Check out the new look for the site..yesterday the team introduced a new flash rotating top-story bar... www.rockets.com
Rockets.com really needs to improve their website this year. Im sure some of you know that CF had been denied access to the Rockets training camp because they said it would be unfair competition to the official site. CF ended up getting access again but not after a bunch of emails from CF members. It's not good when an official team site feels threatened by a fan site. It shows that they need to make some improvements. So far so good for Rockets.com and hopefully it can continue to improve.
Like the rest of NBA.com, the site is way too cluttered. There's all this marketing stuff mixed in with the actual basketball content, and it's a pain to sift through. The flash doesn't add anything to the site, as far as usability. I'm not a member of ClutchFans, but I quickly glanced at the layout and it's vastly superior.
Agreed. The site is way to clutted. Removing a little ads would help. I also like the new bar as well. Pretty neat.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting durvasa:</div><div class="quote_post">Like the rest of NBA.com, the site is way too cluttered. There's all this marketing stuff mixed in with the actual basketball content, and it's a pain to sift through. The flash doesn't add anything to the site, as far as usability. I'm not a member of ClutchFans, but I quickly glanced at the layout and it's vastly superior.</div> ClutchFans has a basic layout...I dont see anything too special with it...people say how CF is nice and the ultimate fan site but I dont see it...All I see is a fan forum where people debate and often come up with bogus trade ideas...they do have some video during the season, but at rockets.com, there's : player profiles, blogs from Rockets VPs, photo galleries, updated recaps of events such as training camp and practices, and various little segments such as rockets.com asks and rockets.com explains it all...For what it is, CF is nice but I just dont understand where people claim its remarkably better...
As a web designer (PM my for examples), I really like the preliminary design, but like you guys said, it's too cluttered. The main banner isn't too impressive, and neither are the drop downs, but overall, I think it's clean cut and impressive (the side bar on the left is too generic and there's not as much Flash as I'd like to see on an NBA site). I'll give the best NBA web site award to either the T'Wolves or the Grizzlies.
I Think that the design is so so. The ads dont bother me it just seems there is a lot of useless info flying around. I do, however enjoy the pics of the Power Dancers.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting bravest:</div><div class="quote_post"> I'll give the best NBA web site award to either the T'Wolves or the Grizzlies.</div> wow, really? I think the TWolves look is bland and the Grizzlies is so-so...being more involved with content and writing, I like the websites of the Heat, Pacers, Bulls, and Cavs...I honestly think that the Rockets are in the top 5 content-wise as far as NBA.com team sites...
