{"id":4221,"date":"2013-11-26T13:18:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T19:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2013-11-26T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T19:20:00","slug":"fox-sports-website-breaks-what-didnt-need-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/fox-sports-website-breaks-what-didnt-need-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Sports&#8217; website breaks what didn&#8217;t need fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Sports had the easiest place to catch up on non-live college football scores. One page had nothing but the week&#8217;s scores, in a simple text format, listing which team was the home team.<\/p>\n<p>Until now.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/buzzer\/story\/welcome-to-the-all-new-foxsports-com-112013\">Welcome to the all-new FOXSports.com<\/a>\u00a0(Nov. 20)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Things look a bit different. New layout. New scoring products. New device look and feel. All wrapped in a fully responsive\u00a0architecture that puts mobile at the heart of our design. &#8230; Everything filters through a mobile-first lens.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t WANT something that &#8220;puts mobile at the heart of design.&#8221; I am on a computer. I want a WEBSITE. I don&#8217;t want gobs of pictures with few links visible at any given time.<\/p>\n<p>How in the world does dividing up the scores into Top 25 or conferences-only, in a layout that takes up more space and graphics and code per item, more user-friendly? For any device?<\/p>\n<p>Web designers, please <em>stop sacrificing desktop usability<\/em> for a &#8220;mobile experience&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Sports had the easiest place to catch up on non-live college football scores. One page had nothing but the week&#8217;s scores, in a simple text format, listing which team was the home team. Until now. Welcome to the all-new &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/fox-sports-website-breaks-what-didnt-need-fixing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4223,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions\/4223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}