After being down for more than a 15 days, the FAMU Athletic Department today launched a new athletics website. The site which went live this afternoon still has more than a few holes. You can see the new site here.
We'll talk about it more this evening or tomorrow and include pictures of the site. The new site is being funded by the FAMU Boosters.
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I am sure this saves the school some money since it no longer has to pay CBS/CSTV to host it. It looks pretty cheap though. I know very little about web design and I could put this website together. I really hope what I am looking at is not the finished product.
ReplyDeleteit saves the school money when the Boosters pay for it !
ReplyDeleteAt first glance- GARBAGE!
ReplyDeleteVery much garbage!
ReplyDeleteon first glance and 2nd glance too.
Booster main page, down at the bottom under Membership. The word is "privileges" NOT "privaledges". The spellcheck feature on your computer is a wonderful thing.
ReplyDeleteThey should have just went with a blog!
ReplyDeleteA half-a** poorly designed site, done in cheap basic HTML code, complete with broken links abound. Why didn't they allow the design to be a graphics design project for our Graphics Design students, who BTW, have unlimited design imagination and talent?
ReplyDeleteThat's what we get with the Cast-HELL holdovers. Incompetence at its finest.
I agree with the 11:04 blogger. This could have been a great summer internship/project with graphic design, marketing and CIS students. Whomever is hosting this site if you paid anyone for this mess...you should get your money back. This site is horrible and HTML 101 at best. FAMU deserves much better.
ReplyDeleteI bet this site is not sponsored by the university...the entire athletics section of the famu.edu website is blank.
If the university (and particularly athletics) is looking for financial support from alumni you need to PRESENT a better product. A website that allows users to donate via Paypal and/or credit card would be a great start. Hello Hayes...wake up! Phone calls....paLEEZEE! FAMU's CIO should have insisted on nothing less than that. Anyone who's taken Marketing/Advertising 101 in the last few years can tell you the web is the fastest, most efficient, global tool to use for solicitations.
This is terrible and should be pulled. Why go live with an incomplete web site? Our Journalism or engineering students should be allowed to manage this site. I expected more and I'm quite disappointed with what I see so far.
ReplyDeleteThere are rules for developing websites and this one has broken quite a few. That's why it's hard to read! It's not appealing and it appears it won't be informative. Very, very, dissapointing. FAMU, do I have your permission to solicit help from Alumni and friends to correct this site?
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ReplyDeleteOne question: Why is Mickey Clayton STILL in the Boosters office?
ReplyDeletewhy is mickey sr. assoc ad ?
ReplyDeleteThe site itself is a tad elementary, but that's okay.
ReplyDeleteI don't need a seizure inducing webpage with dancing midgets and fire breathing dragons. This is a university athletics site, not a Criss Angel webpage.
But they might have wanted to do a "soft opening" of the webpage first rather than pumping out a press release. An incomplete website is just as bad as no website at all.
My largest concern is advertising space. Hayes was very smart to bring in so many advertisers on the old page, we just need to make sure we keep them and bring in more on the new page, that is not negotiable in my book.
i like the fact that we are going internal; being self sufficient with our website. indeed why pay tens of thousands of dollars to someone else that we can darn well do ourselves and probably better! i agree that the site could use major improvements though, and should've been fully operational before public release. i also like the idea submitted above about a web competition among our talented students in engin, cis, web design, graphics arts. that would've been a better way to go than this basic new site we have right now.
ReplyDeleteto my understanding, since cbs bought cstv, they raised the subscription fee for web hosting and that's why FAMU no longer has an account with them. however there are cheaper hosts (ics, sidearm, etc) that we probably could afford with a better product than the status quo, but i guess that's money we save that can go to other and more important expenditures.
I'm just hoping that this isnt the official FAMU athletics site, and if it, i hope that some major improvements are made very soon. i admonish the booster org to employ the services of our talented students. i'm more than confident that they can get the job done. GO RATTLERS!!!!
correction: why pay tens of thousands of dollars to someone else for something that we can darn well do ourselves and probably better?!?
ReplyDeleteI believe the site will grow as the department and its administration find the direction for it. I believe it is a start in a fiscally responsible direction considering the enormous deficit left by Townsend.
ReplyDeleteI applaud the university for searching within and elevating Mickey to Sr. Assoc. AD, because we need a true Rattler assisting in making some decisions on the Hill. Mickey has over 25 years in athletics and is in the Hall of Fame so give him a chance.
Again, I will ask the same questions I did on the last blog. How many of you are donating to athletics (I am $500 year) or have significantly in the past year. Help out the cause and maybe in a year when the department is fiscally solvent it can add all the bells and whistles you may like.
How many of you have experience in athletics as administrators (I do - 6 yrs as Sr. Assoc. AD at DI level) so do not condemn the decisions being made now to resurrect the program. Help and support.
Give to Rattler athletics in monetary and supportive ways and a few years from now we will all look back and praise as Joe Taylor leads us to a Black College Championship and a I-AA Championship.
Have faith Rattlers and be positive.
Positiviely speaking, the site can be immediately improved money or not, for FREE by students, alumni and supporters. Experience should tell you that if there is a tool (in this case media/internet or other) that you don't know much of anything about, defer and delegate the project to someone who does. You want support, open up the floor-engage your target audience to offer resources and suggestions and allow people to give back through their talents. Maybe/Obviously a competition to design the site should have and still can happen. We are also looking for creativity. And personally, as a Rattler I have been taught to find solutions for problems by eliminating the plague of CAN'T. We think and say it too much, especially when the money issue comes up. I can give money and I also can give more through talent and know how. The site is awful and not worthy of FAMU's name, unfortunately. Communication!!! Maybe this is a NEW job/identity for RattlerLink! Theres more where that came from.
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