Following on from the fantastic redesign of the BBC homepage the entire BBC News website has had a nice revamp this morning.
There doesn’t appear to be any new functionality but the design looks pretty good.
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The press release is here.
looks good! any word on how much licence payers money was put to use on it?
They probably do it in house quite cost effectively. Money well spent if you ask me, the site is excellent.
The redesign is being heavily criticized by readers and they are right.
Characters are too large, too thin. Can’t resize fonts properly. Fixed width design. Layout is too wide. This redesign was not tested enough.
Nice design with a nice blend of new functionality – I want to know why they have used a table rather than a div on the News homepage for the main content, anybody know why?
…Actually rethinking my question; It’s probably to maintain columns if the style sheets are disabled + could be more efficient to develop with table layout with frequently changing content.
I think the design is up-to-scratch. However, I find that it is impossible to post comments. There seems to be a time-out or something that I haven’t come across on other sites.
But let’s not forget that the BBC is ultimately about – and should ultimately be about – one thing: creating and broadcasting programmes that are creative, original and different!
I like the new design, it is fresh, clean and easy to use. Navigation and accessibility are very important especially on the BBC website. This is a massive website.
Hi,
Can any body tell me please , what did they use to build it? is it Liferay, dupal like something? or any other opensource php kit? please help me knowin this.
Regards
Saqib
Saqib Agha, it was mentioned in a conference last year that they use the Zend Framework (http://www.zend.com/en/).
The conference was http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2008/london/speakers/
We have a nice free fix to the awful BBC news website, it requires Firefox, greasemonkey and the following script. It makes the ‘monstrous’ carbuncle of the new BBC news website look like the previous incarnation with a nice side menu bar, verdana font and it removes all the recent accretions. The greasemonkey script can be found by looking for the facebook site “The new BBC news website looks awful”