ATi re-designed their site

[Rand]

Just in case anyone cares I notice ATi did a re-design of their site.
It looks pretty different, but the actual menu and browsing is still failry similar to how it was before.
It's still nice and easy to get around their site and find what you need quickly.

 

[AA0]

I saw this a little while ago, all I can say is ATI should fire their web designer. It still doesn't work with opera properly, although this version is much better then before. I've filed complaints to the company, as saying anything to their webmaster is an absolute waste.

 

[LarryJoe]

I agree, their web site sucks. It requires pluggins for their drop down menu's that never quite work right. Not to mention, thier site is slow.

ATI should just concentrate on hardware and sub out the driver and software developement to someone competent, because they suck at it.

 

[FlamingPanther]

Amen, Why do they re-do the site every few months anyway?

Just FYI, it doesn't work 100% of the time with IE6 either.

FP

 

[adamkmiec]

while I agree that ATI needs a new designer and developer for their site, I really don't think that should be catering to opera users. when you build a site you have to identify a core audience and in most cases you are talking about windows OS users, with IE, at 800x600 resolution, with Quicktime 4, and Flash 4. I would find it hard to belive that opera users constitute a big enough audience to make ATI want to develop for those users. It sucks but it's the nature of the beast. Hell I've worked on sites (bmwusa.com, nikonusa.com, tradearca.com, etc) where we basically decided based on mediametrics, netgravity information, and webtrends data that the core audience was nearly 100% IE users, and thus some things that dont neccessarily flow right on NEtscape browsers (some DHTML scripts) we simply had to say hey Netscape users "tough." again it sucks but thats the nature of the business. To make a site compatible to every browser and platform is tough. Right now I'm working on the US Postal Service and GoArmy.com sites which have really tough requirements because they are government sites. WE basically have to build a whole seperate site for those people who are color blind, deaf, or blind in order to be DOD 508 compliant. Now that is a nightmare.

 

[jamesbond007]

Well, the site works great for me, but I noticed there are a lot of color changes. I think they should have made a scheme and kept it throughout the site. It starts off with a lot of red, then goes red and white, then lots of red and blue!?!? Pick a few colors and stick with it.

My $0.02

 

[AA0]

making a site work for opera is not hard at all, it follows standards pretty well. The site just needs to be modified a little, which means the web designer actually needs to learn how to do things a different way and not point n click in dreamweaver.