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Site looks better mainly cos has more consistent colour scheme.
I can't find any National League section :confused: Found table section alright which is badly laid out as very wide tables. Even at 1152*864 resolution i have to scroll across a lot to see.
Dunno what kind of resolution will display this properly! Sloppy work :eek:
I don't like the crest & IMO will be changed again within 10 years.
Try:
http://www1.fai.ie/
Works fine for me now!
try
http://www1.fai.ie/index.asp
that should load up the new site
Christ, that's one boot ugly logo.
The site is looking better though.
New logo, new site, same old ******* running it. What's the point?
The website is running and the new badge is up.
http://www.fai.ie/
At first site it looks like what my late pooch used to eat for his supper. :rolleyes:
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Have a look at the eL section. http://www.fai.ie/list.asp?lid=eircom_league Jokers.
I take back any positives i said about the "new" site. The layout is dire!!!!! I dunno what resolution it developed on but would be common practice to test it out on more standard user setup :rolleyes:
Also while i am it why launch new site but not launch shop & leave some secions blank.
Amateurs.
Very flashy crest, no doubt it'll be completely dated in six years and will require updating
It could have been worse (e.g. the previous version) but it's not good.
Site'll be ok once they iron out the gliches
Pete the page should resize to fit your browser window.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
It certainly does for me anyway.
You need to have patience with these things and surely you can appreciate that with your background.
Knocking the site for the sake of knocking it doesn't help anyone or achieve anything.
Post constructive criticism here if you have some, you never know who might read this thread.
My first opinion is positive.
I like the little league table at the bottom.
It looks professional and certainly looks better than this effort by the former World and European champions.
It was difficult enough to come up with a logo worse than the old one, but trust the FAI to pull it off. :eek:
New kit looks decent though.
I think the crest looks good, trendy like! Beats the sh.. out of the old one.
I'd disagree with suggestions that the site won't render properly on smaller resolutions, it looks to me like it'll render ok on 800x600 or above, and in this day and age you'd want to be a complete anal retentive to care very much about anything under that.
However the logo is mawky, and the site as a whole ain't much better. It's so stereotypically Oirish all it's short is a couple of leprechauns and some diddley-idle-eye music in the background. Yee-uch, money down the drain.
adam
The new jersy is an imporvement but jesus that crest is absolutley awful.
What is the logo actually meant to be? Is the dark green thing at the bottom meant to be a shamrock? What's the circle things above?
Rank ! the new crest is pants, but the site looks a hell of a lot better than the old one, once the problems are ironed out it'll be pretty good.
Fran has also decided, to save money, to change the match day programme. Which is bad news ! the last programe designed by new century publishing was QUALITY ! but the new crowd are quite poor, bad move IMO
If you can't see it there's really no hope for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
Sadly for those of you who don't like it you'll have to suffer it for a few years. Those of us who like it can look forward to a whole new wardrobe for Switzerland :D
It looks like someones robbed the logo for Eircom League weekly and scribbled FAIreland on top of it to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
i think the new logo looks great, i know in 5 years things will change but it looks great for now! The site looks a lot cleaner and ties a lot of things together, I like the way the Eircom League is there alongside the World Cup Qualfying group, it has focused on the future and development etc. Nice simply clean looking website. :) :)
I really don't like the new crest, my guess is it's meant to a celtic (not the club) rendition of a football.
it looks like it's a whole big money-spinning exercise with nothing else taken into consideration, is everyone else joining IrelandFans!?
OK i'll ease off the website for time being (judgement coloured by start to previous version). Maybe my views would be different if i worked on GUI element of s/w that exposed to the public.
But crest is manky & sad thing about crest is they probably a lot of cash & gave some speel about what it represents.
btw i'm using IE 5.5 & not see any advanced fuction for site to fit screen...
The crest looks like it's been designed by Milo Corcoran's hairstylist. It's better than the old one though so I'd give it a qualified thumbs up.
Jersey looks decent enough. I'll be in Dublin airport tomorrow & Friday so hopefully it'll be in the shops there. Hopefully the home kit will be available in long sleeves for once.
You should have gone to Specsavers!Quote:
Originally Posted by the_googler
It's a football with the three circles at the front representing a shamrock.
Very simple.
Makes a nice new wallpaper on my phone too.
Thank you slash/ed, it was bugging me where I thought i had seen it before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slash/ED
I've figured it out, they're flying lollipops.
The site is exactly the same, isn't it? Look at the squad page. They've taken exactly the same text and cut and paste it wholesale into a new look. That's not a new website at all.
Done the same thing with the League tables. And I notice they still haven't updated the U21 tables.Quote:
Originally Posted by brine3
My thoughts:
- They make all this hoopla about launching a new site yet their "Shop" page isnt available
- "Contact The CEO" link. Yeah, thats a blast.
- Still the only nation with a sponsor on their replica shirts?
- The new logo? With FAIreland on it? Looks like "F--k All Ireland" to me. Why cant they just have a simple shamrock and be done with it?
- Reminds me of my first car(my 1977 mini). Same old crap. Just a different paint job.
The Crest is shocking! the New home jersey doesnt look bad though!
seems like there is some hardened bitter people here, its better than the old site, concentrate on the positve :)
In fairness thats what all football associations are about. FAI need the cash!Quote:
it looks like it's a whole big money-spinning exercise
If you click on the "amateur" section, you get a page from the old site with the old logo. Amateurs indeed.
Jesus, talk about bitterness. Give them a chance lads, they're moving in the right direction, might be a few hiccups, but its a lot better then the old site. Give it a month and if its crap then well fair enough, but its only bene out for a few hours..
I suspect problems with trademarking that which means any fecker can make rip off "replica" jerseys.Quote:
Originally Posted by Metrostars
Must be embarishing for FAI to hype the great re-lauch but as you said just a touch up of the paint...
Anyone register their details for memebership yet?
They ask for credit card details, yet the connection is not secure, it's just a normal HTTP post.
JOKERS!
Well I am bitter, every other association has a decent logo, but we had supersonic footballs and now we get flying lollipops.Quote:
Jesus, talk about bitterness. Give them a chance lads, they're moving in the right direction, might be a few hiccups, but its a lot better then the old site. Give it a month and if its crap then well fair enough, but its only bene out for a few hours..
Check out some of these:
http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/logos...allLogo181.gif
http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/logos...allLogo192.gif
http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/logos...allLogo176.gif
http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/logos...allLogo151.gif
http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/logos...allLogo170.gif
http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/logos...allLogo187.gif
http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/logos...allLogo164.gif
Now look at ours.
Thanks for that, you've reinforced my opinion that our crest is DEADLY!Quote:
Originally Posted by brine3
I'm going to fire off a mail to some of my mates from various countries and ask them what they think.
Brine3, I am absolutely positive we'd have lots of unhappy people of FAI produced a logo similar to those above. Its just impossible for us to be happy with anything the FAI do.
I know it sounds like a daft idea .. but why didn't they ask people their opinions about the crest. Simple market research. Or at least ask the right people .. like people from this board.
And while they are it why don't they change their name too from FAI ... do we always have to ape the FA in England. What about using that language of ours ...
Webpage looks much fresher though . and the online shop is a good idea to make some extra cash for themselves.
The crest is awful. It looks very bad put on jerseys. As for the site...It aint too great. Also whenever I type www.fai.ie. I still get onto the old site, why is this? :confused: