The header and footers are being pulled in on all new designs within bbc.co.uk to keep the standard throughout the site. I must agree that it doesn't quite work in this instance; if all new pages are to follow this format then it might be worth looking at how the news banner is incorporated better into this design format.
Robin ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 March 2008 16:00 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site The double mastheads (black then red) take up too much space and push the main chunk of the site too far down the page. Apart from that, a very nice design. Centred and wider.... at last. /applause/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher Woods Sent: 31 March 2008 15:47 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site Me too.. I like the wider pages, good considering the increasing amount of widescreen users (msyelf included). However, the black up top is too large and an unnecessary waste of screen real estate. The BBC logo isn't even aligned with the BBC News logo, so it all looks off-kilter. Also, a slight, subtle columnisation would work nicely - just a slightly darker background colour for the "see also" column on the far right of the screen would be nice. Some aspects like the darker bgcolor for image captions is gone, which is a shame as it helped separate the main body text from the captions. Not everything in the old design needed getting rid of... Switchable stylesheets would be the win! ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 31 March 2008 15:19 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site Today! http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/03/refreshing_changes.html 300 comments already! On 31/03/2008, Matt Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: When did this go live?! The black bar at the top will have to grow on me... are there any plans to do anything else with that, other than a search box? ./Matt - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk<http://backstage.bbc.co.uk> discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
