New BBC home
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- panacea0
UHmmm looks like some simple ass WP theme like:
http://www.arrastheme.com/
http://demo.arrastheme.com/But maybe that's what they're going for usability wise
- kingsteven0
@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
- CygnusZero40
Looks like any other news site. Just a complete mess with just crap everywhere.
- ETM0
Looks pretty much like
- see_thru0
It sucks....and it looks the same as it has for the past year. What's new about it?
- chrisRG0
I just realised they are back to the old one, what happened?
- Horp0
Presumably the fontery is so big becasue everyone's going to be looking at this stuff on little screens for the foreseeable future.
I'm not too keen though. Too much wingy-wangy.
- 74LEO0
So tired of them and their redesigns!
ugh!
- ETM0
Has everyone forgot about CSS and media queries? Can't they tweak font sizes and layouts for devices (device class, not per device) so I don't have to keep looking at these horrible sites on a larger monitor.
This corporate idea of throwing out desktops for tablets is ridiculous.