What would you do to improve the existing Rhinos website?
Are there any better RL sites the club could learn from?

Navigation.

And a general cleanup and all would be well IMHO.


....oh and getting rid of that bloody second window that boots up behind the website for 888 poker/bingo and whatever.

I know that its under review at the moment so any serious suggestions will be read and digested by Mr D.

There's a lot to do! I think our website is possibly one of the worst in SL at the mo to be honest. But as Mc_F says... it's under review.

It needs to be all dedicated to the rhinos and the cricket and union should get there own sites!

Exactly, that's why I posted this so that people could make their views known.
I think that the clour scheme makes reading some of the articles very difficult. Anybody with any visual disability must find it very hard to read at times.

Yeah. KS should do the background design

I'd like to see them updating the Academy profiles - Kallum Watkins isn't on and I don't think ever has been (Allan, Jones-Bishop and McShane are on it), Kashley Watkins isn't on, neither is Tom Bush - last year's Academy Player of the Year.

Also, a good feature I saw on the Wigan site (I think) is that it tells you whether players are fit, injured etc., for how long etc.

The Wigan site is very good. We could learn alot from that. Can't say I'm much of a fan of the new Bulls site though, I think it was better left alone.

Try and buy tickets or merchandise on-line, it’s a nightmare, also some web control programs class leedsrugby.com as a ‘gaming’ website because of the associate pop-ups and restrict access.

The site ads down the left look uneven and messy
The ‘Latest News’ link at the top of the home page is useless as all the links are available on the Home page anyway.
With a ‘slow’ browser the site can take longer to load than others because of the graphical background.

Overall it looks a little dataed.

It must be around 6 or 7 years old now.

i think they could do with a good stats man on that site and we know who he is.
come in tvoc

The club shop website needs to be drastically improved. I know quite a lot of people up home that would like to order things from it, but the selection of stuff they put up there is poor.

Something that is mobile internet friendly too ?

Tbh i dont think theres anything wrong with the website.

I offered my view some time ago that its a very typical example of what you get when you go to "professional" web site designers who really want to show off what they can do rather than produce a web site that is useful to the client - my own company's head office web site is exactly the same and gets far fewer hits than the one that I did from scratch for our branch in Leeds - thats not because I am super-good at designing web sites, just that I made ours a straighforward sales web site and took note of what an optimisation expert told me to do.

Given that our club win awards nearly every season for the outstanding quality of the matchday programme, and the fact that the programme is written totally in-house, then I think the answer is hitting everyone in the face with a baseball bat - ditch the graphic front end and go for a magazine format with a simple page index type navigation, its something that the in-house programme author(s) will feel familiar with - and by the way, ditch the blue background while you're at it.

I could talk for hours about this. I agree with everything you've said.

Also, we're World Champions!! The website looks like it belongs to a Sunday League Club with a bit of time on their hands.

It's amazing that we can be innovative with our repeatedly “award winning” match day programme, but ignore the website, which as someone has already stated has not been updated in over 7 years - very poor.

Why do we have to go thru the various selection processes to get the Rhino's home page? If we wanted Cricket, UNION, corporate, retail, experience or Lodge, we would find it thru a normal search engine. It would be interesting to see how many "hits" these sites have taken. We don't even have a TOP 10 Stats page for appearances, Tries, Kicks etc.

Come on get us an Informative Website to be proud of, we may be Double Super League Champions, but we a bottom of the table with the Website.

I was surfing the other day and came across Pompeys website [urlhttp://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/[/url, it's inviting and provides various info etc, even video clips. Why should we have to go to youtube to watch Donald score his brilliant try against Hull last season, our site should have this and more.

That's what happens when you do a google search for sailors.

Actually looking to see if Defoe was cup-tied for the s-f league cup match - Burnley -v- Spurs

In fact he was on the bench, but never played when pompey played Chelsea in the League cup earlier in the season.

Nice cover story.

OK You got me, here's my popeye impression

My thoughts on it are:

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Hard to get to actual rhinos content. Domain name points to a selection of Leeds Rhinos & Leeds Carnegie - fair enough from the url, but Cricket, Corporate Opportunities, Retail, Experience & Lodge seem mis-placed. After that there is a splash screen for whatever is being promoted at the time, then after this you are to the main content page. Probably not the best design.
Online shop is woeful, with little range, which is essential for people who live outside of the city. GH has mentioned that the club has a significant level of support from outside the sity. This could be better targetted if merchandise was easily available through the website. The shop section looks amatuerish
Polls that are more often than not out of date
The site is not great from a usability point of view and does look dated with the background image.
Also found it hard to find where to buy tickets online
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DONT THINK you can buy tickets on line now - You could not renew season tickets this year / last year on line either

One of the biggest problems for me is usability - it's very difficult to get the information that I need from it and if I didn't know myself how to get to the ticket order system, I'd be knackered.

For instance, I was looking at ticket prices for last night's game. Now if you look at the [url=http://leedsrugby.dnsupdate.co.uk/leedsrhinos/suppages/ticket-info.asp?index=801ticket info[/url page (it may change today), the details are in there but they are needlessly hidden within the all-too common sales spiel about the tickets for the WCC, season tickets, Headingley Lodge and whatever else the club is trying to flog. As a result, the page has got seven "folds" in it - far too many in my view.
I know why they've done it, but this is where the club appears to be confused as to which parts of the site are sales channels and which parts of the site are information portals.

That's not helped by the navigation - the menu on the left is far too big. Condense it into smaller sections, make it clear which section is which and it will be more efficient.

Graphically, it's poor. White text on a dark blue watermark is not a good combination and there are lots of elementary problems with presentation (such as the ads on the right each being different sizes) which just look amateurish.

I'd probably make a few other points but there's stuff to do. Apologies to Phil whilst I'm at it (I'm sure he'll be reading this). I did get your PM but never got around to responding. Rest assured, I'm not the sort who's happy to slag-off on a public forum without being constructive.