BBC News Redesign: Sneak Preview

[MarillionFan]

Well you seem to have ignored the constructive criticism on how to make your CUK mess look better so what good would that do.

Glad to see you trip hasn't dampened your spirit. BTW, there's a young lad in a wheelchair over there, see if you can let his handbrake off!

[minestrone]

The real problem with the BBC site is that it uses a total hybrid mess of technologies, design has never been the issue.

[minestrone]

The usual constructive criticism

Well you seem to have ignored the constructive criticism on how to make your CUK mess look better so what good would that do.

[MarillionFan]

It looks quite good.

I've been having some real problems with the BBC site. At one client site they use Wireless and the BBC site won't render in Internet Explorer 6, but will in Chrome (which is really wierd).

While at others the performance has just been bad.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Except that it loads about twenty times faster than either of them

Frack yeah. That irks me loads about those site as well as many blogs like GOT, OH and Guido's. Make's them nearly unusable. It's not as if I'm on a slow line, I'm on excess of 17M!

[NickFitz]

Looks like a cross between the Telegraph and Mail's websites.

Except that it loads about twenty times faster than either of them

[NickFitz]

That looks bloody terrible.

Did you do that nick?

The usual constructive criticism

[NickFitz]

Have they got rid of that new feature on the lead stories where it says 'Last update x minutes ago'

I found that really irritating. I'd go in see a new story, it would say 60 minutes ago, I'd go back in it would then say 15 minutes or 10 minutes. It kept changing and it wasnt consistent with when I last went there.

There was a JPG of some of the bits they expect it to have further down the line, but I didn't post that as it would breach their copyright (whereas I made the screenshots myself, so it's fair use). Some of the headlines on the mockup have NEW next to them, but the stories themselves just have the usual dateline.

I've just discovered that they seem to have left a cookie set - some of the pages on there are showing up in the new skin for me, even though I've finished the survey

[HairyArsedBloke]

Looks like a cross between the Telegraph and Mail's websites.

[minestrone]

That looks bloody terrible.

Did you do that nick?

[MarillionFan]

Have they got rid of that new feature on the lead stories where it says 'Last update x minutes ago'

I found that really irritating. I'd go in see a new story, it would say 60 minutes ago, I'd go back in it would then say 15 minutes or 10 minutes. It kept changing and it wasnt consistent with when I last went there.

[NickFitz]

I just got an email inviting me to take part in a BBC News survey about their forthcoming redesign. As part of the process I was able to see some current pages on the site using the new skin, so naturally I grabbed some screenshots for you all to voice your opinions on - click on the thumbnails to see the full-size version:

Front page



Story page



There will definitely be more changes or bits added before it goes live, but that should whet your appetite