RTE.ie new look website

battries not included

http://www.rte.ie/

I think it looks sh*t, anyone agree/disagree?

plonk

stop with these useless threads

Its too cluttered just like their old site

senordingdong

battries not included wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/

I think it looks sh*t, anyone agree/disagree?

Have they improved the quality of the content therein?

Kintarō Hattori

stop with these useless threads

It looks like the BBC site from 5 years ago.

smash

stop with these useless threads

It's brutal

battries not included

senordingdong wrote: »

Have they improved the quality of the content therein?

Not that I can see,

I did prefer the older site, although it look dated it was easy to navigate :rolleyes:

Gijoe

sh*t

I like it. Pretty clear, good hierarchy of headline and content, makes use of some good UI things like content scrollers. Took inspiration from guardian.co.uk me reckons.

A 1,000,000% improvement on the old one. (which wouldn't have been difficult)

Gone Drinking

I'd rather my tv licence fee go to the IT department or web design crowd they use, rather than towards the salaries of the arsehole presenters, or towards another crap program.

So i like it.

Saadyst

sh*t

Gijoe wrote: »

I like it. Pretty clear, good hierarchy of headline and content, makes use of some good UI things like content scrollers. Took inspiration from guardian.co.uk me reckons.

A 1,000,000% improvement on the old one. (which wouldn't have been difficult)

Agree. Old one seemed too image / flash dependent, taking forever to load and cluttered with tons of random crap you didn't care about.

Notorious97

Dont care, it is never up to date anyway, useless shower of cu*ts

jetsonx

stop with these useless threads

RTE had a user-friendly, well laid out and pleasing on the eye which I would of given 8 out of 10.


Now, the site layout is way "too busy" with way too much clutter and poor layout. Big Mistake RTE. 4 out of 10.

This site has broken most of the rules of web usability.


Obviously, some jobsworth in there had to justify their wages by meddling with the existing site.

Sanjuro

stop with these useless threads

Who the hell designed that? The head of broadcasting's 15 year old son?

Mars Bar

stop with these useless threads

should have asked me on a day where there isn't a liverpool flag and crystal swing on the homepage.

****.

TouchingVirus

stop with these useless threads

It's a very poor design. There is far too much happening on the homepage, the same with the news site.

Needs a revision to be honest, and a big tidy.

Kimono-Girl

stop with these useless threads

i cannot put my finger on why i don't like it....

it seems to me its like your grandfather putting on some bling, a&f and rapping to jay-z! for RTE it just doesn't work

Loughc

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I hate it, they;ve made it worse than it was before, its still an absolute cluster-fest of a home page, too much going on, and hating the layout of it! Yuck!

sagat2

sh*t

Massive improvement but still not great.

mike65

There is a thread somewhere else here about how they nicked the BBCs HTML

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

http://www.rte.ie/news/

anyone see a court case coming?

JerryHandbag

Its a bit slicker looking than what was there before, but then what was there before looked like a website from 1996.

I notice the sport section still uses the old design :rolleyes:

ballsymchugh

life & style....

life & style...


if only there was a way to make that just one word...

tricky D

mike65 wrote: »

There is a thread somewhere else here about how they nicked the BBCs HTML

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

http://www.rte.ie/news/

anyone see a court case coming?

In the Web Design forum. New RTE layout

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/gel/

It's not as bad as people make out. They have improved a fair bit. There are still UX/UI problems with it and it's not looking like it'll be made accessible anyday soon.

However, when the BBC changed their style, almost everybody slated it yet when the design changes again later they'll likely do the same slating.

From their feedback:

I have worked in newspapers for nearly 35 years. At EVERY design change, we were flooded with letters and phone calls from people who hated the new look. If we spoke to any at length, we always found, without exception, that what they hated was not the new look but change.

At one such exercise, in 1995, we kept the names and contact details of those who had been upset and, five years later, at the next wholesale change, were tickled to discover that these same people sent much the same letters, complaining that they had been robbed of a design they loved (despite complaining that they hated it five years previously).

PeterIanStaker

stop with these useless threads

Just clicked it there, so this is where taxpayers' money is going? :rolleyes:

Gijoe

sh*t

tricky D wrote: »

In the Web Design forum. New RTE layout

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/gel/

It's not as bad as people make out. They have improved a fair bit. There are still UX/UI problems with it and it's not looking like it'll be made accessible anyday soon.

However, when the BBC changed their style, almost everybody slated it yet when the design changes again later they'll likely do the same slating.

From their feedback:

That's it in a nutshell. People hated the old website but if they had come up with a world beating new design people would still give out just because its different. Can anyone give another news/similar type of website which they think does a better job and doesn't look cluttered?

ibarelycare

stop with these useless threads

battries not included wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/

I think it looks sh*t, anyone agree/disagree?

Yup.



Anyone else just vote so they could abuse the mult-choice poll?

Trevor451

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How come some bits of the site are in the new style while for example the rte live page is in the old style?
http://www.rte.ie/live/

smash

stop with these useless threads

Trevor451 wrote: »

How come some bits of the site are in the new style while for example the rte live page is in the old style?
http://www.rte.ie/live/

So is the motors section.

And the navigation is sh!te, if you say click entertainment, there's no obvious link to get back to the RTE homepage.

Mr Benevolent

Looks like a kid's site.

TouchingVirus

stop with these useless threads

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1013/rteie_redesigns.html

Go here, read and maybe if you can form coherant feedback you could give them an email. I know I will.

The Highwayman

stop with these useless threads

RTE News is my home page

Think I'll change it now don't like new look


Don't take change well it seems:o

My name is URL

sh*t

I think the homepage looks better than it did before, but compared to the BBC's design it's pretty shit looking still

JustAddWater

grrr

I hate it, not because of looks, because it does look great but simeply because every page repeatst he header as the first paragraph in the article!

Stupid! And the chilean miner story the other day has so many typos, errors, general parargraph formatting problems! Proof read people! c'mon!!!!

for example today:

The High Court has made no order for costs in a privacy and defamation case taken by Ruth Hickey against the Sunday World.

and repating directly underneath:



The High Court has made no order for costs in a case taken by Ruth Hickey against the Sunday World.


Almost all of the time! Its annoying!

jimthemental

stop with these useless threads

I think I'm just going to start using the times website altogether, indo is alright but very pretentious at times with subject choice

Rockn

stop with these useless threads

It's still a million times better than tv3.ie.

FTGFOP

stop with these useless threads

Separated at birth more like.
tv3
rte
...and built for widescreen!

Liam Byrne

battries not included wrote: »

anyone agree/disagree?

Yes.

Biggins

sh*t

To be fair, I've seen worse.