New Website Design for NHRA

[FC Girl]

All I need is the registration and occasionally results (When DRC is slow). The rest, too cluttery and disorganized in my opinion. If that makes em happy, then all the power to em.

 

[vegasnitro]

Website is OK for me on XP/Firefox.

The old website had gotten stale. New Season, New Series Sponsor ... why not launch a new site to mark the occasion? Everybody that hopes to maintain any relevance on the web needs to keep movin' forward ... ESPN just redid their site for instance, think they are hurting for hits? And no sense in launching it weeks before the season starts ... more bang for you buck now when people are paying attention ...

 

[jimbo]

After a few misstarts yesterday, even going back to the old NHRA page and the new one a few times, I have no problems with my Mac and Safari. Have'nt tried the audiocast yet but I 'm sure I will this weekend.
On the subject of why did they change, I think as was mentioned above you have to refresh your ideas and content to stay with the times. Also I myself am just getting tired of all the NHRA bashing that goes on. No I'm not a racer, but have followed and been into drag racing for 40 years and yes sometimes I wish for the "old days". favorite times were the '70s. I will be the first to admit I am adverse to change in anything but today is today and sometimes you do what you have to do to stay current. Does NHRA do things right all the times? NO. But give them credit for at least trying to keep it fresh and exciting! Deal with it!

 

[burnie]

The live timing looks cool when they ever get it up and going.
But I think they missed the local weather link?
It made it easy to see what is going on during time like now.

 

[Johnny Mopar]

The live timing looks cool when they ever get it up and going.
But I think they missed the local weather link?
It made it easy to see what is going on during time like now.

I couldn't find the local weather link either. It's the navigation that makes these changes such an inconvenience. Visitors to a site shouldn't be inconvenienced...the site advertisers wouldn't want to know that the natives don't like it and aren't using it like they used to.

A site refresh would have been fine. A site rebuild wasn't called for. The new site reminds me of nascar.com...which is lousy after the last rebuild.

 

[n/a]

I won't complain. It has a better look. May be a bit slower than the old version but then all upgrades seem to. There's just more to load. But here's what I am curious about. I cannot find the link for "Local Weather" in the new version. Anyone know where to look for it?

 

[mike]

I read somewhere that an estimated 10-15% of American households still rely on dial-up modems. The new site is so data heavy those households can be effectively eliminated as visitors. Is losing 10-15% of your potential market audience worth the extra splash of bandwidth-hogging multi-media? Do people visit NHRA.com primarily to get information quickly and efficiently or to be entertained?

 

[Mooseman]

I read somewhere that an estimated 10-15% of American households still rely on dial-up modems. The new site is so data heavy those households can be effectively eliminated as visitors. Is losing 10-15% of your potential market audience worth the extra splash of bandwidth-hogging multi-media? Do people visit NHRA.com primarily to get information quickly and efficiently or to be entertained?

Thats happening all over the internet , unfortunatly the internet is too big and too full of information now that is has surpased dial up internet .

 

[clwill]

It's nice, but terribly slow. It takes 15-30 seconds to load on my 6mb cable line, slow as heck here in the hotel. The site has 158 images on the front page for gosh sakes...

And clearly no one even bothered to look at it on a mobile device -- the top two pagefuls are nothing but black. Navigation is terrible on a mobile device. What do they think people are doing during the rain delays

Ahh, well. Two steps forward...

 

[d'kid]

okay, check this out.
Yesterday, when I got home and was slapped in the face by the new web page, we ran it on k'dub's machine, which is the LAN server for home network while upgrading my firefox to even run the audiocast and stop getting errors on the page... we opened the audio cast on his machine, which is 12 feet from mine.

When mine was set up, fire the cast on it and ended up lagging d'kub's machine by almost 17 seconds....

ideas?????

d'kid

 

[vegasnitro]

okay, check this out.
Yesterday, when I got home and was slapped in the face by the new web page, we ran it on k'dub's machine, which is the LAN server for home network while upgrading my firefox to even run the audiocast and stop getting errors on the page... we opened the audio cast on his machine, which is 12 feet from mine.

When mine was set up, fire the cast on it and ended up lagging d'kub's machine by almost 17 seconds....

ideas?????

d'kid

When you say server ... does it acts as a proxy? In other words, does that machine connect directly to your internet connection then dish out IPs and handle the internet connection for the rest of the machines on your network? If it does then the lag is VERY easy to explain. (caching/processor related ... this is an archaic setup and I hope this is not how it is setup)

If you guys just share files on that machine, and everyone has equal access to the internet connection via a hub/switch/router ... then it could be 3 things. 1. NHRA.com saw 2 connecctions from your 1 IP and took it a while to resolve both connections. 2. Bandwidth issues with your provider. 3. Were both connections using the same username/password? If they were ... I am surprised NHRA.com allowed both connections ...

 

[Gambrinus]

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[Al smith]

NHRA site? I give it a bacon
Bacolicio.us ~Mmmm, Bacon~

 

[yoda]

Fires right up on IE.. No real browsing issues that a page refresh doesn't fix.. Everything reads clearly... If Karl is correct about this design being geared twords the cotton-candy, rest-of-the-population set, it absolutly is going the right direction with the dark homepage... Of course us 5-percenters (or whatever that percentage we over here are based on somebody's calculations...) are gonna hate it

 

[Mooseman]

Are all the archived stuff from the old site going to be included in the new site?

 

[Super Mod]

Works well on FF and IE. I think Fios or cable is a must for this site to load.

 

[None]

I like it. Running a Toshiba laptop I.E./ AOL/ AT&T air card. The NHRA website is fast and easy to use. Big improvement.

 

[Al smith]

BAHAHAHAHAHA

Their site just crashed

sorry, an error has occurred on the page you are trying to access.

it is possible that the page has been moved, or you typed the address incorrectly. please click the link below to go to the Americaneagle.com home page.

please click the link below to go to the home page.

origin-www.nhra.com

Nice goin!! And when you click on the link they even screwed up the "origin" url

http://origin-www.nhra.com/


Morons

 

[Don]

As others have said, very, very, very slow. After 2 minutes for the result page to load (it never did), I gave up..

Gee, I long for the days of Wally, Gibbs, Olsen and Buster running the show

 

[Hookandladder]

Slow due to overwhelming amount of images and I have a fast system and DSL.

Site Crashed twice today.

So many 404's I got fed up.


Verdict- pretty much the way NHRA has been going. AND...we still have to listen to Paul Page!!!!!

Why couldn't they have just upgraded the old site.