BBC goes Fisher Price
The BBC website is one of the stalwarts of the Net for me; its been my homepage for absolutely ages because of its easy access to news, sport, TV and the myriad other things that the BBC has to offer.
Today, they’ve relaunched the homepage of the site. Apparently its been in beta development for quite some time and this final version is the result of lots of testing and tweaking. As you’ll see from the comments left on the blog announcing the change, it is not universally loved.
For myself, I’m not a fan so far. It may grow on me over time, but at the moment it very much seems a backward step; while the various modules can be turned on and off - so theoretically allowing you to create “your” BBC page - the design overwhelms the content and you’re left having to search for what you want. Yes, technically it’s very good (someone must be very proud of their coding skills) but it is not as usable as the old style homepage.
And it’s only the homepage that has been changed so far, which means that the rest of the site maintains the look it had before. It seems a little pointless just to be changing one page and not the rest but perhaps that’s a blessing in disguise; it will give the BBC a chance to re-think the new look and, even if they don’t go back to the old version, at least improve it considerably before it’s rolled out across the whole site.
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