Author Topic: New USBC Website (Read 16761 times)

morpheus · « **on:** August 03, 2009, 12:57:20 PM »

That is easily one of the worst website redsigns in the history of the internet. As a USBC member, I'm embarrased by the site and think the boneheads responsible should be fired.

mmcfarland300 · « **Reply #16 on:** August 04, 2009, 10:06:07 AM »

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Great question mumzie, if we're at work, how do we get to the Women's U.S. Open results?
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This is where you can find the info your looking for. http://bowl.com/tournaments/uswomensopen/
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Nor Cal Bowler · « **Reply #17 on:** August 04, 2009, 10:06:48 AM »

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They aren't done with the upgrades yet. The membership lookup feature is in the top right pull down bar. I would imagine the old sheets will be added back on alot of the info says it is still being updated.
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I was looking up member averages last night and they were not available. Why in the hell would they not be available!?!?
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J_w73 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 04, 2009, 10:13:45 AM »

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They aren't done with the upgrades yet. The membership lookup feature is in the top right pull down bar. I would imagine the old sheets will be added back on alot of the info says it is still being updated.
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I was looking up member averages last night and they were not available. Why in the hell would they not be available!?!?
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I just googled usbc member averages and the link took me to the old member average page..

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Nor Cal Bowler · « **Reply #19 on:** August 04, 2009, 10:27:08 AM »

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They aren't done with the upgrades yet. The membership lookup feature is in the top right pull down bar. I would imagine the old sheets will be added back on alot of the info says it is still being updated.
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BowlingChat.net
http://forums.hammerbowling.com

"Another day will bring a different result"
"Pick your battles because stressing over things will not change an outcome"

I was looking up member averages last night and they were not available. Why in the hell would they not be available!?!?
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http://s450.photobucket.com/albums/qq229/NorCalBowler/visionary/

Are you suffering from "ball death"? PM me, I'll paypal you the shipping costs to take it off your hands.

I just googled usbc member averages and the link took me to the old member average page..

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16-17 mph,350 rpm,PAP 5 1/2 x 3/8up, HighGame 300 x 3, High Series 782
Book Average 215 / 205,PBA Xperience ave180

yeah if I pull it off my saved bookmarks the old link still works but if you go through the new site's steps it says it's unavailable.
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Chief BK · « **Reply #20 on:** August 04, 2009, 10:36:57 AM »

I'm definitely not impressed.
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psaunders300 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 04, 2009, 11:47:19 AM »

I posted this over at BBE, here are my impressions:

A lot of stuff is still unavailable and I received several action script errors just by simple clicking...not too impressive of a job. The UI looks rushed and a little unprofessional to me (I'm a professional), but somewhat better than the old interface. It will probably pizz-off some people off who have slower broadband connections as there are a ton more graphics, flash, etc. which take a while to dl. Air card and dial up users are basically screwed from seeing the new site as it will take forever to dl for them...

I use Firefox when I can and there were other display issues with the interface..I tried to open the website using IE 6 on my work laptop (my company still uses this as a corporate standard) and I get the message "Please Upgrade Your Browser" (with some broken image links to boot). It seems they designed it only for IE 7 / 8 with no support for other browsers - this is a very, very BAD decision as there are still a TON of people using browsers other than IE 7 / 8. According to "The Counter" web site (http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2009/March/browser.php), IE 6 is, as of March 2009, still the second most used browser in the world, with a 33% market share.

Our sanction money at work...woohoo! WTG USBC!!

In the USBC's defense and as a web designer and developer, IE 6 totally sucks as a web browser. It does not implement CSS very well at all, which means you must code to the lowest common denominator (CSS 1.0) and/or put hacks into your CSS...there are also numerous bugs in IE 6 that have kicked my butt from an enterprise application point of view...in one case my company's firewall stopped letting my users into the corporate database via a web app that I developed due to what it thought was a Denial Of Service attack but in reality was an IE 6 image caching bug...bad Microsoft, bad.
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Debina · « **Reply #22 on:** August 04, 2009, 06:23:28 PM »

My first post on the new bowl.com forums got snagged for "moderation". Lovely.
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atltnpnr · « **Reply #23 on:** August 04, 2009, 10:15:51 PM »

Debina they all get held for moderation now. Some don't even see the light of day. Notice that there is no bad things said yet?

Not tawkin language either.
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Debina · « **Reply #24 on:** August 04, 2009, 11:48:08 PM »

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Debina they all get held for moderation now. Some don't even see the light of day. Notice that there is no bad things said yet? Not tawkin language either.
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Wow!

Somebody's going to be very busy keeping the posts up to date. I did notice they're looking for forum "moderators". Could be interesting to see who gets chosen.
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Atochabsh · « **Reply #25 on:** August 05, 2009, 09:54:15 AM »

Moderate what?

The bowl.com boards were the slowest most unused forum I've seen in a while.

Erin

dicnic · « **Reply #26 on:** August 05, 2009, 10:10:53 AM »

I'm running Firefox 3.0.13 and the USBC site looks and works pretty good to me. Yes, it opens a new page when you click on a link or you can set Firefox to open a new tab instead. Nuttin' wrong with that!

If it does not work right on IE, good for them!
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windss · « **Reply #27 on:** August 05, 2009, 12:51:59 PM »

The "Search for members" link is not working. I tried yesterday and today.

Jorge300 · « **Reply #28 on:** August 05, 2009, 01:08:22 PM »

I am not impressed with the Navigation.

I wanted to look at the 2009 USBC Open results, the individual results where it lists what you made. The only 2009 results were the "Other" results, Superbrackets, 1,5,9 jackpots, etc. Where are the rest of them?

As far as the site, the graphics are good, I like the new look, but Navigation is utterly horrible. Overall I think it is worse then the old one. And it appears they have removed all the old forum topics....nothing transferred over. So all the history in there is gone. Another black mark in my opinion.
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Nor Cal Bowler · « **Reply #29 on:** August 05, 2009, 01:53:52 PM »

The website site is FREAKING HORRIBLE!! Old site had our sport league standing sheets online. Now they can't be found!
The USBC on a national level is a joke! I tried calling about a question and I go right to voicemail if I use the menu. I call again, press zero, the operator was rude and didn't transfer me to the right department. Just plain unexcusible customer service!! This is why we lose bowlers!
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MI 2 AZ · « **Reply #30 on:** August 05, 2009, 03:46:35 PM »

Nor Cal,

I read a message on their site somewhere that said all of the old standing sheets data is gone. Until the league secretary posts a new one, that is.

One new feature will be that all of the older weekly sheets posted will be available instead of only the most recent one. But that doesn't help any of us who wanted to get a copy of last season's final standings sheet.

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