Jets Draft Kellen Clemens

Holy Crap - how stoked am I right now? My favorite NFL team, daaaa Jets. Favorite college team? Well, since I'm a Duck it has to be Oregon.

Clemens is going to kick major butt in New York! Can't wait to see him play with the other O-line picks.

Yahoo and Prudential team up in real estate

I wish I could find more information about this online, but I just can't. I was watching TV when I say a commercial advertising Prudential Financial and Yahoo Real Estate.

It seems to me this is significant, especially with Google getting a lot of attention for their inclusion in the Pontiac commercial.

More Yahoo Images

I think these are pretty cool, so I took some extra screen shots. It seems that I can only find the Yahoo image text ads on Yahoo Sports articles and only using Firefox, but not IE (at least not the IE 7 preview).

Here was my original post about the Yahoo images in their text ads.

Yahoo Ads Displaying Images

So I was reading about how George Mason beat Connecticut in the NCAA tournament when I got to the bottom of the article. Holy Crap - look what I found!

Yahoo's sponsored links at the bottom of the page have small little images screen shots of the destination website.

Here is what I saw:



Now, I have not seen this before, but let me check into this a little bit more and I'll blog it up if I find anything else.

PS - Hey Yahoo, can we get a little YPN love and throw some images in our contextual ads? Please?

Google Base On GSerps

Haha, I ran across this in the Google Serps yesterday when doing a search for "Google Jobs." Thought that it was something new, then changed back to reporting old news, only to find out it was new news. Go figure. :0)

Oregon Football Loses To Oklahoma

The Oregon football team barely lost the Holiday Bowl tonight. God, I can not even describe how terrible I feel. First of all, the Ducks almost overcame a poor showing in the first half to come back against an Oklahoma team.

Then, after an amazing 4th down conversion, Brady Leaf threw an interception on 1st down of the last drive and the game was over for the ducks. My roommates and I were literally heart broken. Everyone is going to say how Oregon was overrated, but I say screw that. Oregon just did not execute its game plan effectively and killed itÂ’s first half momentum by changing quarterbacks. Excuse me as I go cry...

Either way, cheers to the next year of Oregon Duck Football; I also hope that the basketball can turn the team around! Go Ducks!

Reactions to the new University of Oregon homepage

So at the beginning of Fall Term 2005, the University of Oregon launched a new website redesign. The new homepage features some more descriptive and interactive graphics. It seems to me that the new Oregon page is an attempt at appealing to new students and faculty, whereas the last homepage design catered more to the students. Based on reactions to the new page which I have heard from my peers, I'd say the page isn't being welcomed as administrative officials might have thought.

Although I did not originally like the new page as well, it has grown on me. The old page was so unique to the University of Oregon. What we have now is something much more standard and played out. However, I did say that it has grown on me, and it has. I like the new flash on the welcome screen and the better news feature on the bottom of the page.

As much as I'm starting to accept the new page for what it is, there are some things about it that I just can't seem to get over. I think that the design on the JavaScript drop down menus is terrible. The menus seem to appear out of no where and have nothing to align to.

The other thing that I dislike is that other pages are not being converted to the new format quickly enough. All I want for Christmas is a university website that is unified on all levels. For example, take a look at the Office of the President. See any design differences? Sure you do, the Office of the President page looks like it was made pre-2000. It's not professional, and it's not representative of the University of Oregon. Now take a look at this, I incorporated the information from the Office of the President page into the new format. It took me practically all night, but never the less I did it. Why did I do it? I did it simply to show that pages can and should be updated to the new format. If the university can't allocate resources to updating pages, then they should outsource the work to a design firm. I can think of a few great web design firms that would love the work.