Comments on: Calling All Sports Fans – ESPN.com gets redesign

By: Property Management Software

Property Management Software — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:25:19 +0000

Jaan, Yup kinda looks like the foxsports page. Although, fox has absolutely no rights in my opinion due to their consistent blatant errors in news, so if ESPN can take some of their business, all the better.

By: Delusional Cubs Fan

Delusional Cubs Fan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:00:50 +0000

I’m a little mixed on the redesign. I agree with the poster who said getting rid of the auto-play video sidebar was a great idea. Big thumbs up their. But I don’t like that they moved the commentators blog posts out of the main “top stories” scrollbar. It used to be that every new story would be in the top stories section. Now they’re spread around. Big Thumbs Down for that.

By: Brad

Brad — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:52:07 +0000

I agree with all the advertising. I guess with all the traffic they get advertisers willing to pay a pretty dollar for it so why not but its still anoying

By: Soeren Sprogoe

Soeren Sprogoe — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:05:01 +0000

“Firefox prevented this site from opening 2 popup windows”.

*sigh*
Guess which website I’ll never visit again…

By: Zen Gardens

Zen Gardens — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:44:46 +0000

I don’t like their new one. I hated the old look, but the new one is even worse.

By: Scott Salwolke

Scott Salwolke — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:43:48 +0000

I do like the fact that they dropped the video feed. I’m not sure about the look, however. What is with all the red?

By: Sports Blog

Sports Blog — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:55:08 +0000

The new site design is still way to heavy on the advertising, but I guess they have to make money too. I wonder how many people actually are interested in anything they are advertising. It is just annoying to me.

By: Sporting News

Sporting News — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:53:42 +0000

I like ESPN better than most sports sites. That said, I wish they would get rid of their pop up ads which are the only pop ups able to get through my firefox browser and pop up blocker.

I like the new site better than before though.

By: wii fit

wii fit — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:27:35 +0000

It still looks a bit cluttered, but it has improved since the last time I visited ESPN

By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:08:20 +0000

Nothing like copying FoxSports.com exactly.

By: Kayden

Kayden — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:30:01 +0000

Their redesigns are always pretty subtle from my point of view. I think “less” clutter is definitely a relative term because sports sites always seem very cluttered to me. However, I never hear sports fans complain about them. I am sure sports fans would enjoy a cleaner interface but then ad monetization wouldn’t be as high to support development efforts and what would marketing agencies do with their time if they weren’t making ultra creative and super annoying ads like this Ford ad.

By: JustinM

JustinM — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:59:02 +0000

They finally got rid of their auto-play video sidebar! Yes! That change alone makes my espn.com experience 10 times better.

By: eric

eric — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:40:08 +0000

@Tom the annoying ad at http://a.espncdn.com/prestitial.html was pretty cool tho (check it out again) with the video-animation tie in

By: Dustin Fisher

Dustin Fisher — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:08:04 +0000

I really am enjoying the new design of ESPN. Much better than their old. The use of video is much better and flows well now. Very clunky before. They are definitely trying to push the personalization of their site now.

By: Tom Wanek

Tom Wanek — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:59:33 +0000

Well, I went to ESPN.com and was immediately hit with an ad boasting about their redesigned web site, and somehow tying it to the redesign Ford F150. The ad was an annoying video that played automatically. Ugh!