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  • "NEW ERA" Sports and Casinos on the Internet

    How much more can we stay and develop new technologies?

    This is a question which can go so many ways.
    When developing a sportsbook, it is not anymore the 35 or older gambler anymore, it is the 18 year old that gets behind his/her computer/laptop or webtv and starts going at it, with this comes the Internet "junky" the one who stays on-line and doesn't get much else done in life.

    Don't take me wrong, you out there that use the internet for the real reasons, which is to access information (the information super highway).

    The designs have become complicated, a lot of plug-ins, programs or other new "jazzy" thechnologies to see the site are now needed, not as easy anymore as having a simple browser window opening up, now you need to compete with new technologies, and it will go on and like this technology will never stop developing, which is good, but no-one stops and realizes that family values are falling and remember more space and memory it needs to take up in your computer.

    Now we have the sports and casino sites up and running, isn't it about the thrust one puts with his/her money?
    Isn't it still the voice on the telephone with the great service as it is supposed to be?

    Calling up sportsbooks to get informed on your sunday's games, you need to write down tons of different lines, and within a couple of seconds they change anyway, on websites press "refresh lines" and you have it, getting on the phone and getting rundowns has now become a bother, because you take to long to write down or listen and comprehend the changes, etc. And offcourse getting the clerk that is not very enthousiastic to go slow or repeat you is inevitable.

    Designing is the same, why get so many sites, with flash, macromedia, and plugins and other effects that take so much longer?
    Why not get a nice and fast downloadable site you can look at without waiting to long as feeling that either you don't want to have to do anything with this site or want to jump up and go do something else, wouldn't you rather have a nice, polite and service minded clerk on the phone, the book pays for it "usually"?

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    Warawara,
    I see by your profile that you're an IT person. What would you describe as the best or top few gambling websites out there?
    I like Intertops for their layout, and the data they provide, but it's got a few superfluous graphics for mine which can take too long to download.
    WSEX is very easy to use, but pretty bland for mine.
    I'm very impressed with the latest William Hill site, very clean and quite quick to move around, and about the only offshore (Australian shores) place that offers betting in Australian dollars.
    Bowmans - I like the drop-down box prices, simple but effective, yet they aren't live numbers.

    Any thoughts?

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    • #3
      boris

      I did see wsex a while ago and found it to the point but to much text at once, from a "designers point of view" I do find this site to swamp with the text and the extra scolling windows.
      On your recommendation I just visited intertops and yes it is very nice, looking through it and while I am answering you I am downloading the casino program to see how it is.

      One thing, I've seen their banner advertising everywhere, but never clicked to go to their site, they do have an extensive reach already over the net and what I am sure of is that they have a couple of young and dynamic people working with them to keep this up and top.

      One thing that is dangerous or for some a threath, they don't feel at home using a computer, do scare off the first time you click on their sportsbook button, because "there is something to download".

      My question to you is with the casinos on the net, do people really look for playing the "casino" game or is it just another game that you can get through the internet?
      Is it the design within the game then that should be perfected, will they be looking for ravampments "new look" once in a while?

      How big can the program be to download?
      Will people expect smaller then 10mb?
      Once the ISDN technology comes through everywhere, people can start to download faster.

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