ITV.com Discussion Thread

Nice addition to the Daybreak and Lorraine websites to have a 'News' feed on them, interesting to see if they will add this to the homepage.

Is the itv.com website loading extremely slow for anyone else recently?
I know its not my internet speed as all other websites are still loading as normal, but whenever I load any page at itv.com it just starts with a blank page for ages with the loading circle going round for at least 5 minutes before the page loads.

Just a couple of seconds for me like usual using 3G.

New ITV Player launched.

http://www.itv.com/presscentre/pressreleases/programmepressreleases/itvunveilsnewitvplayer/default.html

Beta here:

https://beta.itv.com/itvplayer/

I was expecting a radical new design when really it isn't that dissimilar to the current version. I am yet to enter my credit card details but some of the programs such as Stingray etc which you can pay for would interest me. I would like to have more confidence though in the actual video player before I start paying ITV.

Yeah, no HD yet still and it's very similar to the old one, but still an improvement.

Interesting the titlebar calls it "itvplayer" through the site, all lowercase...

How new is this?

www.itv.com/food

Must be nearly a year/2 years now

Really? It looks new.

There is a new design for websites emerging across a number of show sites that clearly use the same backend, but are highly customisable seemingly. Take a look:

http://www.itv.com/emmerdale/
http://www.itv.com/celebrityjuice/
http://www.itv.com/redorblack/
http://www.itv.com/essex/
http://www.itv.com/downtonabbey/
http://www.itv.com/imacelebrity/
http://www.itv.com/takemeout/
http://www.itv.com/thecube/

All using this new template. Notice identical navigation bars, etc.

However, some sites like TOWIE's use a live stream a la ITV News and ITV Sport, while others don't.

Some sites, like Emmerdale's are fairly complex while others, like Downton's, are very simple.

The main thing is this appears to be a new thing, unique looking sites using the same underlying code/adhering to a design language. I hope to see more and more sites converted to this style, any old or dated pages to be deleted and hopefully a new homepage to show it all off.

ITV.com is looking really good lately, when it all comes together the new ITV News, Sport and Player sites are really good. Now that it appears programme pages are migrating to a very capable system, I'm optimistic ITV.com will soon have finally turned a massive corner!

Yes, but many links on the site I click on a old style site comes up, like the contact us page which is in contrast to the current design is really poor. Glad ITV are making the effort on their websites but the ITV News "Feed" never seems to work on the Daybreak website, and some websites could do with some updating. Overall, the website has come a long way since the redesign and the ITV News site is clearly going from strength to strengh!

The Emmerdale site is very good. I expect I'm A Celebrity will follow a similar style with it being the same design.

Hope Coronation Street relaunches with this backend too.

Would be awesome if even Daybreak/This Morning followed suit, and ultimately every single programme site on ITV.com.