Channel 4 Site Redesign
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- 23kon
I filtered this and couldnt see if someone had posted this up before or not.
I dont drop by the Ch4 site very ofter so I dont know how recent this change is.I friggin LOVE the new homepage!
Rather than trying to cram as much crap onto the homepage as many tv stations and portals do, they've stripped it right back and used more imagery than text.
Well done Ch4 for being brave and breaking the mould.
- GeorgesII0
no banners
thats a win
- mistermik0
its good.
I need Ch4 as client.- trust me u dontWeLoveNoise
- show off! name dropping! alert!
mistermik - lolWeLoveNoise
- Bluejam0
nicely done.
- kelpie0
yeah, I've been liking this for a while now - very C4
- mistermik0
oh is that your way of saying you down with yout and cutting it up?
- eh? what are you wittering on about man?kelpie
- "I've been liking this for a while now" ( a while as if its old news to you)mistermik
- your fresh, modern , hip manmistermik
- haha, it has been up a while - I don't have a tele so use tinternet catch up all the time ye see...kelpie
- ahh i seemistermik
- why haven't you got a tv?
gypo.mistermik - "I was there, playing daft punk to the rock kids at CBGB's, I was there..." etc etckelpie
- I'm an intellectual, innit? TV is for peasants...kelpie
- fuck i have 3. dumbassmistermik
- me not you.mistermik
- lolkelpie
- WeLoveNoise0
love the site but alot of the bottom section isnt very legible
- kelpie0
which bit do you mean WLN? I'm usually the first person to get stuck into site for illegibility but I'm not seeing it on this one...
- roundabout0
All I see is a redesigned front page, and it's in the same style as the old CH4 page. Where the new redesign again?
- Fariska0
It works pretty well. the tv listing device is very well done.
They are using flash as rendering layer, while the page is still HTML and accessible. Good Job.
- mistermik0
i think the choice of image at base causes the legibility. and have text over images and text within images
- kelpie0
it also changes colour depending on what they are featuring - a few weeks back when I last saw it the main feature was the new comedy thing about agents and the page was white. I like that ind of thing, me
- mistermik0
aye - could do a lot more
- cud do alot worse aswell
http://channelfour.c…WeLoveNoise
- cud do alot worse aswell
- WeLoveNoise0
- see what you mean. looks great on mac - therein lies the problem I feel.kelpie
- 23kon0
Sorry, didnt realise it had been round for a while.
Aye theyve done the same as the BBC did a while back - just launch a new homepage then the rest of the site will follow suit soon (i hope).
This new homepage has a stronger relationship with Ch4's onscreen 'skits n ads' look and feel now.
When I worked in Glasgow we did quite a bit of concept/spec work for Ch4. One of the things was creating an online portal for the Film4 channel. Lots of concept work but no work at the end.
(Im assuming we got paid for our time on it - or maybe not - the company went bust afterall lol).
We also did concept work for Forbidden Four. This was going to be a site which archived all the rude n naughty stuff thats late-night-ch4.
So we could do research for this project they sent us all the material. - That was loads of 'sexcetera'-stylee programs, erotic photography books and the like.
What a great week that was - being paid to "research" porn and erotica.
- elpaso0
http://www.channel4.com/tv-listi…
this page made me throw up a little
- christ thats even worse - can barely read anythingWeLoveNoise
- fucking garbage and runs like assfiesta
- kelpie0
hmm, yeah - I actually quite like the functionality and basics of that listing page, but they could do with displaying the schedule better - there aren't enough structural elements to unconfuse your eye there.
WLN, I reckon the whole problem with you is that they're using Trebuchet at a size that's not displaying well with windows font smoothing, as its been designed on a mac and they've not taken that into account. massive FAIL there C4, tut tut
- treb is notoriously tricky to get bang on due to its letter shapes. 'screen font' my arsekelpie
- lol prob right
actually starting to ask whether its not my machines cos i saw it a while back and it lookd fineWeLoveNoise
- WeLoveNoise0
fuck me - major fail on my part
just set my zoom to reset in firefox and displays fine now- LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO...
email C4 and apologisekelpie - haha
i'm too proud for thatWeLoveNoise
- LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO...
- creez0
home page: fancy stupid flash, what's the purpose if it fetch all subsequent pages with a classic html schema.
shite.
- kelpie0
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