Changes to the BBC Sport website

On a slightly technical note is there any reason why the URLs are https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/ instead of just https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/sport/ which looks nicer. I'm sure when it was briefly on the beta sub-domain it was possible to remove the '0' and still see the same page.

When you redesigned the BBC news site a year or two ago (?), you said that video content would eventually be updated so it was viewable on smart phones, specifically the iPhone. Now that has been done for the news site, are you planning to do the same for the new BBC Sports site as well? That would be great if you do.

New design looks good!

Like it, fresh and smooth to look around.

Thanks alot for the updates.. the new page oozes class. However, there is too much yellow on the page, and dashes near the league table positions make the table more congested..

To quote coldplay 'it's all yellow'. Too much yellow!

Wait a minute...I'm just going to get my sunglasses.....Am I the only one who finds this website awful?

Far too much garish yellow, it's too hard on the eyes. I expect that every new website takes some getting used to, but this seems totally unorganised and has far too much information crammed into it. At least if each user could customise what they wanted to see, would provide an improvement.

Can I revert back to the elegant version used previously?

Test batting averages on the cricket site refer to which series? KP is at the top, averaging over 100 in four tests. Does notsay where these stats come from.

Far too much yellow.

The new website is hideous; clunky interface, terrible colour-scheme, much too difficult to find what you're looking for. It was nice having everything on the menu to the left; now if I want to look at anything that isn't football, I have to spend ages hunting it down.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/averages/default.stm

Far too much yellow, looks cheap and nasty. Mind you I don't think it will matter what we think you just do what you want anyway, just like you did with the home page.

URGH! The yellow is too much.
Seriously - will have to stop using this site if all this yellow remains. Awful!
It's so bad I haven't explored anything - had to leave in a hurry for the sake of my eyes. :(

Any reason why on the HOME page the headlines are pushed down below the video links whilst on almost every top-line sports pages the headlines are in that second column at the top?

First time I looked at the new page my instinctive reaction was 'where are the stories'? i.e. the headlines. Pulling them to the top of the page and increasing consistency would help.

Secondly, I hope that today is an aberration. When going to the homepage I thought I had mis clicked and selected football.

Found a few bugs this morning - have started tweeting them out to Stuart Rowson.

Looks good - but what's being done to make all the flash content available on Apple devices?

Wow! That certainly woke me up this morning.
So the web page steam roller trundels on...and yet again you'd have been better getting the web designers guide dog do the work!
Poorly conceived, badly laid out and horribly coloured.
New site looks like a poor quality Daily Mail/MSN knock-off.
I'm not 12 and doubt most of your diminishing viewers are either!

I believe there is a fair amount of yellow to help with visual impaired people. Overall, great fresh look, still room for improvement so keep it up. Thumbs up!

All I can say is "HORRID" what's with all the bright yellow, fix the Rugby League page as some of the team and sponsor information is incorrect. Also you should call it BBC Football not BBC Sport given the whole main page content. Lets hope the BBC News site doesn't go down this road as it looks very unprofessional. Very Disappointing....

It is the content that counts and how easy it is to find that matters, not how it looks as far as I am concerned and in that sense ( and admittedly at first look ) the new site fails - mainly because the listing of sports down the left hand side has gone.
Why bother employing people ( paid for out of the Television Tax) to waste time changing something that was fine to start with?

Great Sport website, pity BBC TV has no live sport other than darts and snooker. All the cricket, tennis football seems to have been lost. Still - there are plenty of cookery competitions to watch.

If this site is what you have deduced from user feedback then I'm really shocked. It's way too busy and not very easy on the eyes. Just like other comments too much yellow. I'm all for change, but only if it improves on the old site and delivers more features. I Think you've got this one wrong BBC.

Everything Kihsotas said and more:
Hideous; clunky interface, terrible bright yellow colour-scheme, stuff plonked all over the place, much too difficult to find what you're looking for. The Home page is 90% football. Large fonts for headlines sometimes overlaying the images. Text doesn't flow - it moves forwards and backwards across the screen to accommodate images and comments. Massive image of GOSSIP on the home page only takes you to football gossip. Pointless map of the UK you can't click on. Many more comments too numerous to mention. All in all an absolute mess. Looks like a child has designed it for an o-level project.

