Mimi wrote:
It looks fine to me, and it looks less cluttered. Stop resisting change, grandads
Cheeky.
Thing is, designing stuff like this is my job, and the BBC appears to be exactly half-way between totally clueless and really good. Actually, it appears to be running back and forth between the two.
The BBC home page kind of shows this in a more obvious light: the 'widgetisation' of content and personalisation now available is great, but the design is just utterly dreadful, grabbing hold of a look-and-feel that won't be here in a year or two, and creating content where text sizes are stupidly large.
With the news page, the '2.0' thing has presumably made the BBC go for the subtler colour scheme, and this largely works. However, the light key lines now make content areas less distinct, and the margin settings in the 'around' area are just stupid (there's actually a larger margin between parent heading and child content than between each link and the
following heading.
On the plus side, the news site is mostly there, and only needs a few changes that could be done with a quick bit of CSS editing. The BBC home page, on the other hand, is fundamentally broken from a design standpoint.