New Official Site

[westbaygull]

Had a try for you, Chips, seeing as online shopping is my key skill...nope, link not working. Have got onto the page via google though (see, IT expert that I am) and it's here http://www.tufcshop.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Happy spending :K

[Trojan 67]

"The Tangled Web We Weave"

The Football League has stuck it's jackboot in and told TUFC to withdraw it's criticism of the new imposed website.

Who the hell do these FL nob heads think they are ?

http://www.torquayunited.com/news/artic ... 68284.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[stevegull]

Just to add to this:

Stoke appear to be on the same site but it looks fairly good...

http://www.stokecityfc.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[cambgull]

They will be several steps ahead of us, but yes, it looks alright. Pretty poor for a Premiership club though. Compare that to United, Liverpool, Arsenal, City, Spurs and pretty much every other club in the Premiership and it's a bit rubbish.

[stevegull]

They will be several steps ahead of us, but yes, it looks alright. Pretty poor for a Premiership club though. Compare that to United, Liverpool, Arsenal, City, Spurs and pretty much every other club in the Premiership and it's a bit rubbish.

Yeah I won't deny that. I was just trying to show that it's better than our club's poor excuse for a website right now...

[cambgull]

To be fair, they will be one of the first on the list to sort out, we'll be one of the last. Ours will look decent eventually, we just need to be patient.

[AustrianAndyGull]

God i HATE sensible people! :no:

[cambgull]

I'm by no means sensible, I just have momentary lapses in stupidity once in a while!

[cambgull]

Not sure if this is a general thing for all FLi websites but I notice there is a 'tickets' button next to all our fixtures. Preparing for online ticketing maybe?

[stevegull]

Not sure if this is a general thing for all FLi websites but I notice there is a 'tickets' button next to all our fixtures. Preparing for online ticketing maybe?

Would be good but can't see our club being on the crest of that particular wave. If we do that it will be long after it has been established, and probably once a more efficient ticketing method becomes available.

[numpte]

They had a ticket tab in the last version with not much in it so i wouldn't hold out for online ticketing anytime soon.

Website is still poor, why they have that annoying entry page come up 10 seconds after you think your in is beyond me.

Would like to see the hit figures form this year to last, bet they are way down.

I've stopped using it and only reluctantly go there for Gulls player.

[stevegull]

Even the pictures on our site still appear stretched and distorted. The ONLY reason i can see why the football league would choose to do this is to show a live twitter feed on everyone's website.

[the_shredder]

Obviously we all agree the new site is hideous, and i'm probably not alone in finding those side-adverts incredibly annoying when sometimes you just want to "click-off" somewhere to deselect something, or select the window itself, only to open some annoying advert..

What i'd like to know is, just because we are apparently legally tied to having this site - why do we have to actively use it? Why can't we get up a 2nd website that wasn't designed in the 20th century and actually have something worth visiting? Seems like among the Torquay fanbase there is enough people to voluntarily set up a good looking site, and others to update it with match reports etc. frequently without requiring money (they do it here anyway)

In fact, why not extend THIS site to incorporate some new features? It doesn't have to just be a forum - it does appear to be THE most popular Torquay United website bar none. So why not capitalise on it, and have a proper website navigation system with a match reports area, news area, squad list, fixtures, etc. etc. etc. ?? A few adverts scattered around to contribute towards the hosting, and an option to pay £2.99/month to be a pro member with no adverts and elevated privaleges in the forum or something.... ?

[Louis]

Really like the idea shredder was considering some of this in the past but wasn't sure it's what people want. I'll snap something up when I get some spare time to develop it. Thanks for the suggestion!

[AustrianAndyGull]

The new website is crap. Also the new formats of other clubs websites ( like Port Vale ) for example are basically un-navigable. There are blocks and boxes with text and graphics going off all over the shop and i just can't be arsed with it. It is slow and confusing.