The re-design is like an explosion in a web design shop. There's far too much happening on each page. Horrible.

Looks like the page hasn't loaded properly and is using an emergency font! Too much yellow, can't see the headlines first, can't see a menu of sport anymore (was easily accessed down the left). Overall very poor. Looks like it's been copied off the red tops newspapers' websites, which are horrible too. I'm less likely to go to this site now. Bye

Really liking the new sport pages, not sure about the yellow :) odd colour to use.
Blue live labelling is a great idea.
What I do like is all the info on the front page at a glance.
Loads of interactive live coverage.
Design Looks good on the ipad, but youve got flash video, please get up to date!

Glad you have not gone down the carosel route that the dreadful homepage and olympic site has.

Overall, keep up the great work you do at BBC sport.

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What has happened to the sports web site? This is not a complaint because I do not like change because change is part of life and it helps us develop but I am afraid this is an own goal. Aesthetically its a mess and is now not comfortable to use or view. It is a poor man's Talk Sport site and I am afraid I will no longer be visiting the sports site not because you have changed but its not comfortable any more. It really is a mess unless its not finished yet! Anyway so long.

Why, why, why does the BBC persist in believing that Sport = Football?

As of this morning the only sports news on the main BBC home page is football (4 stories under the heading Sport and 3 under the heading Football) and unless you scroll down on the Sport page there is just one none-footbal story hidden away.

The new pages are far too cluttered - some of us can read and don't necessarily want endless pictures filling the screen. We want to quickly see what's going on and then choose the stories to read in depth.

As a result of these changes I am using the BBC website less and less and turning to other sites when it used to be my first port of call.

Garish - Muddled - results all over the place - you had a brilliant site running for the last two years - now you have a muddled, jumble of information highlighted by the brightest colour scheme which is, in truth, hurtful to the eye. The "new" site is totally painful both in appearance and content!

Must admit I'm not a fan of the new layout. I like the 'other sports' dropdown - it feels more inclusive of the previously "other" sports (they at least have quick access now). The layout itself feels cluttered and unorganised though - the impression is that everything's just been shoved in where there's room. Got to admit I'm not a fan of the colour scheme either!

Have to agree with #26 too, even as a football fan. I realise football is the most popular sport in the country, but when the top half of the front page is basically dedicated to football and "Look at our new site!" while everything else is tucked away further down, it does feel very lopsided. At least in the previous layout, the quick links at the left offset any overwhelmingly football-oriented days.

The YELLOW is far too bright and uncomfortable on the eyes please tone it down a lot or make it cream or a softer pastel shade

One point, Football, Football, Football, how do I get rid of it? Despite the incessant coverage of this sport I do not personally know a single person who has actually been to a football match. Yes, lot's of people talk about it like they're experts, despite never having played it since they were at school, or been to a live match.

I do not believe that football is as popular as is perceived by the BBC, and I for one don't want it on any of my sport pages never mind the Sports Home Page, please provide a means to personalise the site and let me get rid of it.

What have you done with the BBC sports website ?
I know the BBC has always had a strong football bias, but as I open up the new front page of the new site I see on my screen 24 articles associated with Football, 2 for rugby union 1 for tennis and a tiny one for horse racing!
Then in your video explaining how good the new site is, you state that it is the best site for all sports.
Why not just rename it the BBC football site.
It was so much better before, so why on earth did you have to change it?
Also agree, too much yellow.
If it ain’t broken don’t fix it!

I'm not normally one to comment on these sites, but, BBC you are driving me to Sky/Sky Sports! The BBC News new site and BBC Sport sites are aesthetically poor, do not give a good user experience, poorly laid out - I could go on. I'm afraid there is nothing positive about them. If it ain't broke.....

PLEASE can we have the old format back or at least the option to display in the old format, I’ve only looked at a few pages and I’ve already had enough. It's harsh on the eyes, giving it a cheap and nasty feel. I find it more untidy and cluttered. It’s harder to find the articles that may be of interest. The reordering of the way the football results/fixtures are being display I find particularly annoying. If it's going to stay like this then I’m going to start using another site.

