Sports Sites Revamp
Both CBS Sportsline and TSN have given their websites redesigns this week.
Sportsline has been given more of tweaking. A bit of a cleaner look overall, I definitely like it and think it’s easier to read. The front of the site has been designed for a 1024x768 layout. The rightside column doesn’t have too much sports-related content though. Mostly promos for CBS Sports TV, CBS News and CBS TV’s nightly schedule. The inside pages have the cleaner headers, but are still designed for 800x600 resolutions, however the expanded layout may still be coming, could just be a staggered rollout.
TSN was given more of a facelift. They also expanded the front page to cater to the 1024x768 audience and now there’s content everywhere. It’s a bit too crowded and even moreso on FireFox compared to IE (especially the menu). I can’t imagine they won’t fix that soon. There’s also a javascript error, but that looks like it’s due to one of their ad scripts. None of the other pages I visited seemed to be redone yet.
ESPN re-did their own site not too long ago, so I would expect it to be at least another year before another change is made.
Fox Sports and Sports Illustrated are still the only major sports sites that still have front pages that have designs catered to people using 800x600 resolution settings.