very recently and will no longer stand much chance of featuring in my list of must visit daily browsing.Should I be posting this in the Formula One section of this forum?Since most of my interest in motorsport relates to this activity it seems reasonable.Does anybody else find the changes to well known motorsport websites to be driving you to consider surrendering your pitpass?

[Oldtony]

Originally Posted by P38 in workshop

.Does anybody else find the changes to well known motorsport websites to be driving you to consider surrendering your pitpass?

I'm out the door with you. Haven't been back to the now ESPN site since they re-packaged it, and now it looks like I am out of another one.

[peckstar]

like do i really need the sound of an F1 engine when i go to the F1 site, just what my wife wants to hear when she is trying to nap

[fourWheelDrift]

Originally Posted by peckstar

like do i really need the sound of an F1 engine when i go to the F1 site, just what my wife wants to hear when she is trying to nap

Any site that plays sound or video without the visitor explicitly playing it is dead in the water as far as I am concerned, fine if they ask first and the site still works if I say 'No' otherwise forget it.

Most annoying is one (non motorsport) site in particular that is otherwise very good but accepts noisy and intrusive video ads, usually it's ok but occasionally you are greeted with intrusive audio as soon as you open the home page, I still go there because it's content is important to me but I hate this practice with a passion.

btw: I develop web applications for a living, but business process stuff not public sites, maybe that has some influence on my attitude.

[Born Racer]

Originally Posted by peckstar

like do i really need the sound of an F1 engine when i go to the F1 site, just what my wife wants to hear when she is trying to nap

Haha, I just woke my girlfriend up with that. Forgot about it and hadn't selected the option to not play it before.

[Chatters]

Originally Posted by Born Racer

Forgot about it and hadn't selected the option to not play it before.

Every time I've told it not to play again it always does, after a while I gave up...

... and threw my computer out a window.

[wnut]

Originally Posted by Chatters

Every time I've told it not to play again it always does, after a while I gave up...

... and threw my computer out a window.

This was my experience .... the bloody thing simply will not take NO for an answer!

The faster and cleaner a site the better. The designers should concentrate on using as little bandwidth as possible with a clear and well indexed layout.

[Born Racer]

Originally Posted by fourWheelDrift

btw: I develop web applications for a living, but business process stuff not public sites, maybe that has some influence on my attitude.

I work as a travel agent and I don't like it when hotels have music on their sites; it just comes across at tacky to me, no matter what the music.

[GolddustMini]

not F1 but the wrc.com website is and always has been shockingly bad, it deters me from going because trying to find anything is a complete hastle and the news reports are completely out of date!

[Matt]

motorsport.com had the worst redesign ever, imo