So much better
smooth
easier access, easy to spot something, bolder type,

Sure there will be tweaks to be made but this is GOOD

HB

I've had a brief look but it appears that some of the Non-League football sections (namely Conference North and South) have not been transferred. Where am I going to get my Non-League fix now?

Sorry, but this looks really cheap and nasty. The colours and 'layout' would be more suited to 'Hello' than sport. Kinda looks like you have thrown a bunch of stories on a page and just left them where they landed.

There used to be a link under the list of sports to the Sports TV/Radio Schedule.

Is that still around because it was very useful?

Thank you.

Congratulations on destroying your previously fantastic website which was most elegant and practical in terms of ease of navigation. I'm sure I will get used to it in time but what was the point? And more to the point, how much did it cost? What an utterly pointless pursuit. If something isn't broken then don't try to fix it.

Sorry BBC but this site is rubbish I used BBC cause Sky changed theirs now you have done it back to Sky me thinks, the Yellow is to overpowering and takes over why change something that worked all for a two week event and at the licence payers cost

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. I'll have to find a new website for my sports news and results. I've already had to abandon the BBC news site when that had its barmy update and now the sports pages have gone mad. Why do the BBC persist in ruining perfectly good designs and replacing them with extremely poor ones. The new site is very ugly, harder to navigate and presents information in a way which is far less clear than before.

I hate to be one of those people who always moans about change; but in this case you really do appear to have made navigating the sport section more difficult.

For instance: When I want to go to the Championship homepage, I'll need to select 'Football', then click 'Leagues and Competitions', and the click 'Championship'. An extra click when compared to the previous site layout, and when you're fighting to be the premier sports news website, one more click can make all the difference. Compare it to Sky Sports' site, where you only have to move your mouse button over 'Football' on their toolbar, and you get all the options available after two clicks on your site.

Another change which makes little sense to me is the drop-down menu for looking at fixtures taking place today. Previously, once you selected your desired option to look at, the fixtures updated automatically - now you're required to click 'update'. I really can't see the point of this, it's far less convenient and seems like a backwards step.

Looking at the aesthetics of the page, the yellow is something I'll probably get used to, but the amount of white space is another thing altogether. It gives the impression that you've just slapped a load of content onto a page, with nothing having a set location. It's no coincidence that the section headlines 'Latest Football' and 'Other Sports' look much more like they have their own place than the 'Comment & Analysis' section.

And on a final note, I agree with all the posters who mourn the loss of the list of sports down the left hand side of the page, can't understand why something so perfect would be changed.

Its too 'busy' and its too yellow.

Hi Ben
I seem to be in a minority who like the refreshed site graphically.

However I am disappointed that you have chosen to put cycling in 'Other'.

Can you explain your rationale for promoting minority sports like tennis, rugby union and cricket over mass participation sports like cycling?

Here is a link to Sport Englands survey on sport participation levels https://www.sportengland.org/research/active_people_survey/idoc.ashx?docid=f9cee0c6-53a4-49df-b66f-30fff497894f&version=2

Were also 'quite good' at cycling with lots of world champions and the current SPOTY is a cyclist.

Funny then that it is in 'Other' - care to elaborate?

It's always difficult to adapt to new changes and the rationale for the changes makes sense to me.

However, the accompanying pictures in some of the sports news stories are far too big and replace text to a worrying amount - I come to the BBC Sports website for information and analysis, not to be faced with such large pictures - users should not have to scroll down to read the first paragraph of a story - that is ridiculous.

My other criticism follows what many others are complaining about - the YELLOW! You don't mention this in the explanation above. Why so much yellow and why does it have to be so bright? It's really offputting, can it not be toned down at least?

new site is very eye catching, well done the bbc, all you have to do now is not be bias against everton thank you

have to agree with the majority of the other posts, the new layout just doesn't work. the previous layout was user-friendly, simple to navigate and well laid out. the new one looks like the stories have been thrown at the page in a slapdash attempt to get as much on with scant regard for accessibility. The colour is just too harsh, the site as a whole is now in no way easy on the eye and just puts me off wanting to explore further. I may also find myself defecting to skysports, which is a real shame as i find the BBCs content is, on the whole, very good.
On a personal note, am i the only person who can't understand the BBCs obsession with Twitter? If i want to know what some journalist has "tweeted" i will sign up to that service. Additionally, these tweets serve little purpose and do not provide any information that hasnt generally already been reported on the site.

