BBC News website redesign

The BBC News front page has been redesigned. I wonder if they’ll start posting stories with paragraphs of more than one sentence now, or if they’ll still write like we’re all idiots.

Hmm… actually, it’s not much of a redesign. They’ve widened the page (wait for the cries from people still running 800x600 screens… both of them), added white space, and made the banner neater. Looks nicer, though.

[update: they didn’t test the new front page on an iPhone, then?]

2 Comments

Ah, so it’s not just an artefact of using Webkit then! Synchronicity.

“wait for the cries from people still running 800x600 screens”

Do me a favour! You may want a work of art from a news site, I want something functional. I don’t want to have to have a HUGE window just to read the news. And on a laptop (most of which are 1024x768, and will remain so as the pixel size can’t get smaller and retain readibility) you have to maximise the Beeb news web site now. I don’t want a web browser to take over my desktop.

Haven’t the Been heard of CSS layout and flexible column size?

Leave a comment

what will you say?


Recently Elsewhere

Monthly Archives

Recent Comments

  • I can’t be along in thinking that Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on SNL makes a more convincing vice presidential candidate than Sarah Palin herself… ...