bbc news website

[TheFaQQer]

I much prefered the old, compact one to this.

Not impressed - waste of taxpayers money!

[Gonzo]

I much prefered the old, compact one to this.

Not impressed - waste of taxpayers money!

Absolutely agree. Why do they spend all that money on the website when CEEFAX was perfectly adequate.

[Board Game Geek]

I hate the new BBC site. I much preferred the old one, and had come to enjoy its familiar layout and style. Now its all changed, and it will never be the same again. /cry

[Diver]

Who cares! it's just a political platform of lies and misinformation anyway

[NickFitz]

I like it, but then again I'm a great believer in copious whitespace improving readability, and that's basically all they've done.

I would imagine that they've figured that as the majority of their readers have more than 800x600 or even 1024x768 monitors these days, they can add in the extra whitespace and make it easier on the eye. The judicious use of whitespace for this purpose is something that was well known to printers right back to the days of letterpress printing, but got rather lost when we had to make stuff fit on to comparatively cramped screens.

FWIW the folks at the Beeb News online team study these things very closely before making a change, or at least used to the last time I was there - a long time ago now, yet the current design isn't tremendously different from what was implemented with the move to using CSS in late 1999.

[Clippy]

Absolutely agree. Why do they spend all that money on the website when CEEFAX was perfectly adequate.

They have probably re-invested the money saved on Natasha Kaplinsky's make up, now that she has moved to five, into re-designing the website.