I really like the new design. This could become a reference for others.

Do you have any plans to introduce personalisation? I don't need formula 1, golf or tennis in the menu bar, but I'd like to see my favorite sport (hockey) there. And I'd like to be able to get directly to my favorite football team.

Steve

Bad layout and too much Yellow. Move the thin centre column asap, its a distraction.

A gold medal for content. A lemon for design.

Have seen more logic in a dogs breakfast. 4 different colours in headlines, blue and black text, sometimes blue heading black text sometimes vice versa.

Seems to me too much 'social network' influence in the design, we want easily accessed, orderly presented sports news, results, analysis.

The previous version was much better. This just looks jumbled. Why mess with a winning formula? Make improvements but don't jump backwards. Headlines need to be at the top! A five-year-old kid knows that!

Tone down the yellow, or at least give the user an option to have a toned down version.

Should be renamed "The BBC Football (with a few other sports thrown in, if you look hard enough) Website". I stopped listening to 5 Live because it's all football, football, football.

The only redeeming feature of the BBC at this time of year is that we don't have to pay Sky to watch the 6Nations.

I'm off to buy a black and white screen to be able to view this site.

What's the point of that image of the UK on the football page? If it's there at least make it interactive. Unnecessary bandwidth taken up on a website that is expecting a MASSIVE surge in traffic in the coming months.
And why is the main headlines for the Welsh football subsection from the English league teams? They get covered enough on the PL and FL pages, still have the articles on the Welsh page but the featured headlines should involve the likes of Welshpool Town and Bangor City etc., the Welsh league teams plus the national team.

Other than that, I don't like radical changes but I'll prolly get used to it over time so meh.

Website looks good. Very clean and fresh. However disappointed that I am still unable to access video content using the iPad. I thought with this revamp that the sport website would be embracing what has already happened on the news website where video can be accessed without flash. Hope this will happen soon.

I just opened the "Sportsday Live" page and may have got myself fired!
Thanks for the automatically opening audio/video.

I agree with most others regarding the poor layout of the main page and what's with the yellow?

Dreadful yellow nastiness. Confusing layout with waaaaay too much information crammed on to it. What a waste of time money and effort. Why can't you just learn to leave things be? Did I mention the DREADFUL YELLOW COLOUR?

Hopefully I'll get used to it, but when I tried to access my BBC bookmarks on my Blackberry, initially, it came up with a serious error message that said my IP address was wrong or the website was wrong, which made me think I had some kind of virus on my phone.

So after getting my laptop out and going to the sport....Yellow? Also it seems to have too much white, which seems a strange thing to say.

Also, give the Cycling some prominence, I've been a cycling fan for years and have been to watch at Alpe D'Huez several times, so I'm used to it not getting many headlines, but Mark Cavendish has just won SPOTY, the sport is growing and is at an all time high, we are guaranteed cycling medals in the Olympics once again, yet the cycling has to be found and it's still the old style!

What an awful design - bright yellow, huge fonts, cluttered layout - what were your designers thinking about?! Compare it with the elegance and best-in-class design of the BBC news page (or indeed the old sports page)... this is such a backwards step. And as someone who looks at the BBC football (not sports) site every single day, I don't want the links at the top to other sports as I will never use them and they take up space. The links I do need are the ones to the various competitions - Premier League, Championship, etc. These used to be one click away, now they are two clicks... did anyone even do any user testing of this before launch?
Utterly dreadful... and such a crying shame that a previously excellent site has been ruined in this way.

Worst re-design ever...

Agree with comments about too much yellow, also what has happened to tables of each clubs scorers and appearances? seems to have disappeared.

I use site similar to this that go towards web 3.0 so it will just take getting used to. There is maybe too much yellow but by far the biggest issue in no HTML5 audio and video players. I use and iPhone and iPad regularly to visit sites and to give the site a major overhaul and not include this is a massive oversite. The main site now has this so why not the Sport one?

