It's happened- the new saints.com.au

saintbrat · Post: # 531703Post **saintbrat** » Thu 13 Mar 2008 11:09pm

whilst you've all been busy or sleeping Saints .com.au has changed

http://saints.com.au/

which page are you checking first- new membership thermomoter
I like the events calender

tis certainly loading faster

ausfatcat · Post: # 531710Post **ausfatcat** » Thu 13 Mar 2008 11:24pm

where's saint central???

Enrico_Misso · Thu 13 Mar 2008 11:26pm

Looks a bit better.
Will take a while to get used to it.

Or better
Just stick with WoM and Saintsational

If it's worth noting it will be on those sites.

saintdooley · Thu 13 Mar 2008 11:27pm

ausfatcat wrote:where's saint central???

yeah! ffs, if i have to read that "comming soon" sign once more i will go crazy!

and i dont really like the new saints site......looks weird.....and looks like a kids games site, just the way its set out and stuff.

saintsRrising · Thu 13 Mar 2008 11:31pm

A very busy looking page......and you need to scroll down to get toa lot of stuff.

I like the calendar though...

chook23 · Post: # 531720Post **chook23** » Fri 14 Mar 2008 12:18am

saintsRrising wrote:A very busy looking page......and you need to scroll down to get toa lot of stuff.

I like the calendar though...

Hall of fame night 12th March.......link no info

any news about the night.........

Was it promoted?

avid · Post: # 531733Post **avid** » Fri 14 Mar 2008 1:38am

The graphics are fresh. (lovely red white and black!)
The layout is busy.

But -- is it my computer or what -- it's so slow! Try going from one player profile back to the list and onto the next. So slow I can't even cope!!

(I always wondered if bigpond sponsored the AFL's sites to make them so cumbersome that we'd all have to upgrade our broadband services.)

Apart from that, I'm happy with the player profile format. Now we await the content. There are some curious anomalies there now! Jayden Attard has growth-spurted into a much taller Jarryn Allen lookalike. And it seems he played four games for Brisbane last year! And it sure is nice to have Brent Guerra back in the team! Go Mini-G!

But my serious plea to whoever does the profiles is PLEASE give us fresh, up-to-date heights and weights stats! I want to know how big (or trim) they've got now -- not two seasons ago, or when they were first recruited.

Does anyone know whether the website writers read this forum? I'm new to it -- just interested if any of the concversation here gets fed into the system?

bigmicka · Post: # 531738Post **bigmicka** » Fri 14 Mar 2008 7:25am

hey brat they fixed something up for you.

mic

saintbrat · Post: # 531740Post **saintbrat** » Fri 14 Mar 2008 7:58am

yeh mic- but I'd still like the exact number underneath ( as Bombers do )- I liked the scroll BUt it wasn't updated qquickly enough

curious anomolies re player profiles indeed- Brent G popped up this morning- I guess when you transfer over a whole heap of info some is likely to get missed

ALWAYS with websites they are only as good as their upkeep and constant info. there have been several posters on here over the years who have had a go and it doesn't last the season

hence Kudos to the Peanut for manageing to keep WOM fresh for so long

Chook23

Does anyone know whether the website writers read this forum? I'm new to it -- just interested if any of the concversation here gets fed into the system?

if you check the staff list on saints.com.au I think you may find a contact for the Website listed.-- perhaps some suggestions will alert him to what supporters feel is important and what they want to see and know.

I too like the player profiles with links to articles , photos and stats for each player.AS LONG AS IT'S KEPT relevant.

Moccha · Post: # 531742Post **Moccha** » Fri 14 Mar 2008 8:15am

It' still crap!

Go Sretnias Go · Fri 14 Mar 2008 9:51am

If that's the Club's official site, it is still a load of incompetant crap - or garbage in softer terms.
There is no doubt in my mind that the controlled management of the site is dictated to by the AFL in conjunction with BigPond/Telstra for revenue control purposes to help satisfy the greed that engulfs the AFL and certain personnel therein.
The only way that we can get any efficiency out of our own site is to subscribe to BigPond and I can assure one and all, I certainly won't be doing that.
Anyway, Saintsational.com and the Peanut's WOM are the Club sites as far as I am concerned. It will be very interesting, incidently, to see if Sainters .com actually gets off the ground - maybe the AFL will make it too difficult and too hard to get it going.

riccardo · Post: # 531809Post **riccardo** » Fri 14 Mar 2008 11:28am

IMO, the thermometer is poor.

All I know is its more than 22000 but less than 27000.

Give us an ACTUAL figure.

Site is fine otherwise.

Go Sretnias Go · Fri 14 Mar 2008 11:35am

Riccardo, if you ring the Club you will proberbly find out!

riccardo · Post: # 531814Post **riccardo** » Fri 14 Mar 2008 11:40am

Go Sretnias Go wrote:Riccardo, if you ring the Club you will proberbly find out!

