http://mbvs.moonfruit.com/bbcweather

I've been working on a page or two showcasing the best of the Beeb's previous weather graphics system, which in various guises served them well for 20 years, and could have served for many more.

http://mbvs.moonfruit.com/bbcweather

I think most people would have to agree, the old system could do SO much more than what we now have to put up with.

Mark Boulton

Its is the best site ever I seen that be made by Moonfruit. Welldone!

Superb!

Interesting that the 'Yellow bar' style of maps was around in 1995. I didn't think it was introduced until later.

Thanks guys.

BTW Anybody who has been reading my posts on the BBC Weather Forecast Café (as "BizMark") may be interested to know that I've been barred posting on it.

Perhaps it's because some of my comments were a little too close to the bone for the BBC. Especially my post in which I comically (in a Rory Bremner type way) suggested what the business motives behind the change might have been.

See if you can find it in the top 5 posts as quick as you can. I'm sure it'll be deleted before long.

Yes, Moonfruit is a cool tool. Don't know where I'd be without it. I can't get anywhere with HTML - honestly, it's like trying to construct webpages using WordPerfect (for DOS) formatting codes - only much less structured. I strongly believe in the WYSIWYG movement and do not like the current trend of going back to text-based coding systems.

After all, you shouldn't have to be a programmer to be a website designer!

Brilliant! I agree, it's the best moonfruit site I've seen too. I think it would be much more valuable however if you were to include images from how the weather looks now. Then people who aren't used to seeing BBC forecasts can form an opinion too.

I must admit I have considered it, but every time I think about doing so I get depressed!

Next on my list of things 'to do' is to capture some earlier shots (i.e. colour magnetic era, and also a black-and-white example from 1968 I received recently where cloud was shown as an inverted triangle and rain as circles, the symbols used up till 1975).

Well yes some good points well made there really.

I'm certain the BBC would still maintain their new way of doing things is an improvement -- but it is difficult to see how.

Mind you the presenter you refer to as Peter Cockroft is in fact David Braine.

Peter Cockroft is at the bottom of page 1.

Thanks for putting me right on that. I was wondering, actually...