I assume this site was produced by an amataur graphic designer... The layout and set up is dreadful,...confused, too busy, poorly deisgned and laid out....i cant even bring myself to comment on the colours!!!...all in all a far worse version of the new BBC home page which in itself is a poor version of the old set up which was clear and easy to read.....I hope lisence payers money wasnt wasted on this exercise

I just find it exhausting.
Along with so many other sites like Facebook, or your local supermarket every few months and other businesses that like to make wholescale changes..why is it that companies can't make small incremental changes and allow thier valuable users a transition from one world into another.
I took one look at this website and thought...oh no!
I just don't have the time, energy or inclination to have to go exploring all the way around a new site. I find it exhausting. Nothing's in the same place.
And yes...you may defend that you haven't made wholescale changes for a few years. But, every week some company does...and it becomes a real chore to find what you want, quickly (especially on the day after transfer deadline day).
I'll stick with Sky Sports for a while until I have the time, inclination and energy to find out where everything is on your site.
Making small adjustments at a time would be much more user-friendly.

Plus...the yellow is far too bright and sickly!

PS I just decided to have another look, but I need sunglasses to view it, on my smartphone a Blackberry it is truly awful.

I was going to change my BBC Weather bookmark as that changed prior to this, but I'm not impressed

I think the new design looks really good, well done!

Please, please stop ruining the BBC website - too much white, too many pictures, too wide, too many gimics, sport is too yellow. You have and are continuing to ruin the site. It must have cost a fortune to get the branding right and now you have thrown it away. foolish in the extreme.

I know you are going to ignore us because you are clever web designers, that is foolish too. Goodbye.

Good refresh inline with the BBC homepage with Great use of color. The only negative is the choice of blue for sportsday LIVE and breaking news. It just looks like the text has been selected on the computer and is ready for pasting.

We all knew this would happen and why. Ben has to put a brave face on it but after the news roll-out fiasco its not about being easy to navigate etc, as we all know.

Its so the international Edition has room for adverts.

So know it has happened and it's hideous. OK the Beeb needs the money, but currently the title font isn't even working properly. Looks like another fiasco then.

I think the launch of the BBC website as a whole has been poor and ill informed and the sports page is the final straw. Before I could customise what I wanted to view on my own home page, what news feeds and from what regions, localised weather, what sports, financial news etc. Now I have to look at what the BBC thinks I want to look at which quite frankly is miles off the mark. This probably won't get posted but I had to post my disappointment....it's time for a new website which is a shame as the BBC site used to be excellent.

Sorry guys, but you could have done so much better as it assaults the eyes.
There is no differentiation between sections (as it is all white background) and the central column is squeezed (leading to text wrapping - which is poor). Why do you need a seperate logo for 'Gossip' section when everywhere else has a consistent font structure.
The yellow and black scheme is not good - works for road signage and airports but not against a white back ground.
The other sports 'quick link' section is FEEBLE and is repeated down at the bottom left under the 'More from BBC Sport section'.
But apart from all of that it looks cheap and mediocre.

However it should only be a vehicle to the content and aslong as you haven't blown the busget on this and can keep the content standard up I shall turn down the brightness of my monitor and put up with it.

the colour is horrid, if such a bright colour is to be used then surely a softer backround is in order? its difficult to read an article without the eye being drawn, which is indeed maybe what you want but i would like to be able to read the first article to completion before being dragged to the next. navigational problems will no doubt be fine once i get used to it, would rather have a quick link to all sports as befor. Probably shoud have taken a look at sky sports site and used their roll over menus idea that works very well. hopefully this wont come out in the press that millions of pounds has been used to produce this!

@41: Surely it would be possible for the techies to set-up & use mod_rewrite to hide the '0' from the public, even if it's required internally. I assume one publishing system is on the news sub-domain, and the other is on the new /sport.

So Horrible, will be finding alternative websites to source my sports news... what was wrong with the initial simple design? done exactly what everyone needed clean simple and easy to find infomation. Now it looks like the designers who designed the london olympics logo got hold of it!

Like

As it stood table looks great. Like how it shows recent movement.

Aesthetically looks great. Love the yellow. Sportsday Live is looking great. Looking forward to live commentary tonight to see how that pans out. The match report headers are lovely.


Dislike

Within news articles, I don't like how quotes and videos are left aligned half integrated into the text copy. It creates a lot of dead space on the left. Would work better if the copy used the full width of that area within videos and quotes integrating within it as opposed to sticking out of it.

