[TBA]: Site Redesign: Direction?

[Greg Marra]

Hello everyone!

The Blue Alliance site redesign for 2009 is coming along nicely, and at this point we need to think about how we want The Blue Alliance to look. The site design we've used for the last two years has worked fairly well, but it was basically a WordPress theme that we just slapped some HTML into the middle of. We managed to fit everything, but it was never carefully planned out. White on grey isn't the easiest to read color scheme, and things were a bit smooshed.

With the 2009 site, we want to be more deliberate in the page design, so you're probably going to see an all-new The Blue Alliance design. However, we really want to solicit community feedback - you're the ones who viewed 1,000,000 pages on the site in 2008, so you probably have the best ideas of what would make the information you're after easier to find and make the site more useful overall.

What are your favorite parts of The Blue Alliance? What do you wish we had that we don't? How do you usually use the site, and what do you think would make it better?

If anyone has web design experience, let us know and maybe you can help us with the new design. We're hoping to build something great for the tens of thousands of unique visitors we get each competition season, and we want to work with the community to build something with your input and collaboration.