BBC News website design

Further to the recent mock on the BBC News website Click here, I've taken into account people's comments, so here is my slightly edited version:

EDIT: Made 'Explore the BBC' header smaller at top.

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/3306/bbcnewswebsitemockv2fq7.jpg

Is that small enough?

No, see, the very top bar is still too big.

EDIT: I was thinking more like this (extremely quick attempt, make allowances for the roughness of it please!). Obviously it still looks awful, but I think it looks slightly better.



Click for bigger.

Oh, and don't edit the first post with updates, leave the old versions up so we can see progress.

Here's my take

http://img29.picoodle.com/img/img29/4/6/26/f_bbcnews24m_ba4f9a1.jpg

Shapes, I think that the BBC News header, which is greyish, is very dull and bland. Also, the orange is terrible. Very boring and dull. Also, no link to watch NC live on the homepage.

Also, I think Jugalug's is very good, apart from the BBC News logo being a little bit too big and, again, there's no direct link on the homepage to watch the NC live.

I know, I said it was rough.

Mine was rough as well - took me about 10 minutes.