New BBC home
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@panacea It's the BBC, so it's never a NEW homepage, it's the culmination of 3 years of hard work by a few talented designers and thousands of idiots... In this case, marks the site-wide launch of the GEL (Global Experience Language) design system (http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel) which although a beautiful thing in itself, somehow the BBC have managed spread out over 2 years...
The first site to use the GEL was the Dr Who site which launched April 2010. One year later and most suppliers were still being asked to develop using the old GVL2 (Global Vagina Language?).
They finally managed to upgrade their programme listings system (can't remember the specific 3 letter acronym) in November 2011... which had the effect of making every bit of programme specific digital content developed in the previous year and a half obsolete... OH WELL! DEERRPPP ... Nice homepage.
- still looks like a simple ass Wordpress Magazine theme to mepanacea
- yeah, it's a bit shitty looking tbh. it's like they walked in with the wireframes and someone told them "yes exactly like that!"kingsteven
- although, it could work on a tablet.kingsteven