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Title: New-look official Villa website
Post by: Tokyo Sexwhale on June 06, 2016, 06:37:57 PM
Still in development, but looks a lot better:

http://beta.avfc.co.uk/
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: mrfuse on June 06, 2016, 06:46:59 PM
feels a lot better so far.
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: Louzie0 on June 06, 2016, 06:50:21 PM
Yes! Into the 21st Century!
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: Risso on June 06, 2016, 06:54:07 PM
It's a bit cleaner, but still looks very similar to how it did before, ie poorly laid out.
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: kieron on June 06, 2016, 07:25:03 PM
I get the same feeling I did when it last changed: still not good enough.
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: Ron Manager on June 06, 2016, 07:50:51 PM
I do not see Kevin Macdonald listed. Has he gone? Cowans appears to have kept his job.
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: Clampy on June 06, 2016, 07:52:46 PM
I think it's absolutely fine.
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: Mortimer's Bear on June 07, 2016, 05:37:02 AM
Looks fine to me, I rarely go on there these days anyway.
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: VicMackey on June 07, 2016, 06:21:31 AM
Wait a minute - I thought THIS was the official site?!
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: pooligan on June 07, 2016, 06:36:26 AM
I wonder how much extra it will cost to use, after all they need to replace Jack
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: mattjpa on June 07, 2016, 09:08:55 AM
I like it. id love to know what more people think they can add/do
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: paul_e on June 07, 2016, 09:37:46 AM
If you separate out the design and content into different elements I'd say the design is now very good.  The quality of the content is questionable but lets see how things settle following the staffing changes.  What I'd like to see is a full highlights service and a lot more content about the players at all levels of the club.
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: DeKuip on June 07, 2016, 09:48:28 AM
It looks better, I'm all for clean design on websites. It does annoy me that they feel the need to remind us of the last result though, that's tow summers now where on of the first things you see on the Villa website is "Arsenal 4 Villa 0" - to make it worse the new design lists the last four results so now a bad one will linger for weeks during the season as well.
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: Duncan Shaw on June 07, 2016, 09:58:06 AM
I do not see Kevin Macdonald listed. Has he gone? Cowans appears to have kept his job.
Where are you seeing that I can't see Sid or Kmac....looking under club>whos who
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: in exile on June 07, 2016, 10:58:55 AM
I do not see Kevin Macdonald listed. Has he gone? Cowans appears to have kept his job.
Where are you seeing that I can't see Sid or Kmac....looking under club>whos who
I can't find Club Who's Who let alone McDonald or Cowans!
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: Diablo on June 07, 2016, 11:14:08 AM
It does annoy me that they feel the need to remind us of the last result though, that's tow summers now where on of the first things you see on the Villa website is "Arsenal 4 Villa 0" - to make it worse the new design lists the last four results so now a bad one will linger for weeks during the season as well.

New owners, new manager, new back room staff, new website - good!

Player profile Gabriel Agbonlahor Games 15 Goals 1 Assists 2 - not good!
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: Duncan Shaw on June 07, 2016, 11:27:24 AM
I do not see Kevin Macdonald listed. Has he gone? Cowans appears to have kept his job.
Where are you seeing that I can't see Sid or Kmac....looking under club>whos who
I can't find Club Who's Who let alone McDonald or Cowans!
It's under the More bit
More>Club>scroll down a bit and whos who on the rhs
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: in exile on June 07, 2016, 11:43:53 AM
I do not see Kevin Macdonald listed. Has he gone? Cowans appears to have kept his job.
Where are you seeing that I can't see Sid or Kmac....looking under club>whos who
I can't find Club Who's Who let alone McDonald or Cowans!
It's under the More bit
More>Club>scroll down a bit and whos who on the rhs
Thank you
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: LeeS on June 07, 2016, 12:17:48 PM
Clicking that link made me realise I barely ever go on the official site. I get all my Villa news right here. I've used it for tickets occasionally but, other than that, nada.
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: GordonCowansisthegreatest on June 07, 2016, 01:36:20 PM
I do not see Kevin Macdonald listed. Has he gone? Cowans appears to have kept his job.
Where are you seeing that I can't see Sid or Kmac....looking under club>whos who
I can't find Club Who's Who let alone McDonald or Cowans!
It's under the More bit
More>Club>scroll down a bit and whos who on the rhs
Thank you
Just had a look there myself! No sign of a head of recruitment, Has he gone then?
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: joe_c on July 24, 2016, 02:13:53 PM
The 404 page is quite good

(https://d16b4kgyytl7c7.cloudfront.net/~/media/AstonVilla/Errors/404-error.ashx?h=475&la=en&w=524&vs=1&d=20160627T153216Z&hash=9708D229366D7DBCD76B45995A06AB240F4AA268)
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: Toronto Villa on July 24, 2016, 05:42:58 PM
speaking of the website, apparently we are playing almost all of our games this season on a Friday
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: Nev on July 30, 2016, 11:21:41 AM
I rarely use the website but I have noticed a change in the tone of the Twitter feed.

It's feels more personable, not so cold and matter of fact and is certainly more (but not often) partisan.

They tweeted a reminder about the J6 closure earlier, with a fabulous picture of Villa Park from the Expressway.
Title: Re: New-look official Villa website
Post by: Nelly on July 30, 2016, 07:28:04 PM
I rarely use the website but I have noticed a change in the tone of the Twitter feed.

It's feels more personable, not so cold and matter of fact and is certainly more (but not often) partisan.

They tweeted a reminder about the J6 closure earlier, with a fabulous picture of Villa Park from the Expressway.

I noticed this too, it's a good change and seems to be more in tune so far. Some of the timing of tweets and posts from Villa's old social media, some of their interviews and blind-propaganda type posts were horrible to endure.
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