Can we rank the Counties by their respectve Official Websites

[BigJohnBrowne]

www.LeitrimGAA.ie should still be at the top of the premier league as it's constantly updated with video highlights, pictures highlights 20,000 images !!!, news items and all fixtures and results at the touch of a button.

I live in Dublin and rely on it a lot to keep me in the picture midweek - My number 1 GAA site !!!

[SLIGONIAN]

Sligogaa.ie unreal at updating, club results all summer long updated that night. Fair amount of pictures aswell.

Having used both, I would both top 4 premier league  ;)with maybe Leitrim shading due to showing video highlights of the club championship. .

[imtommygunn]

Antrim site is very good.

The admin on it has a stinking attitude though.

I like the sound of the club championship videos - sounds great.

Sportsmanager with the managing of results has made all these sites so much better.(If that;s what you call the results service..)

[Farrandeelin]

Mayo's has to be one of the worst. It could do with having more info on it than just club fixtures.

[catchandkick]

Kerry site is excellent, do a very good job

[SLIGONIAN]

When I was pricing up all the championships I obviously used a lot of these. Generally how I would categorise them is....

(1) Top Class - Informative and well presented

Leitrim
Antrim
Derry
Kerry (up until it went offline after the All Ireland)
Longford
Meath
Dublin

(2) Not bad - generally had the information, but could be better

Mayo
Down
Offaly
Donegal
Clare
Tipperary
Limerick
Louth

(3) Not great. Hit and miss, looks poor.

Sligo
London
Fermanagh
Cavan
Monaghan
Waterford
Wexford

(4) Awful or non-existent

Cork
Kilkenny
Armagh
Westmeath
Carlow
Wicklow
Galway
Roscommon
New York

Tyrone and Laois not active during the summer, unfair to judge. Kildare was a strange one. Looks great, no useful information whatsoever. Not once did they have accurate fixtures posted up by Friday for the weekend.
Having said all that, there were some good unofficial ones that took up the slack for the weaker counties (website-wise). KKCats, Sheepstealers, Rebel GAA and orchardcounty all told me everything I needed to know.

Your gonna have to explain to me whats wrong with the Sligo one? I think it looks good. Updating of it couldnt be better. Not sure youve used it to be honest.

[mountainboii]

When I was pricing up all the championships I obviously used a lot of these. Generally how I would categorise them is....

(1) Top Class - Informative and well presented

Leitrim
Antrim
Derry
Kerry (up until it went offline after the All Ireland)
Longford
Meath
Dublin

(2) Not bad - generally had the information, but could be better

Mayo
Down
Offaly
Donegal
Clare
Tipperary
Limerick
Louth

(3) Not great. Hit and miss, looks poor.

Sligo
London
Fermanagh
Cavan
Monaghan
Waterford
Wexford

(4) Awful or non-existent

Cork
Kilkenny
Armagh
Westmeath
Carlow
Wicklow
Galway
Roscommon
New York

Tyrone and Laois not active during the summer, unfair to judge. Kildare was a strange one. Looks great, no useful information whatsoever. Not once did they have accurate fixtures posted up by Friday for the weekend.
Having said all that, there were some good unofficial ones that took up the slack for the weaker counties (website-wise). KKCats, Sheepstealers, Rebel GAA and orchardcounty all told me everything I needed to know.

Your gonna have to explain to me whats wrong with the Sligo one? I think it looks good. Updating of it couldnt be better. Not sure youve used it to be honest.

2006

[SLIGONIAN]

When I was pricing up all the championships I obviously used a lot of these. Generally how I would categorise them is....

(1) Top Class - Informative and well presented

Leitrim
Antrim
Derry
Kerry (up until it went offline after the All Ireland)
Longford
Meath
Dublin

(2) Not bad - generally had the information, but could be better

Mayo
Down
Offaly
Donegal
Clare
Tipperary
Limerick
Louth

(3) Not great. Hit and miss, looks poor.

