BBC new home page – beta
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?
December 13th, 2007 at 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.
December 13th, 2007 at 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!
December 13th, 2007 at 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.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Something new eh….Ianteresting. Keep me posted.