I totally disagree with the use of the ITV Font. To keep the website accessable to screen readers and the such (which I should imagine is important to ITV), it's essential to use text rather than images. Indeed the whole thing could be built in Flash, but standard HTML uses up less bandwidth and processing power.
I would avoid it like the plague if he used Verdana, FTR.
Right - because of the font?
Yeahp, after all. How it is presented counts for a lot of things in media today. That is why most people on this forum badger on about fonts when it comes to mock designs. And you can almost guarantee people would go up in uproar if he did use Verdana, right?
I totally disagree with the use of the ITV Font. To keep the website accessable to screen readers and the such (which I should imagine is important to ITV), it's essential to use text rather than images. Indeed the whole thing could be built in Flash, but standard HTML uses up less bandwidth and processing power.
There isn't much text on the site and an image generation script would automatically generate 'Echo' and 'Beach' etc in the ITV font.
Alternative versions would be available for Accessibility, using standard fonts.
It's possible to strike a balance between the two, using sIFR/an image generator script to make the headings, and leaving the rest to normal text like Arial/Helvetica (which I prefer anyway).
sIFR in particular is very accessible and lightweight enough to not be noticed.
I'm glad you've put the actual media player in the centre of the screen. I'm getting sick of having to look to the left when I watch a YouTube video, and to the right when viewing an iPlayer video. I don't sit at a wonky angle - I sit square on with the monitor directly facing it, and I expect 99% of people do the same!
I'm glad you've put the actual media player in the centre of the screen. I'm getting sick of having to look to the left when I watch a YouTube video, and to the right when viewing an iPlayer video. I don't sit at a wonky angle - I sit square on with the monitor directly facing it, and I expect 99% of people do the same!
BBC iPlayer screen is in the centre, when was the last time you checked?
The mocks not bad, far better than what they have now, and very iPlayer.