I think, from what they said when they introced it, that it appears on
every
BBC News page apart from the front page (which has the ticker anyway).
I'll be impressed if they managed to get it on to every page. More likely is that it can be made to appear on all the pages published since the last redesign - as they will have the necessary SSI inside the code.
Contrary to popular belief, most BBC pages are static. So unless you already have an SSI in the right place, you would have to republish every page you wanted to include a new element on.
I think, from what they said when they introced it, that it appears on
every
BBC News page apart from the front page (which has the ticker anyway).
I'll be impressed if they managed to get it on to every page. More likely is that it can be made to appear on all the pages published since the last redesign - as they will have the necessary SSI inside the code.
Contrary to popular belief, most BBC pages are static. So unless you already have an SSI in the right place, you would have to republish every page you wanted to include a new element on.
why they don't just make a proper graphic with a space for the header text in it is beyond me although i suspect that the CMS behind the news site might have some to do with it.
A new(ish) special report menu page has been launched for "The Downturn", along with a truly horrible header layout.
The page does seem very busy, it looks like someone was fighting against the grid layout to get everything on the page.
I had the design philosophy behind Persian explained to me some time back, and I was quite sceptical about 'don't be afraid of whitespace' and 'give the content room to breath'. But the downturn page is probably a good example of what happens when you don't.
If they dropped the vertical navigation and let the content use the full width then it would look better - rather than just sticking in a new column into the space gained from moving to 1024 wide. The Iran index is quite content heavy, but the use of the full 1024 width makes it easier on the eye.
Problem is that these sort of layout changes involve creating new grids, which requires lots of development effort in CPS. Even the World Service Topcat system with its gridbuilder module (as used by Persian) still requires a lot of regression testing on any new grid. It's not unknown for an existing module to do something strange when dropped into into a cell that has a different size and position to those its previously been used in.
The /radio section has now been converted to the wide layout...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ ...I'm not sure if I like it though, as now (at present at least) it requires an extra click to get to the radio station.
