Zappa 0 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Every other time you go on to the official site to view an official Rangers news article from a NewsNow link or Twitter link the page doesn't load properly. I know it's not just me because I've tested it from multiple computers using various browsers and the site just doesn't seem to work properly half the time. Even if you go in through the front door so to speak by going to the home page at http://www.rangers.co.uk/ you get the same problems at times with some pages not loading right. As well as that, it's been almost a year since the new site went online and they still haven't fixed the official RSS news feed. The official RSS feed we get here on Gersnet in the "Rangers News Feeds" sub forum is giving us links to the new news articles, but the links take you to the old Rangers site. When Craig Whyte took over he immediately started cutting costs and I think he (or Ali Russell) dumped the old media company who were managing the website in favour of one called Perform Group who set up the new site. I'm presuming that they should be managing it too, but if it was being managed properly there wouldn't be any of these issues. Anyway, someone needs to get on the case and get the Rangers site working properly because it looks very unprofessional for a club of our stature to have a malfunctioning website. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skelf_KPL Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I have noticed myself , don't know if they changed to a cheaper server then its not been maintained after we went into admin, one thing for sure is its pretty gash just now 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangent60 0 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 (edited) Yes, I have also been noticing this a lot recently. Something needs done about that, as it is in Rangers' interests to improve the internet profile of the club. In particular, given that the guys who run and produce Rangers TV (and who provide the live broadcasts, the full-length interviews, the short film pieces and such) do very good work, it is non-sensical to have a main site "jumping off point" which frequently fails to load properly. The good work that has been done (and is being done) is being let down by this. Moreover, it is contractually unacceptable for Rangers to be paying a company to maintain a website that does not load properly. Another thing that should be done is to remove the double ad-banners at the top. At most (and if any), there should only be one corporate banner at the top (and not two, as there is now). Edited May 24, 2012 by tangent60 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CumbernauldGers 0 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Must agree i think the new website is rubbish, the old one was bad but i thought it was better than the new one. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangent60 0 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 (edited) Must agree i think the new website is rubbish, the old one was bad but i thought it was better than the new one. Personally, I don't think the current site is rubbish -- in my view, it just needs some adjustments. The worst official site I remember was the site rolled-out under SDM's closing tenure. Since then, incremental improvements have clearly been made with each redesign. The current problems would not take a lot of work to fix in my opinion. Edited May 23, 2012 by tangent60 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted May 23, 2012 Author Share Posted May 23, 2012 Yes, I have also been noticing this a lot recently. Something needs done about that, as it is in Rangers' interests to improve the internet profile of the club. In particular, given that the guys who run and produce Rangers TV (and who provide the live broadcasts, the full-length interviews, the short film pieces and such) do very good work, it is non-sensical to have a main site "jumping off point" which frequently fails to load properly. The good work that has been done (and is being done) is being let down by this. Another thing that should be done is to remove the double ad-banners at the top. At most (and if any), there should only be one corporate banner at the top (and not two, as there is now). The strange thing is David, that the media group who set up the new site (and presumably get paid to manage it) are a large respectable company by the looks of things. At the very bottom of the Rangers site you'll see "POWERED BY PERFORM", which links you to this company - http://www.performgroup.co.uk/FootballCaseStudies ... That page alone shows that they deal with a vast number of football clubs. They hadn't sorted out the problems with the Rangers site before we went into administration, so it's not just the case that they've stopped work on it because of that. I think one or two of the media guys you mention who are working at the club and doing a great job only to be let down by the website should be finding out what's going on and maybe even contacting Perform Group directly: Perform Head Office PERFORM Group PLC Sussex House Plane Tree Crescent Feltham, TW13 7HE, UK Company Number: 6324278 Tel: +44 (0)20 3372 0600 info@performgroup.com Twitter: @performgroup 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny 0 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Rangers' websites have been shoddy as long as there has been a web. Disappointing but the way it's always been. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangent60 0 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 (edited) Out of interest, I have e-mailed (politely of course) Perform Ltd. today on this matter. It would be nice to see some addressing of these issues at their end. Edited May 23, 2012 by tangent60 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted May 23, 2012 Author Share Posted May 23, 2012 Out of interest, I have e-mailed (politely of course) Perform Ltd. today on this matter. It would be nice to see some addressing of these issues at their end. Excellent! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny 0 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Ironic their name is 'Perform' when their site does anything but. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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