Would if I could. I'm actually at work right now, and thats supposed to be what the website is for.

Go Sretnias Go · Fri 14 Mar 2008 11:51am

Well do some work then!!!

Banger2Plugger · Fri 14 Mar 2008 1:14pm

It has to be some SICK joke!!!!!

Brent Guerra in our player profiles...wait for it.....IN A HAWTHORN JUMPER!!!!!!

Brent hasn't been our list for what - 2 seasons now????

Absolutely pathetic, damaging to the saints brand, GET HIM OFF NOW!

rogerwa · Post: # 531851Post **rogerwa** » Fri 14 Mar 2008 1:25pm

apart from sitting on his arze playing computer games whats our wizz bang nerd at saints central done to earn his crust ...sfa & we are paying him/her whilst they play star wars on their computer

saintdooley · Fri 14 Mar 2008 1:29pm

Banger2Plugger wrote:It has to be some SICK joke!!!!!

Brent Guerra in our player profiles...wait for it.....IN A HAWTHORN JUMPER!!!!!!

Brent hasn't been our list for what - 2 seasons now????

Absolutely pathetic, damaging to the saints brand, GET HIM OFF NOW!

wtf
what is that dog doing on the saints page?

Sainter_Boy · Fri 14 Mar 2008 1:44pm

Just a quick note - dont try and sort into numerical order it goes 1, 10, .. 19, 2, 20, 21 .....

magnifisaint · Fri 14 Mar 2008 2:50pm

riccardo wrote:IMO, the thermometer is poor.

All I know is its more than 22000 but less than 27000.

Give us an ACTUAL figure.

Site is fine otherwise.

Isn't it IMHO?

magnifisaint · Fri 14 Mar 2008 2:51pm

riccardo wrote:
Go Sretnias Go wrote:Riccardo, if you ring the Club you will proberbly find out!
Would if I could. I'm actually at work right now, and thats supposed to be what the website is for.

So you can waste time at work?

riccardo · Post: # 531909Post **riccardo** » Fri 14 Mar 2008 4:12pm

magnifisaint wrote:
riccardo wrote:
Go Sretnias Go wrote:Riccardo, if you ring the Club you will proberbly find out!
Would if I could. I'm actually at work right now, and thats supposed to be what the website is for.
So you can waste time at work?

That is 5 degrees north of none of your damn business.

I thought persona; attacks were not allowed now - seems the "new" Saintsational isn't so new after all.

bergholt · Post: # 531932Post **bergholt** » Fri 14 Mar 2008 5:08pm

that's undoubtedly one of the worst websites i've seen. about thirty javascript applets all trying to start up at the same time when you open the page - never heard of ajax or ruby on rails? every time you switch pages it takes about a minute to just display the new page. it's an absolutely horrible piece of architecture. design is ok but the coding is unbearably bad. (and good luck using google to search a site where all the content is in applets - though i think that's what they're going for.)

telstra really do pollute the internet with their work. the afl site's been getting worse for years and now it's unbearable as well.

sunsaint · Post: # 531944Post **sunsaint** » Fri 14 Mar 2008 6:10pm

I pray that a few of the StKilda Board visit this fan forum, because i want them to hear this loud and clear.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHY WE COMPLAINED TO G WESTAWAY.
The old website was nothing more than a Bigpond website ported from the AFL.
The new website is nothing more than a Bigpond website ported from the AFL.
Nothing has changed, and Im so disappointed. This was meant to be a new site written from the ground up, written for us.
The layout is confused and busy, & the coding is so bloated.
And hear this marketing people, I REFUSE to click on advertising links for dating/telstra related websites. Try to think about audience related links. If the club is expecting revenue from this website they had better get ready for a rude shock.
You might not believe in conspiracy theories, but try this on for size;
it takes over 20minutes++ to load the front page at 56kb. Unusable, which forces you on to broadband.
Broadband companies (Bigpond-Telstra) love people who go over quota:
The front page has @ 5mb of data just to load the front page, but this is a bit understated because if you left the page open all day that would increase because of the constant reloading of data.
Believe me this is the first and last time I will be going to saints.com.au
WOM and SS for me.
Now if we can only get those two people talking we might have something.
Peanut + SS + supporter contributions = the best saints site ever.

magnifisaint · Fri 14 Mar 2008 8:21pm

riccardo wrote:
magnifisaint wrote:
riccardo wrote:
Go Sretnias Go wrote:Riccardo, if you ring the Club you will proberbly find out!
Would if I could. I'm actually at work right now, and thats supposed to be what the website is for.
So you can waste time at work?
That is 5 degrees north of none of your damn business.

I thought persona; attacks were not allowed now - seems the "new" Saintsational isn't so new after all.

Keep your skirt on princess