BBC new home page - beta

Posted on December 11, 2007
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iBBC? BBC Homepage? MyBBC? MYBEEB?

Who knows but the new personalised, customisable BBC homepage looks interesting. Very chunky, very user-friendly, very AJAX packed and very clean.

However, as Rico asked, why fix it to 1024? Surely the Beeb out of any website should cater for all, including the 800 x 600 users?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/beta/

Comments

4 Responses to “BBC new home page - beta”

  1. Rico on December 13th, 2007 5:34 pm

    Why goddammit? Whhhhhhhyyyyyy? Suppose the scale of the site might be the off putting factor when deciding on it’s flexibility. But still, from the homepage design, it looks like it’s a site that wouldn’t be that difficult to ‘flexify’. I might borrow the source and try it. However the CSS is a one liner!

    Vast improvement though.

  2. Ian on December 13th, 2007 8:27 pm

    Haha why not send them a video of it working - flexification in action but not the source. See what they offer you for a perfect solution they just need to upload!

  3. Richard on December 13th, 2007 9:23 pm

    Well, I reckon they will have thought about a lot about it. It’s a big decision to fix a site as popular as the BBC to 1024. They have spent a lot of time thinking about functionality. There’s something new everywhere you look. And it even has good accessible no-javascript fallbacks.

    I might try it over Christmas. Got a few new tricks up my sleeve :)

    Haha, the more I look at it, the more impressed I get. Well done BBC. I would have loved to have been part of that project.

  4. Ian on December 13th, 2007 10:34 pm

    Something new eh….Ianteresting. Keep me posted.

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