bbc news website

[Spacecadet]

The BBC have changed the lay out of the news website

combined with only 3 hours insomniacle sleep last night, i thought i'd entered a parallel dimension

Thanks for the warning BBC!

[AtW]

I liked the old one. It would have been a better change if they put online BBC1/2/3 rather than just BBC24.

[HYpno27]

That new layout is tulipe

[realityhack]

The BBC have changed the lay out of the news website

combined with only 3 hours insomniacle sleep last night, i thought i'd entered a parallel dimension

Thanks for the warning BBC!

Are you me?

Had hardly any sleep last night, went onto the Beeb's site this morning, found the same - also that their News24 streaming service was down.

It's all a bit surreal today - with a hell of a lot of work to do. Perhaps I can procrastinate until midday before I start to panic.

[Marina]

That new layout is tulipe

Yes, hard to put one's finger on. But the old layout/style looked compact and professional, whereas the new one has a dumbed-down "My Little Pony" baby look.

Wonder what RealityHack makes of it, as I gather that's his speciality. Maybe it _is_ more ergonomic etc, but all the same. Ugh!

[realityhack]

Don't know about that - the layout is simpler and the fonts have been dramatically improved. I think it's a lot more readable now. They don't need the double masthead though - they could incorporate the search in the red one and lose the black one.

[Moscow Mule]

As far as I can see the layout is the same as the old one, but with bigger fonts - the three columns have the same content as before which is nice. I prefer the thinner bbc header though (the grey one).

If you look at the root page it's gone all igoogle/web2.0 which is quite cool.

[Marina]

DUH! What a dizzy cow I am. There's me saying "Wonder what RealityHack makes of it", when his post was the one right before mine!

[realityhack]

I still think the Beeb suffers from info blindness on the main page - trying to impart way too much info on the first page - they need to take a close look at their IA, do some user scenario testing, content analysis and 'funnel' people properly into the relevant content.

Having a LH menu split between regions and subjects clouds it a little, the whole thing needs reshuffling - I don't think they've cracked it yet - too many competing CTAs on the one page, not enough distinction between them.

[realityhack]

As far as I can see the layout is the same as the old one, but with bigger fonts - the three columns have the same content as before which is nice. I prefer the thinner bbc header though (the grey one).

If you look at the root page it's gone all igoogle/web2.0 which is quite cool.

Mostly correct - they have changed it a little - but used fonts with wider punch-widths and leading.
Loads of wasted space on the root page... seen that a while ago - plenty of room for improvement.