This site is crying out for a redesign

I don't hear anything.

I love the message board set up.

I'd like to search for three letter words like DOW and USA.

But i like the list of subjects that you drill down into.

Go away, just go away, you "web designer".

Couldn't agree more. This site is a dinosaur, the message board searches are a joke, you can't ever find anything. Hard to take it seriously wit these flaws.

web gm wrote:

I've designed and managed dozens of web properties. Most of which have had > 1M monthly unique visitors.

Nobody asked for your opinion. Now that you gave it anyway, we care even less.

If you don't like it, leave, you won't be missed.

Maybe since you've "designed and managed dozens of web properties. Most of which have had > 1M monthly unique visitors" you can design your own website for running?

Either way, STFU.

ksdww wrote:

web gm wrote:

I've designed and managed dozens of web properties. Most of which have had > 1M monthly unique visitors.

Nobody asked for your opinion. Now that you gave it anyway, we care even less.

If you don't like it, leave, you won't be missed.

Maybe since you've "designed and managed dozens of web properties. Most of which have had > 1M monthly unique visitors" you can design your own website for running?

Either way, STFU.

LOL!

Thank you for epitomizing what's wrong with lrc in so few words.

web gm wrote:

Thank you for epitomizing what's wrong with lrc in so few words.

Everyone who took a web design class is an expert.....

What's wrong with the site? Only that it's one of the most successful running sites on the Internet. Clearly someone is doing a terrible job.

Show us your work. I'll bet it's not as good as you think.

I can agree with you to an extent. There's an at large working theory that ugly sites sell (google it) and another non at large theory that the running community is rather senile.

So opening up the discussion respectfully how do you improve a community that is satisfied with the way things are? No authentication, everyone knows "the drill", people know where to find things, people LIKE to find things (rummaging), etc.

Elaborating more on the rummaging aspect to the running forums out there, people like to open up random threads and locate nuggets of info that isn't properly identified and linked to from a jquery-animated drop down navigation bar. For instance, a coach's dream day is to uncover a recruit that no one else thought of be it a cut from a soccer team or a new comer from a different sport with boat loads of talent. It's the leads and thread titles generated by the the invisible hand of anonymity that make letsrun what it is. If we migrated to another platform maybe anonymity wouldn't be entirely possible without the hassle of working against some existing web framework like discourse, phpbb, vbulletin, wordpress, etc. and allowing for anonymous posting.

Track Timer wrote:

Everyone who took a web design class is an expert.....

What's wrong with the site? Only that it's one of the most successful running sites on the Internet. Clearly someone is doing a terrible job.

Show us your work. I'll bet it's not as good as you think.

I love this layout/web design. Change isn't always good.

web gm wrote:

http://www.themostamazingwebsiteontheinternet.com/

SWEET!

OK.

Here's my website:

http://thehomepage.biz

I like it because:

it's old a trusty, like a boring old spreadsheet.

I like that there's no registration, or worse yet "register by FB". Nobody ever really discusses anything with those formats.

the only thing I hate is those videos and video ads.

Track Timer wrote:

Everyone who took a web design class is an expert.....

The OP probably didn't take a class unless he was at a tech school. Instead, he learned to do a little CSS after copying and pasting from someone else's work and now he's an expert.

Star wrote:

OK.

Here's my website:

http://thehomepage.biz

Very nice. I like how it takes absolutely forever to load. The anticipation factor is off the charts. Nothing like serving up 370kb just to load a homepage. Very nice.

Track Timer wrote:

Star wrote:

OK.

Here's my website:

http://thehomepage.biz

Very nice. I like how it takes absolutely forever to load. The anticipation factor is off the charts. Nothing like serving up 370kb just to load a homepage. Very nice.

Yeah, it's got a bunch of stuff on there.

I'll put everything on and figure what to take off to make it better. It's a start.

But once it's loaded, juts leave it up to quickly link to other sites or check the headlines.

Star wrote:

But once it's loaded, juts leave it up to quickly link to other sites or check the headlines.

Or you're an absolute idiot

SlipperyPete13 wrote:

Couldn't agree more. This site is a dinosaur, the message board searches are a joke, you can't ever find anything. Hard to take it seriously wit these flaws.

Why would you want to take letsrun seriously?

I love how everytime that someone points out that this website has horrible navigation/presentation, a bunch of old blowhards spout off, "Just go away if you don't like it! Everyone here thinks it's just fine!"

That is, of course, a self-selecting survey of sorts. All the potential visitors who don't use the site due to its flaws don't get to chime in. That's where the Brojos are losing money. There are definitely potential users who want T&F/running news but never become regular letsrun visitors because the navigation/search functions are so very, very poor.

Let's be honest, the blowhards who want pro T&F news bad enough to regularly visit this site aren't go to leave in protest if the site were easier to navigate/search and such an overall would definitely help attract news visitors.

I'm not talking about the forum at all, just the regular site.