Not sure about how the content in a match report cuts into the main image of the article e.g. 'By Neil Johnson BBC Sport' on the Man Utd 2-0 Stoke match report. Saying this, it works well for main news headlines on BBC Football page.

The yellow header doesn't extend to full width of Mac 27" 2560x1440 resolution.

Can't easily find top scorers list. The top 3 snapshot of it should be further up the main BBC Football page. It's pushed far down, as an afterthought.

Any good reason why the BBC nav at the top inverts colour when you hover over? The underline on the options would still work on black.

'This story around the web' should be further down on the right hand side within match reports. Do these get used much? It's like you're pointing users to read the same story they're currently reading elsewhere.

Suggestions

Mobile support as soon as possible is a must for optimised viewing of content. As well as support for audio and video clips on iOS. If not, an BBC Sport app would do the trick in the meantime.

Would be nice to differentiate colour themes between different sports. Formula 1 is the only one that has a black theme at the moment. Either all different, or all the same, just consistent.

Would be excellent to really go to town on the league table and statistics. Similar to the Football Manager game series, where you could select things like 'Games without winning' 'Games won in a row' etc. I can see you've got last 10 games, but it's a bit limited (to last 10 games) and not as instantly informative as numerical values, more as a quick glance to get an idea of form.

More coverage of European leagues such as La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga. Interest in these leagues has increased through Twitter, broadcasting on Sky and with several ex-EPL players playing their trade in particularly La Liga. Would love to see more news and match reports from other leagues.

For club fixtures pages, could we add which channel a game will be broadcast on. Would be a nice touch.

Overall

Feels fresh and current, if not a little awkward and cramped in places but plenty of useful jquery functionality used effectively.

As you say, live events are when you gain the most traffic, so looking forward to first matches tonight on new system. If it's anything like Sportsday Live or even how you did live events during World Cup 2010, it'll be awesome. Hope you've got a dream of a CMS to use as well.

It is awful! Colour clash like an '80s Spectrum game, and a totally different format to the News page. Why? Is there no common design thread across the BBC website? For example, why would you have a different fonts, spacing and formatting for the Sections at the very top of the page on the Sport site compared to the News site? Why have the Headlines down the centre of the page? Weird

The News site looks cohesive and well organised, this looks like someone has thrown a load of news stories at the page.

I will give it more time, but so far it looks amateurish. Very poor

In reply to 44 - cycling is an "other sport" because it's categorised by spectator interest not participation interest. The Great British Public only cares about cycling during the Olympics and, to a much lesser extent, le Tour.

My only objection so far is to the "enhanced" fixtures pages in which each game takes up twice the space it needs to. I can only infer that it was designed to give additional prominence to stadiums' sponsors' names - there's no need for the name of the stadium to even be included. Everyone knows that ManU play at Old Trafford and Newcastle at St James' Park - of if they don't, it's easily searchable.

What a mess !

Terrible To Navigate, Badly Laid Out
Too Much Yellow On The Page (Strains The Eyes)
Homepage Mostly About Football Nothing Else

Another Waste Of Licence Payers Money Why Fix Something That Wasn't Broken
I Doubt The Survey Or Views Posted Here Will Do Any Good As The BBC Have Scant Disregard For The Licence Payers Views (We The BBC Are Right You Are Wrong)

The yellow is a bit much. Also Flash video isn't formatting correctly in Chrome on Windows Vista, see:

https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/16695868

Agree with a lot of people, it's hideous. And WHERE has "Europe" gone from the football pages? I'm sure the "Europe" section is more popular than the "African Football" section.

I have done the 'feedback' survey. Much or most of the comments made are pretty much on it. Like kid designers who found out how to do some things but never knew about 'users'. Any of the webpages should show as much of what is where as is feasible in the immediately viewed area, ie without scrolling. It is not viewed immediately then you don't know it is there! Please fix it all and don't keep thinking because you changed it must be good.

Are the BBC stupid? Most people view this site at work and watching videos at work is not an option, so why is video pushed to the front? Any space on the page used to promote a video clip is a waste of space to me; space that could be filled with useful content.
The new design has no class. It looks like Sky Sports painted their site a horrible yellow.
Change for change's sake - and not change for the better.

