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CW

Charlie Wells Moderator 29 January 2009 7:25pm

benjy posted:

There's also been a slight tweak to the header of the homepage. It's been slightly reduced in height and the search box changed to match the one on all the other pages.

I guess coinciding with the announcement to drop external searching as the search options have also disappeared.

PA

paul_hadley 29 January 2009 11:27pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rednoseday/

GM

nodnirG kraM 30 January 2009 1:37pm

On 11th January, dbl posted:

BBC iPlayer's HQ version has had it's quality reduced from 800kbps to 512kbps, it's noticeable in busy/fast moving scenes.

Is this still the case? Reading a six-week old quote from the iPlayer blog:
Right now BBC iPlayer Desktop makes use of the same 800Kbps H.264 content that's used for our High Quality streaming option. We're working on improving that, to provide 1500Kbps H.264 content that should be close to television quality. So, starting around February, we expect to deliver substantially better quality for downloads (these 1500Kbps streams will also be offered for streaming, providing near TV quality in iPlayer).

NE

nevermind 30 January 2009 8:02pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/ (?)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/foi/

CW

Charlie Wells Moderator 31 January 2009 10:27am

It looks like the new weather website will be making it's permanent home on the news subdomain. I've noticed that some of the links which were disabled now work such as...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/hi/news/default.stm (Weather News)
...I assume the new weather site will also allow the converted regional sites (eg. Bristol) to use the new wide template for the weather page as currently they're using the old format.

RS

Reg Shaw 31 January 2009 2:19pm

Peel back the URL a little:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/

ST

stevep 2 February 2009 9:26am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/

GM

nodnirG kraM 2 February 2009 9:49am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/ was due to launch today. I'm assuming it hasn't due to the adverse weather.

HO

House 2 February 2009 10:10am

I quite like the latest news box about the weather today on the BBC Homepage, taking up the area usually used advertising shows etc.

PE

Pete Founding member 2 February 2009 10:57am

On a day when, remember WE ARE ALL TRAPPED IN OUR HOMES, can you imaigne the whinging of the old farts if they changed the weather site today?

They're already enraged and threatening to change their homepage (oooh) because they got rid of that useless search engine.

CW

Charlie Wells Moderator 2 February 2009 6:04pm

Hymagumba posted:

On a day when, remember WE ARE ALL TRAPPED IN OUR HOMES, can you imaigne the whinging of the old farts if they changed the weather site today?

They're already enraged and threatening to change their homepage (oooh) because they got rid of that useless search engine.

I see the weather graphics which did say "New look 2nd Feb" have reverted to "Try it now". I guess it's been delayed until better weather.

RS

Reg Shaw 2 February 2009 7:48pm

Charlie Wells posted:

Hymagumba posted:

On a day when, remember WE ARE ALL TRAPPED IN OUR HOMES, can you imaigne the whinging of the old farts if they changed the weather site today?

They're already enraged and threatening to change their homepage (oooh) because they got rid of that useless search engine.

I see the weather graphics which did say "New look 2nd Feb" have reverted to "Try it now". I guess it's been delayed until better weather.

More like until the staff involved in the switch can get into work ...

(September 2006)