BBC Beta Site
BBC have showcased their new beta homepage today.
What do fellow FFFer’s think of it?
I quite like it. Interested to hear people’s thoughts.
Posted by Cookie on
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21st Sep 2011
11:25 am
Bit messy…
21st Sep 2011
1:09 pm
Smart, functional, a lot to take in. I like the ‘find out more’ page with demo’s of each section. Good to see they keep progressing – doesn’t seem like long since the last re-jig? Any info on who’s behind it this time?
21st Sep 2011
1:23 pm
I like the general idea but it feels busy or messy as Samuel put it. It’s as if the project has been lead by a negative space fearing marketing person who demands everything be “above the fold” and less scrolling.
But like I say the idea is there we’ll see how things go.
21st Sep 2011
1:27 pm
Love the bouncy second hand on the clock!
21st Sep 2011
1:33 pm
Seems like its made for touch screens and such. Not sure it’s cool to browser around using a “regular” mouse keyboard screen combo.
Then again i dont have a tablet to try it so this is speculative.
Anyone with a tablet around ? xD
21st Sep 2011
2:56 pm
Pretty nice aside from the huge Arial. The bigger it gets, the uglier it gets.
21st Sep 2011
3:04 pm
@ Ugo
You’re right it fits (almost) perfectly on an iPad screen and seems to suit the device better than a large display.
21st Sep 2011
4:23 pm
Why don’t they have a collated design for all of their platforms so there is fluid navigation throughout? Seems obvious, but in reality must be a nightmare to conduct.
21st Sep 2011
10:57 pm
…not what I’m seeing. All I get is the insanely ugly current page.
from the thumbnail you provide, I think it looks quite good.
22nd Sep 2011
2:26 pm
The old website was trying to do too much. Whereas the beta offers a more discovery led approach, whilst making the content easily digestible and engaging.
24th Sep 2011
10:33 am
I don’t think it works. I was relatively impressed when I first visited the site, but I found myself just playing with stuff rather than engaging with content. There is not enough definition between article types within the image laden scrolling panel and find the faded areas to the left and right to be distracting.
The previous iteration of the BBC site did a great job at seperating out content types – news, entertainment, sport etc but this new beta version just seems to lump everything together. In addition the images dominate over the text headlines, but sadly the images dont explain enough about each story.
And the arrows are far too big.
28th Sep 2011
5:19 pm
I like the principle but the eye gets lost in it. TBH I think it is missing a few gradients or dropshadows! I normally would never say that but it all feels a bit flat – not much depth to it so you don’t get guided aroud the page.