the afl.com.au website

[deanox 8,582]

i know this comes up occassionally, but i cant believe how slow the afl site lacks to load and to simply do anything. they could learn alot from baggygreen.com which is fantastic with its cricket coverage...

[CHAMP 347]

i know this comes up occassionally, but i cant believe how slow the afl site lacks to load and to simply do anything. they could learn alot from baggygreen.com which is fantastic with its cricket coverage...

Adobe has a lot to answer for. A Flashy website is not necessarily a superior one. Whilst more colourful than its predecessor it is perhaps even more inept. Probably a lot of footy fans would be happy with a straight text presentation but of course this would preclude advertising options. Heaven forbid.

[45HG 1,539]

so true. it's funny when you follow the scores on the gameday pop-up. think you know the score, then turn on the radio to find its 2 goals different. money hungry bastards

[71 Molloy 266]

Flash should be wiped from the face of the Earth!

[kryton 0]

Flash should be wiped from the face of the Earth!

Its a right pain for me to read the site at work - our network is (rightly) controlled and so without the latest flash player you end up with half a site.

[Kiss of Death 708]

I know that if they had the option (which of course they don't, progress and all that) i'd be sticking with the text only version.. if only for the reason that we'd created a spreadsheet in excel that would download the stats page and you'd have up to date fantasy footy scores!

[Courtney_Fish 183]

Is there a web award for bad? The AFL must have a large team working on their web site because 1 person just could not do it so badly. A visit to this site is just about a guarantee of a bad mood. To call this site useless would be flattering it. I would rate it 2nd only to today’s umpiring.

[Madness 44]

Give me simple HTML over flash anyday, the flash stats are annoying to navigate imo...

[occo 2]

I hate the AFL site. Took 20 seconds to load and im on broadband. Really sucks. I like their game day live but everything else is hard to navigate and slow as hell.

[praha 10,277]

the site is practically unloading if your on dial-up. When I go to my cousins place at Torquey, which is often, he has dial-up and you're waiting about 10 minutes for it to load fully. Even on dial-up, thats shocking.

[deanox 8,582]

another point is the stats on the website are usless.

the afl have stats people doing absolutely every stat known to man. why dont we have access to these? they cant make money off them they should be made public.

[Demon Head 250]

another point is the stats on the website are usless.

the afl have stats people doing absolutely every stat known to man. why dont we have access to these? they cant make money off them they should be made public.

The site is crap. It's hard to navigate your way around it and some of the features are almost impossible to find. Not very user friendly.

[Nasher 33,047]

Adobe has a lot to answer for. A Flashy website is not necessarily a superior one. Whilst more colourful than its predecessor it is perhaps even more inept. Probably a lot of footy fans would be happy with a straight text presentation but of course this would preclude advertising options. Heaven forbid.

Adobe don't have anything to answer for. Flash is just one of their products, they don't force people to use it. The AFL and the crew they contracted to develop their site (Telstra) are the ones who have a lot to answer for. The current AFL website stinks.

[Courtney_Fish 183]

Adobe don't have anything to answer for. Flash is just one of their products, they don't force people to use it. The AFL and the crew they contracted to develop their site (Telstra) are the ones who have a lot to answer for. The current AFL website stinks.

I don't understand why a footballer can be nicknamed after computer software.

[DEES 0]

agree, those guys working on the afl site are idiots, it was better the way it was before.

[jacey 333]

Adobe don't have anything to answer for. Flash is just one of their products, they don't force people to use it. The AFL and the crew they contracted to develop their site (Telstra) are the ones who have a lot to answer for. The current AFL website stinks.

AFL site is rubbish but how can u have a go at Adobe, Champ.

That's like blaming the shovel when no one wants to dig.

[Dreamin' Demon 10]

so true. it's funny when you follow the scores on the gameday pop-up. think you know the score, then turn on the radio to find its 2 goals different. money hungry bastards

And forcing you to choose the radio broadcasts THEY want you to listen to when listening via their website.

[CHAMP 347]

AFL site is rubbish but how can u have a go at Adobe, Champ.

That's like blaming the shovel when no one wants to dig.

It is Adobe who put the figurative loaded gun in the hands of so many fools. Of course I don't imagine that the company would have envisaged the creation of aberrations such as the AFL site. It's a lot like Frankenstein and his monster. Sites like Youtube are already choking the internet with absolute rubbish.

We should ask ourselves "How would the AFL website be without Flash Animation?"

[CHAMP 347]

Adobe don't have anything to answer for. Flash is just one of their products, they don't force people to use it. The AFL and the crew they contracted to develop their site (Telstra) are the ones who have a lot to answer for. The current AFL website stinks.

The flash explosion didn't really happen until about 18 months ago. It was about that time when Macromedia Flash sold out to Adobe. Is it just possible that during the period of which I speak various professional webmasters have been copping freebies? So I admit hat it's actually Macromedia which has lot to answer for. The software facilitates irresponsible and thoughtless web design.