BBC news website

dirtydog · 14 Jul 2010 at 08:44

It has changed today - what do you think?

My main gripe is that they have ditched Verdana, the most readable web font by far. I will miss it. An increasing number of websites are ditching Verdana and I don't think any of them look better for it.

Tefal · 14 Jul 2010 at 08:46

DD in hating change shocker.

Muffin` · 14 Jul 2010 at 08:47

Tefal said:
DD in hating change shocker.

I lol'd

I don't like how the BBC don't recognise Cheshire - my Crewe post code (that's over 30 miles away) gives me Liverpool news and weather :rolleyes:

Initial thoughts, looks 'cheap' as in two-bit websites that report random stuff, does anyone else know what I mean? Apart from that I’ll have to see how I get on throughout the day.

y00feh · 14 Jul 2010 at 08:48

Its alright. seems quite bland....

peter_hutson · 14 Jul 2010 at 08:50

Pants. Change for the sake of it. I'm going to give it a few weeks, but I may end up switching to an alternative site for me news.

dirtydog · 14 Jul 2010 at 08:51

Tefal said:
DD in hating change shocker.

I knew someone would say that. I embrace change when it is for the better

Change for the sake of it however, or which is worse than what went before, I do not. Like most rational people, I daresay.

J.B · 14 Jul 2010 at 08:51

I quite like it, it had been a very similiar layout for years.

robgmun · 14 Jul 2010 at 08:53

where the **** are the catagories??

lcg · 14 Jul 2010 at 08:54

dirtydog said:
It has changed today - what do you think?

My main gripe is that they have ditched Verdana, the most readable web font by far. I will miss it. An increasing number of websites are ditching Verdana and I don't think any of them look better for it.

Yeah, I agree with you. I much prefer Verdana. I agree with the blandness comment too. There's quite a bit of wasted space too.

I saw a preview image of the new design last week, and thought it looked better than the old design, but having seen it used, I think it's worse than the old design.

dirtydog · 14 Jul 2010 at 08:54

robgmun said:
where the **** are the catagories??

At the top.

Cosimo · 14 Jul 2010 at 08:56

Tefal said:
DD in hating change shocker.

Web site under threat from supremacist.

rodo · 14 Jul 2010 at 08:56

There's a touch of Reuters about some of the pages, don't you think?

anything I don't mind · 14 Jul 2010 at 08:59

Looks like it has been made with Drupal. How can the BBC which is state funded still find cash to be upgrading websites and starting up project canvas when they don't stop talking about cuts the whole time... strange.

Rich_L · 14 Jul 2010 at 08:59

I'm actually quite surprised - it must be a pretty good change if only the font is mentioned by DD

It looks like poop at the moment because the categories bar does not go all the way across the screen so there are gaps each side, looks very odd.

Also it sucks that the categories bar isn't on the side, on a netbook it means you now have to scroll up and down to change to a different section - not cool

Smit · 14 Jul 2010 at 09:02

Seems fine to me, the sport pages are still the old style though for me

Cosimo · 14 Jul 2010 at 09:04

Looks bland and messy. The news has been diluted. The evil empire advertising itself a little more and wasting more licence payers money on self promotion and meaningless changes.

alex24 · 14 Jul 2010 at 09:04

It looks like a poor effort, quite untidy now, and it isn't as readable. What you gonna do.

antijoke · 14 Jul 2010 at 09:06

Looks the same to me. :confused:

Sp00n · 14 Jul 2010 at 09:07

It's a nice update, still sticking with the same grid by the looks of it and I really like the clock.

Masterdog · 14 Jul 2010 at 09:08

Will probably get used to it, but I don't like it at the mo. You need to move around the page more than you did the old site. All the important stuff was clustered together.
Also don't like their increasing reliance on video - I suppose it's a good thing, but I'd like transcripts of video articles so I can read them at work.