Sligo
London
Fermanagh
Cavan
Monaghan
Waterford
Wexford

(4) Awful or non-existent

Cork
Kilkenny
Armagh
Westmeath
Carlow
Wicklow
Galway
Roscommon
New York

Tyrone and Laois not active during the summer, unfair to judge. Kildare was a strange one. Looks great, no useful information whatsoever. Not once did they have accurate fixtures posted up by Friday for the weekend.
Having said all that, there were some good unofficial ones that took up the slack for the weaker counties (website-wise). KKCats, Sheepstealers, Rebel GAA and orchardcounty all told me everything I needed to know.

Your gonna have to explain to me whats wrong with the Sligo one? I think it looks good. Updating of it couldnt be better. Not sure youve used it to be honest.

2006

Is that in reference to the last time Lone Shark was on it AFS. Would explain alot.

www.sligogaa.ie

Have a look again soo..

[TheGreatRambo]

Antrim site is very good.

The admin on it has a stinking attitude though.

I like the sound of the club championship videos - sounds great.

Sportsmanager with the managing of results has made all these sites so much better.(If that;s what you call the results service..)

That Sportsmanager system is only as good as the people implementing it, Monaghans use of it has been useless (a bit like the whole site in general) http://www.sportsmanager.ie/t7.php?userid=23&leaguetable=1&report=1&reporttype=mixresults&compid=10200&countyid=23&club_id=&sportid=1
This is their current table for the Senior League, the league finished a week ago with all teams playing 18 games and then two semi finals and a final.

Site address for anyone who cares to look http://www.monaghan.gaa.ie/

[Celt_Man]

The cavan one is pure muck... can't stand when they have a new news topic or event it gets included in the menu bar at the side.....

As well as that I hate the way the amadán who updates it, feels the need to annouce the fact that it is him who updates it (personally I would be trying to distance my name from it but...) in bold letters centre page on the home page...

Did I hear they are in the process of getting a new one - so in true committee fashion it will be online in no time 

[BigJohnBrowne]

Your gonna have to explain to me whats wrong with the Sligo one? I think it looks good. Updating of it couldnt be better. Not sure youve used it to be honest.

The original league table was drawn up in 2006, and I agree that the Sligo site should now be promoted to the top division.  They seem to have put in a lot of work improving the appearance and the supply of info.

Anyone out there available to rate the sites as they stand now at the end of 2009 ? (kind of league table status at the end of this decade)

It would be interesting to see who is taking their website seriously ........

Any takers ?

[Louth Exile]

I came across the Leitrim one a while ago myself, I have to say that it is excellent, a job well done.

I totally concur with the comments on the sportstracker. Louth went through a period where it was not being used and the site was a disaster as a result. I have to say, that for the last yeat though it has been excellent and I can pretty much rely on it, only problem being refixtures and the problems here are normally caused by the clubs themselves.

Be it club or county, there is no point having any website live on the web if you are not going to keep it updated. Simmonstown in Meath were nominated for best website in Leinster back in February and shortly afterwards they stopped updating it!! Last article is back in March!!

[The squinted eye]

Leitrim one is great (although it is not the best looking of sites) but it is a complete one man show, allegedly the guy is just on it 24/7 what will happen after the PRO steps down i dont know, is it too technical for someone else to update.

I am still a big fan of Antrims they do a great job up there and Downs is good too, results are up straight after the match is over, the pros of a lot of Down clubs are technically updating it for them. This should be the case as the County PRO has a huge workload as it is

[BigJohnBrowne]

Think that there is a group of people feeding the Leitrim site.... Photographer, Video guy, Scor reporter, Ladies, handball hurling (both occasionally) - PRO appears to do an awful lot but it has and would need many inputs as site is so massive in size. No flash movey bits going off in 20 directions but just simple solid content and pretty much everything thought off - model site.

[Tony Baloney]

The Antrim site is great for content and John Friel and Martin McCarry are two of the best gaa website designers in the 32. Unfortunately the Admin on the Antrim site is an awful obnoxious bollox who gets on like a nightclub bouncer. The posts either toe Papa Doc's party line or they get heavily edited with a sarky comment attached.