Does anyone know what's going on with this site? When I try and go to it I get redirected to sportcal.com. Does anyone else find the same?
EBU website: News Worldbadminton website ceases operation 04 January 2006 The popular worldbadminton.net website is no longer in operation. Having been created and maintained by the former IBF staff based in the UK, the website has been replaced with a new website managed by the new IBF office in Malaysia. IBF has decided to stop using its worldbadminton.net website in favour of a new website found at http://www.internationalbadminton.org/ The worldbadminton.net website published the official weekly IBF World Ranking and produced draws for all Grand Prix tournaments. It was also the place to view latest news articles about international badminton. This made it a popular destination for badminton players, officials and fans to visit. It is expected that the new IBF website will continue to display these functions and features.
SIF Bcentral is bad. International badminton looks like a pile. Its just picutres and text which does not seem to flow well to create a harmonious web browsing experience.
this "new" IBF website matches exactly the current decisions made to scoring and shuttle replacement. backwards, inward looking, and totally disconnected with the real world. they are rarely isolated incidences, it usually goes all the way up the chain. given that, it would be of interest to see what a mess organization changes have occured as well.
I thought the http://www.worldbadminton.net was worse..., the new http://www.internationalbadminton.org is even much worser..... For decades, I have never seen such an organization as terrible as IBF, now it is from worse to worst. The people who run IBF, are so brainless. They are like a group of retarded people without any mathematics training. The ranking system has been in pre-kindergarden level for decades. Our local community (about 20 people without money) even has a much better database and web site. There is no wonder why outside people never respect badminton as a sport game.
IBF really needs to hire some competent company to have their website done properly. the look of the new site is IMHO amateur at best. if there is anything that IBF wants to steal from tennis, insteading of stealing the overhead service, why not have a look at the www.atptennis.com and steal some ideas from their website? or www.nfl.com , or www.nba.com , or www.mlb.com . all these sites have a professional look and software backend that works. www.internationalbadminton.org looks amateur and on top of that, it looks like it was put online pre-maturely. i wouldn't have put up a press-release of it given the current state of the site. and please don't copy www.badmintoncentral.com , i would have re-written the whole BC from scratch if i have the time to do so. frankly i think much improvement can be done to it. but sadly, at the current state of affairs, the IBF official site isn't much better, if not worse.
hopefully the new website will improve with time. Its only the first day up so maybe they are just working everything out
there are too many fundamental problems with the website design, and simply patching to make it work better is the least of their problems. they took a boilerplate news style website (probably one of those freeware ones) and just changed the buttons and names to reflect their website. no structural or artistic design, nor any user considerations. their older website, while not artistically mesmerizing was functional, and structure was good. but then again - it is evident in every single action they have undertaken so far, and this is just another example of incompetence in action.
ROTFLMAO!!!! check the source code for their website - yes indeed, it is a template, and they likely didn't even figure out how to get everything connected before publishing it. they probably didn't even contact the webpage designer to get some support or custom work to at least make it better. On the other side, the freeware owner must be pissed to have such an abomination of his designs half-assed implemented. He does have some decent enough looking web templates. Go figure the mentality of the IBF... from the webpage: // Use Freely as long as following disclaimer is intact :: //--------------------------------------------------------------- // Cross Browser Multi-Orientation Menu v1.0 23rd October 2003 // This script written by Rik Comery. www.ricom.co.uk // For support, visit the "Resources" section at www.ricom.co.uk // All rights reserved.
by browsing through the new site a little bit, it looks like they took the old site and started making modifications to it. some old functionalities are still there, but some somehow have disappeared, leaving dead pages around. and on top of that, they tried to make aesthetic changes to the site at the same time. i think it is probably best to pull all the code/data from the original site to the new server, and then make the whole thing functional as it was before, and then start making changes. while it won't win any design awards, the old site is functionally adequate. all they need is to hire a good web designer who can make it spiffy and professional looking instead of mucking around with the old one. my wild guess is that they may have hired an internal staff to handle the website, and the person(s) involved may have under-estimated what it takes to put up a website like this. and given the importance of it being the official IBF website, they have unfortunately tarnished the image of the IBF as a result. we can only hope that the appropriate remedies will be fixed ASAP. the Swiss Open is underway and then the German and the pretigious AE will be coming soon after. most badminton fans will be relying on the IBF site to get official results.
nice find badrad! they do have some nice looking templates. IMHO though, IBF pick one of their worse looking ones.
yeh, even in the "Low Budget" section there are several nice ones, and has even some flash elements. IBF could have commisioned the designer to jazz up the logo or other nice little elements. the low budget ones start as low as 18 pounds, and some of the better ones in the 30 to 40 pound price range. is the IBF so cash strapped they wouldn't spend an extra 20 pounds for something a little nicer looking? http://www.ricom.co.uk/templates/search.html?category=56 go figure....
Thank you for the news and new link Jan_BE. I also tried accessing the previous site and apparently it has changed. Well, upon checking out the site briefly, overall what i can sense is that IBF's new organization, in Malaysia, has totally gone a "different route/approach", esp. in terms of presentation. The contents, IMO, is still there, but i just feel they haven't sort some of the kinks out, as it still in the very early stages. One more thing i noticed is that, in the previous IBF website, they never announced anything about the new website will replaced the old one. I understand and can feel how some of us guys in here, esp. our own Kwun , have voiced their opinions upon seeing and browsing the new site. It's a common issue, esp. seeing a totally different presentation after we've been accustomed to seeing the previous IBF official website for years. I agree somewhat with Kwun's idea, that perhaps keeping the original design intact for the time being is the best approach, whilst the new IBF office and people get organized. But we don't know why IBF didn't decide to go that route instead(personally i don't really care why). We, as BC members and badminton supporters, have one advantage though. That is, perhaps our own Sally can give the new IBF people some inputs and we,(Kwun), who are active in this forum can suggest some ideas to her to be passed on to whoever is the website manager of IBF... I just hope with some more enhancements and creativity, the new IBF website will improve and provide us with a better product, even if they decide to present it in a different way.
i think the problem with the website is a deeper issue than simply an attempt at a new look (of which this latest one simply does not accomplish). the domain ownership of worldbadminton.net is owned by a UK individual, who still has listed under as @intbadfed.org. the domain registration for internationalbadminton.org is owned by someone in Indonesia. (the actual details i leave out intentionally due to privacy issues). i have seen this happen before when organizations and leadership changes over and either there is lack of agreement for the transfer of the name registry/intellectual property or disregard for the depth of development to create new. what this will boil down to is that by disregarding history, history will repeat itself. what a mess! fixing the website will the least of IBF's problems.
