Extratime.ie new layout

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Originally Posted by Gareth

@GalwayHoop - Sorry you hate it. If you wish to expand on why you get a headache you can contact us at extratimeLive@gmail.com

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Hey Gareth, thanks for the reply. It is actually only the homepage that I dislike - far far far prefer the old format.

I find it very cluttered now and have to really search for each item. The pictures at the top seem a bit pointless to me and at a glance it is not as easy to keep track of scores on match night.

I actually wouldn't have dreamed of posting only that I was a big big fan of the old format, content wise the site is (still) top notch and the match updates are pure quality and a great source of info to us all.

Fully appreciate the fact it is voluntary too and kudos for that to you and all the reporters.

Just (for me) the home page is now less user friendly and cluttered resulting in me only using the site on match night and much less so throughout the week.

Some layout changes: http://extratime.ie/ (tables, reports)

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Originally Posted by Gareth

Some layout changes: http://extratime.ie/ (tables, reports)

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The new layout looks great on the desktop, especially with this big monitor I'm at now (the width is a little tight on my smaller monitor and lower spec graphics card at home, but it's fine there too).
It's good to freshen things up every once in a while, and I'm delighted that the general theme and structure is more or less unchanged (i.e. it has been updated, as opposed to overhauled), since there were no major problems with it -- as far as the casual user is concerned, the changes are minimal. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

But one (very) small issue I have is in the match pages, where you have navigation buttons for Build Up, Updates and Report. The "hover" colour of orange is difficult to read against the grey background. In fact, I find this colour combination very irritating. (I can't remember if it was like this in the old layout.)

The only other issue I have is that since the new layout has been implemented, whenever I access the Live Updates page on my phone (a relatively "dumb" phone, using Opera Mini 4.4) I have to scroll down a long way before I get to the table with the list of matches. This is more inconvenient than the old layout.
It may be possible to streamline this, by rearranging some of the code blocks, without affecting the layout for desktop users and those on smarter phones with bigger screens than my tiny phone. But I haven't looked into your page structure, so I don't know if this is an option.