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Small tweak to BBC News website

(June 2008)

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chris
G4 posted:
chris posted:
G4 posted:
That is hideous. The BBC logo and the word "NEWS" aren't even aligned, and the BBC logo on the header is too large to be used for the effect.


Bit harsh, G4. The BBC's current attempt is hideous. That just looks slightly odd...but then again, I have no idea what would look better either. Confused

I'm talking about the BBC's current attempt.


Oh. I just assumed with this being the mocks foum you'd be commenting on the mock. Silly me.
JO
Jonny
BBC LDN posted:
mightynine posted:
The problem is that black bar on top is just too big - it should just slightly bigger that that search box - there's just too much dead space in there. Then, with a smaller BBC logo in the black part, you could probably have another BBC News in the red part and it would look ok.

My two cents.


Couldn't agree more - there's been no problem with having two BBC logos in the header area up until now, so I don't see why a supposedly improved BBC website should now introduce that problem.

The top header bar is just so poorly designed that one wonders what sort of decision making process managed to produce it. The logo is needlessly big; the accessibility etc links are for some reason squashed in above the logo, despite there being acres of empty space to the right, and the search box floats randomly somewhere in the middle.

It seems like a product of such bad design that one wonders why the website team haven't simply changed the black header bar, rather than forcing website sections like News and Sport to replace their web branding with compromised versions.

At a time when the BBC News brand in particular is being pushed and marketed so hard, it's fairly absurd to be showing on the website a version of the logo that doesn't equate to any other configuration of the BBC News brand currently in use.

I agree too, so why do they not just use the banner currently used on the yet to be revamped BBC sites? It contains no less information than the revamped sites' banner and accessibility options could be placed to the right of the search box. Plus it looks a lot neater, with no dead space.
MI
mightynine
I think a header along these lines would work great (from BBC World News' site, accessed in the USA)
http://i27.tinypic.com/x24490.jpg

Make that box black, slap the search box in there, have your "Explore the BBC" in there too, and you're set.
JO
Joe
That's much better, the current one is far too big to look nice.
AC
aconnell
mightynine posted:
I think a header along these lines would work great (from BBC World News' site, accessed in the USA)
http://i27.tinypic.com/x24490.jpg

Make that box black, slap the search box in there, have your "Explore the BBC" in there too, and you're set.


I've taken into account your opinion on what the home page should look like (only a minor edit). Click here for mock thread

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