Official Website

Operated by ' FL Interactive Limited' as are many other football club websites. Doubt BFC have much say in the design, it looks like templated package.

just the same as http://www.swanseacity.net/

 

I'm sure they will be well interested to hear you comments...

 

i dont go on it as i cant be arsed to deal with the amount of adverts on it, especially the one you have to click on to get to the main web page.

 

Good luck tomfun, I hope you get somewhere because I've stopped using it. Like you say it's a shambles and navigating around it is impossible.

 

My comment earlier was sarky -soz . They won't give a f what you say. People who turn out this level of crap aren't interested in feedback .
You are better contacting the club and asking why they employing amateurs to use a run a major comms channel on their behalf.(you'll be wasting you're breath tho).
All comms and marketing at our club are pathetic-completely amateur...

 

Absolutely crap website. Better using this bulletin board.

 

My laptop isn't that old yet when I go on the website with Internet Explorer the thing almost grinds to a halt, a lot faster on Google Chrome but still feels clunky.

Whoever put it together has tried to cram far too much on it, and I thought those 'click to enter site' pop ups had gone out of fashion in 1998.

They made a big thing about the new sites coming in a few months ago, I think Barnsley was the first to get it, some clubs haven't had it that long so we'll be stuck with it for a while yet.

 

Mark Stokes is responsible for it isn't he?

 

I think so. The twitter comms channel for the club over the last two years has been appallingly handed too....

 

To me, and I am only an outsider I don't know the bloke from Adam but, Mark Stokes seems to run 'projects', gets them up and running, and then moves on and the previous 'projects' just turn to ****.

 

The website is probably the worst I have encountered on the WWW. I gave up with it at the beginning of the season and haven't even visited in the last 4/5 months, I know it will be a waste of time.

 

The site is all about driving player subscriptions which they earn quite a few bob from, both through the payments people make and the advertising. The technology to deliver live match commentary is also part of this. If they make they're own site (which I'm sure they'd be entitled to do) they would lose this revenue as well as a way to broadcast matches.

For this reason I don't think they'd be bothered about having one done, even if it was free. You would think that Barnsley and other clubs are passing on feedback about the site, best we can hope is that it gets redone before next season starts. It's always been pretty light on news anyway so I don't see it as a big loss for those who avoid it.

It's a shame the alternative club sites seem to be set up but not sustained, some decent ones have popped up over the years but then just stopped being updated for some reason.

 

Money making from the FL as per usual. Stopped using it last season as they are so slow at updating it with recent news. I bet it still hasn't broken the Hill sacked news yet and still has Hendrie and Wilkinson listed as our first choice strikers.

 

It's like a baby has puked a load of half chewed words onto my screen

Boxes everywhere but whereas the widget idea could be quite neat, these boxes are ugly, poorly formatted and often only display part of the headline. The main banner pictures are cropped by the menu bar meaning player's gruesome heads are often chopped off. The whole website doesn't scale properly (I open my browser and drag it to the left of the screen) and it only looks semi-readable in full screen mode. The articles are sparse which makes the amount of adverts look like a shirt a racing driver would wear. We know why the sponsors are there but they need to be balanced with content.

On the front page they ask what do we think of their new website. 69% don't like it, 8% aren't sure, presumably wondering whether it will be improved anytime soon and a staggering 23% obviously didn't understand the question, possibly because the words were all jumbled up on their screens, possibly because their vision was impaired by the blood dripping down from their keyboard beaten foreheads.