new utsports.com website: WTH?

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Oh good, another "responsive design" website where the site has to work as well on a phone as it does on a desktop computer, so everything's got tons of empty space around it to be "safe" when sized down and interactive elements are gigantic so you can paw at the right thing with your finger to navigate from your phone.

I swear, if the geniuses who espouse this sort of design would just go back and watch Steve Jobs showing off the original iPhone in 2007 - and watch how excited he was to show that the iPhone's Safari browser let you use your thumb to navigate desktop sites almost as efficiently as you could with a mouse - maybe they'd realize dumbing the entire internet experience to the lowest common interface denominator is utterly backward. It was exciting because you could browse rich, complex site pages with little-to-no difficulty. And for a time there, websites didn't try to cater to phone users above all else. But no. No. Gotta be safe for phones. Gotta be safe for tiny little screens. Bleah.
 
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Voltopia said:
Oh good, another "responsive design" website where the site has to work as well on a phone as it does on a desktop computer, so everything's got tons of empty space around it to be "safe" when sized down and interactive elements are gigantic so you can paw at the right thing with your finger to navigate from your phone.

I swear, if the geniuses who espouse this sort of design would just go back and watch Steve Jobs showing off the original iPhone in 2007 - and watch how excited he was to show that the iPhone's Safari browser let you use your thumb to navigate desktop sites almost as efficiently as you could with a mouse - maybe they'd realize dumbing the entire internet experience to the lowest common interface denominator is utterly backward. It was exciting because you could browse rich, complex site pages with little-to-no difficulty. And for a time there, websites didn't try to cater to phone users above all else. But no. No. Gotta be safe for phones. Gotta be safe for tiny little screens. Bleah.
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Wow. Tell us how you really feel
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
Wow. Tell us how you really feel
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Well it's Tennessee's website so it's automatically the best in college football, but on a scale of 1 (anything Alabama) to 10 (seeing David Leaverton drop Peter Warrick) I'd give it a 6 (beating Georgia when both teams are unranked).
 
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Voltopia said:
Oh good, another "responsive design" website where the site has to work as well on a phone as it does on a desktop computer, so everything's got tons of empty space around it to be "safe" when sized down and interactive elements are gigantic so you can paw at the right thing with your finger to navigate from your phone.

I swear, if the geniuses who espouse this sort of design would just go back and watch Steve Jobs showing off the original iPhone in 2007 - and watch how excited he was to show that the iPhone's Safari browser let you use your thumb to navigate desktop sites almost as efficiently as you could with a mouse - maybe they'd realize dumbing the entire internet experience to the lowest common interface denominator is utterly backward. It was exciting because you could browse rich, complex site pages with little-to-no difficulty. And for a time there, websites didn't try to cater to phone users above all else. But no. No. Gotta be safe for phones. Gotta be safe for tiny little screens. Bleah.
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LOL - most access these days is from something other than a desktop.
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Man, was looking at the records from the early 2000's. 10 win seasons, 1 loss SEC records, SECCG appearances, miss those times.

Regarding the website, not really a fan of the layout. I prefer something simpler and organized.
 
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With Currie's statement, I think it is very clear that CBJ's seat is no where near Hot. This will greatly benefit the the pr9gram, especially recruiting. I see progress continuing to be made is the strength of all sports program under Currie. Looks like happy days will be back at Tennessee in the future.
 
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The site looks pretty spectacular on desktop. Not sure what all the negative comments are about, unless they are from people who don't appreciate modern design. It's very clean, visual, and easy to navigate. Excellent UX.
 
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VOLywood said:
The site looks pretty spectacular on desktop. Not sure what all the negative comments are about, unless they are from people who don't appreciate modern design. It's very clean, visual, and easy to navigate. Excellent UX.
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Different folks are likely seeing different things depending on the device, ad blocker & browser used. It looks decent on my laptop using Firefox and w/ uBlock Origin disabled, but it's spartan, link-less and basically unnavigable w/ uBlock running.

Modern design is fine & well as long as usability & functionality across all platforms are taken into account.
 
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Voltopia said:
Oh good, another "responsive design" website where the site has to work as well on a phone as it does on a desktop computer, so everything's got tons of empty space around it to be "safe" when sized down and interactive elements are gigantic so you can paw at the right thing with your finger to navigate from your phone.

I swear, if the geniuses who espouse this sort of design would just go back and watch Steve Jobs showing off the original iPhone in 2007 - and watch how excited he was to show that the iPhone's Safari browser let you use your thumb to navigate desktop sites almost as efficiently as you could with a mouse - maybe they'd realize dumbing the entire internet experience to the lowest common interface denominator is utterly backward. It was exciting because you could browse rich, complex site pages with little-to-no difficulty. And for a time there, websites didn't try to cater to phone users above all else. But no. No. Gotta be safe for phones. Gotta be safe for tiny little screens. Bleah.
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I'm with you. Not very appealing to me. What web designers are doing is creating an almost "linkless" front page for those smaller devices that in essence make it much harder to find information. I love websites that have less graphic content on the front page with more links to more things deeper in the website. To me, that makes it much easier to find things. In other words, fewer links on the front with much more general categorization making the information harder to find because it has to fit in a broader category to create fewer links on the front. A small portable device is great for what it is but if I want to start looking at details and spend time on something, I'm NOT going to do it on my iphone. I go to my PC so I have a "larger field" to play on so to speak. If I want to look up Todd Helton's college statistics, I do it on my PC, not my iphone. If I want to know what time kickoff is for Tennessee vs. Georgia Tech while I'm away from home, I use my iphone.
 
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As a working adult (for many years) I use a desktop 80% of the time each day and a mobile device the balance thereof.

I'm never impressed with a "one size fits all" approach to anything, because it doesn't.
 
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kamoshika said:
Different folks are likely seeing different things depending on the device, ad blocker & browser used. It looks decent on my laptop using Firefox and w/ uBlock Origin disabled, but it's spartan, link-less and basically unnavigable w/ uBlock running.

Modern design is fine & well as long as usability & functionality across all platforms are taken into account.
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I think the usability is what makes it stand out. I'm using Chrome on desktop with no adblocker plugins. The menu navigation has links to all the content you need to drill down to.
 
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