MGoBlue Site Design Complete

Submitted by formerlyanonymous on

I think this is version 4.0 for them. I was never a huge fan of v3.0, and that v2.0 was actually better. This new one is supposed to help with formatting and RSS feeds, which, like, awesome.

Check it out. Leave some comments.

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formerlyanonymous

September 10th, 2009 at 8:41 PM ^

  • Schedules are now CSTV style, which is both awesome and a bummer. I liked the old style better myself.
  • The Team Info boxes on the schedule page is scrolling, which I'm not a fan of. (noticed it here)
  • The top bar icons don't always work perfectly. When I scroll over them, I've had to click on the bar before they highlight or show text.
  • The stats icon in that bar takes you to a CBS College Sports page just for Michigan related things. It didn't load properly for me, but this is the same system that I've seen at other schools for all multimedia to be brought together. It runs with microsoft silverlight iirc
  • They have Michigan mgoblue.com email accounts you can set up at http://webmail.mgoblue.com/
  • M Zone is their new feature page - http://www.mgoblue.com/mzone/
  • They've incorporated twitter feeds on each sport's page on the bottom right
  • ESPN.com style page to open for each team with big pictures for news stories.

themoonisdown09

September 15th, 2009 at 5:50 PM ^

Yes, it does. I am currently running Snow Leopard and I've been able to view Silverlight videos on MGoBlue.com and Netflix.

Of course, I'm not booting up using the 64-bit kernel, just the 32-bit (default for Snow Leopard).

By the way karpodiem, will you be uploading the Michigan vs. Eastern Michigan game that is on Saturday? I don't have the Big Ten Network, so I won't be able to see it.

formerlyanonymous

September 10th, 2009 at 9:29 PM ^

I felt the same way. We were absorbed into the CSTV family with the last update which tried to buck the usual trend. I used to love CSTV before CBS took it over. The old CSTV sites used to offer variety, but the CBS corporate take over appears to have put on the pressure to conform.

That and CBS cut out 99.7% of the college baseball content (and all non-football/basketball content as well). That stung pretty bad as it was the only source for Olympic coverage for a good 2 years.

West Texas Blue

September 10th, 2009 at 9:42 PM ^

Why the hell are there ads? The Athletic Department makes plenty of money off basketball and football, so I dunno why they've plastered the site with ads. Other than that, I like the redesign.

tomhagan

September 11th, 2009 at 5:20 AM ^

Much harder to get to the multimedia... its just a mess right now with the new CBS sports thing...

How does one access the football videos with Doug Karsh????

ecormany

September 19th, 2009 at 10:29 AM ^

i'm really disappointed that the new site locks everything inside a silverlight app. sure, it runs fine on my laptop (Mac OS X 10.5 fwiw), but not having access to WMA audio feeds is a real dealbreaker. i _relied_ on those for listening on my phone, especially during hockey season. does anybody know of an alternative stream for the radio broadcasts?