[BNM] new BBC website design

[Ali]

I am in two minds about it. A nice looking page.

I like the modernity of being able to customise the page but it gets me 
thinking that when customising pages one wants more choice of content, as 
you get from the new breed of news/feed/widget aggregating pages like 
Netvibes, newsvine et al. Can't see the beeb's page competing with that at 
all - so what's the point?

Also a bit gutting to be flicked back to the old 'barley' layout whenever an 
item is clicked...hold on I see the new wider, centre aligned table(!) 
layout for news has just replaced this - still a bit of a disjointed feel 
about the transition between the homepage and news pages with no immediate 
route back to your carefully customised homepage (bar the old click the logo 
trick) - netvibes do a cool including the target content in the shell of 
your homepage thing that the beeb might do well to give more than a nod 
to....

Ali

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ivan Pope" <ivan.pope at gmail.com>
To: "Brighton New Media" <bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 3:14 PM
Subject: [BNM] new BBC website design


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