Posted October 13, 201113 yr The OCC have completely re-organised/re-vamped their Site. I think it is easier to use, than their previous one. A lot more user friendly. What do you Guys think? LINK:, http://www.theofficialcharts.com/ Edited October 13, 201113 yr by zeus555
October 13, 201113 yr That's cool. But the only reason that I never really used the previous one was because there was no way jump forward and backwards a week. Like you had to go and find the dates each time, which was so annoying and extremely time-consuming for something you can do so rapidly on other chart websites, and it looks like they still haven't changed that (unless they have and I've missed it), so I probably won't use it much (apart from maybe looking at the current week's chart). Edited October 13, 201113 yr by Eric_Blob
October 14, 201113 yr The OCC have completely re-organised/re-vamped their Site. I think it is easier to use, than their previous one. A lot more user friendly. What do you Guys think? LINK:, http://www.theofficialcharts.com/ I knew from C+ this week that they had a new logo, but I didn't know about the website revamp. Still a bit glitchy though - when I tried looking at the album chart, it kept opening up new copies of it, and I only just managed to close them down fast enough!
October 14, 201113 yr That Noel Gallagher story is lolz, it was on MW the other day, it's like reading your dad complaining that he can't set the video recorder :lol: The new site is flashy, but I'm not sure it's as good for content as before...
October 14, 201113 yr That Noel Gallagher story is lolz, it was on MW the other day, it's like reading your dad complaining that he can't set the video recorder :lol: The new site is flashy, but I'm not sure it's as good for content as before... Well the most obvious improvement would be for them to POST THE BLOODY SALES FIGURES!
October 14, 201113 yr Author Mart!n - The Archive Charts are here:, http://www.theofficialcharts.com/archive/music/
October 16, 201113 yr It's just far too clunky for me. MUCH clunkier than the old one, which was actually starting to grow on me after initially hating it. This is why I so often prefer fan-made sites rather than the slicker, professional sites - the former are nearly always far more user-friendly and simpler in layout, with less baggage and thus are usually easier to load. Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned. Apart from improving the speed for a start, accessing the chart archives needs to be much easier also. At the moment, I have to go through three screens (each of which takes ages to load because of the general clunkiness of the site), go scrolling down a huge drop down menu on the second screen, and then looking through a long list of dates on the third screen - why?! Chartstats has the right idea on this - a simple box at the top where the user can easily ENTER a date themselves. Yes, I see, the OCC site now has that at the top, but first you have to pick the date from another bloody drop-down menu (did I mention I hate these things?) and then it only shows the top 10, and with no extra info like last week positions, etc.?! To get the 'full' top 40 with that information from a certain date, I have to go through the above process. And why do they have no running week tallys on their old(er) charts? The column is there but it's empty - this would be a genuine plus over other sites showing archive UK charts. That said, the artist page is still fine, and I'm glad they kept the information like record labels and catalogue numbers on those pages rather than sacrificing them for the sake of "flashiness" - but given that was already there before that hardly counts as an improvement. Oh, and design-wise, I far preferred the previous (predominately) blue personally. I do kind of like the design of the new chart pages accept for one thing: why oh WHY have they made the font smaller on them?
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