I really like the new look. I was happy with the old one but the improvements all seem worthwhile and I've been enjoying the new look league tables this morning!

This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/tables refers:
Your colour-coding for Win Lose and Draw is a complete failure for people who are colour-blind. Is this not covered by your responsibilities under the DDA?

A botched job I'm afraid. The homepage is woefully cluttered - it looks like somebody threw as much stuff at it as would fit, and then added more around the edges. What's wrong the BBC News format? Surely there should be consistency across the BBC sites?

But worst of all is the intrusion of quotes within articles, cutting across the left hand margin, meaning that the reader's eyes have to keep swerving to the right to stay within the column of text he or she is reading. It's tantamount to admitting that the readability of content wasn't a priority in the design process - the designer assumes that our attention span is limited to about 50 words of text, and then we don't mind being distracted by something else. Dreadful.

Agree with IainH, so much YELLOW!

I'm all in favour of giving interns experience during the Christmas holidays but should you have allowed them to design the template?

I don't know why you bother asking for our feedback when you just ignore us anyway. You did the same with the news page.

It looks hideous. It's not laconic, sophisticated or intuitive. You have just machine-gunned a paintcan above the canvas and hoped that a Turner would somehow result, and instead you've ended up with a toddler's painting.

Just taken another look you had the best football website by far, now you have the worst by far well done you guys must be proud of yourselves take a bow

This article should read -

Sports web pages to follow mistakes made on news area and homepage.

The left menu is ESSENTIAL and without it the sports page is much too hard to follow and find the stuff I want.
The idea that people will scroll on and on down the page is rediculous and discredited.
The idea that you cannot use the full width of the page suggests you need to get someone in who knows how to program web sites (I do ).

The changes to the News area were universally panned yet you still perpetuate the myth that is was tested on users and researched - on who? Not the general public that is for sure. Why won't you listen to the thousands who use the site? Such arrogance!

Sorry. I know it's a bit Boring old Fxxt of me but it's horrible!

Please, why, when a good percentage of your readers (young male) will have hangovers first thing on a morning do you assault them with violent yellow?

"Lesser" sports are sidelined even further by having to be found on a drag down menu, thus football assumes even more importance.

The football results and tables seem to have no sense or reason to them date wise. Premiership Tuesday followed by FA cup weekend followed by Championship Tuesday.

We will all, of course, adapt. We will, of course, use the site as, by and large it's content is still the best, even though it is now difficult to find the content. After all license payers have undoubtedly payed a fortune for this. Thankfully I haven't!

Meanwhile back to try and find out about the Hockey!

Why the pre-moderation? Worried are we? Is it for this blog only or for all blogs? One assumes that there will be sufficient moderators on duty when young McNulty pens his next blog criticising Man U/Man C/Arsenal/Spurs/Liverpool (delete as applicable) to cope with the flood of abuse. On a good note though it may, if the moderators are able to use common sense, mean that certain commentors are refused their daily fis of publicity. Hmmmmm.

Yellow!???! Please

Ugh - it's awful. You may have maximised the use of space but at the expense of squeezing information into every nook and cranny with no thought to its relative significance.

May be age Sixty plus but far too much yellow Difficult to read.

Yet another poorly conceived redesign by the BBC that now makes it harder to find the sport you're looking for. No doubt any criticisms will simply be ignored, just like they were when the news page was redesigned. If you’re going to supposedly update and improve something why make it worse?

Disappointed you have not took the opportunity to make the new look work with iPad and iPhone ie get the videos to work as you have started to on some news pages

The new look is all a bit of an assault on the eyes and the navigation is very confusing. Also is there any need to make the sport front page 95 percent about football? As much as I like football, is there any need to go all Sky Sports/The Sun about it? Please give everything else a chance.

And yes, too much yellow.

Just a thought: bees, wasps, radiation warnings, biohazard warnings, diagonally striped black/yellow signs - what do they have in common? Yes! They symbolise a warning or danger!

This comes from nature and is well-known.

Maybe that's the reason so many respondents dislike the new colour scheme at the top of the page?

www.football.co.uk looks like a far replacment for people not happy with the bright yellow site