Anonymous
Years ago
Basketball Australia has just revamped their website. Looks great in my opinion, easy to navigate through as well.
Thoughts?
Gordon Liddy
Years ago
It take long time load. It start, it stall, it stall, it stall, it load. Maybe my internet? Maybe website slow? Who know?
Nice work, that should tide BA over for marketing effort for the next 10 years..
First up, looks flashy and nice overall, but I must say I don't get the point of the high points per game and other pointless stats in the Nation's Leaders!?
Wow! How good are those map features! I haven't seen anything like it before and I really like how they brought the Rollers and Gliders to the fore as well. They've been buried in obscurity for far too long.
Like Anon says, I think that Nations Leaders section is going to be a bit of a coach killer (particularly since it only tracks scoring) but if it actually does feed off statistics from any local association (which it looks like it does) it's a HUGE step forward in engaging with the average punter.
Well done to BA. I've criticised them in the past for what I've perceived to be short-fallings, but this is so far above and beyond what I would have expected had you told me it was a BA product.
Keep it up.
PlaymakerMo
Years ago
Not loving the new layout, but at least everything should be up to date which is a big positive.
natwhereyouat
Years ago
Prefer this layout than the old one. It's a little slower to load but otherwise I like it!
Does anyone know if states are going to follow and upgrade their websites as well?
^ Some might but I doubt it.
Looks good refreshing and much more interactive. will be slow to start as its new its not cached well but that will change quick it will pick up.
I hope they keep up to date and make better use of RSS than they have in the past.
LC
Years ago
Love the clean new design. Kudos on that. Also love the map tracking the Boomers across the globe. A for initiative!
Coeezy
Years ago
Excessive imaging is causing it to lag when I need to scroll up and down, but it's a nice design.
Jake
Years ago
Brilliant site, basketball in Australia is getting bigger, we're getting there
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Years ago
Coeezy that is the way to present now - more images less writing clutter. We were taught that by a benchmarker from Canberra 3-4 years ago as latest presentation / marketing techniques
Pitty those people still on slow or medium band width though! Your internet needs to be on a cable speed or ADSL2+ or higher to get it to load and work smoothly.
KET
Years ago
Oh god, it's like Sportal's website. Slow to load, the font is terrible but at least it looks reasonable
Wabbit
Years ago
Nice implementation of a wordpress site, will be interesting to see if the states use it too. I don't mind the backend interface of wordpress, I have no idea what the backend used to be like to use though
One day later.
I will pretty much always hold a grudge against BA for what they allowed to happen to my Blaze. I hope they realise that what I'm about to say changes nothing of that.
But after looking across the new website against most every other country's basketball website (that Google could translate) they pretty well hit a home run with this. It's even better than the USA Basketball website. I can honestly say that I thought we'd never do anything in basketball better than them. A pretty good upgrade just in time for the World Cup.
And on that note, I'd appreciate it if BA undid its dirty work and give me my NBL team back, demerged and all.
- Brock
Meh I'm a huge basketball fan but rarely have any reason to go on the BA site. Hope NBL launch a new design like this one or way better.
Wildcat Fan
Years ago
I like it. Looks very nice and I like the bold use of colour combinations and fonts. As long as the content is up to date, then its all good.
However I'm really only a fan of the NBL and NBA so therefore BA only really interests me when its Olympic or World Championship time, so there's generally not much reason for me to venture to this website. So I too hope that the NBL website takes on a bold professional revamp like this one. That will impress me!
Good to see SportingPulse stuffing up again. They have the 'top season scorers' for the nation, yet in the competition I play in, there are 5 or 6 players who have scored more than the number 1 on BA's website.
And before someone says that they may not be linked, a player from the same comp is in the top 5 in one of the other two lists..
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