The Newsroom

BBC News Rebrand - This Monday

New look BBC News output from Monday (January 2008)

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Neil__
Hymagumba posted:
Am I the only person to be unable to use your website in firefox?


Nope, Pete. Same here.
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
Neil Green posted:
Hymagumba posted:
Am I the only person to be unable to use your website in firefox?


Nope, Pete. Same here.

Looks like the problem is down to some poor coding, and Internet Explorer being less strict in accepting it...
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tvnewsroom.co.uk%2Findex2.php

If you have the IE Tab Firefox extension installed you can view the site by using it.
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the eye
Poor Coding, don't you mean **** browser?
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mdtauk
The site is gradually sorting itself into CSS and Valid XHTML, I am working on that with them.
JO
Joe
the eye posted:
Poor Coding, don't you mean **** browser?

I hope you mean IE.

martinDTanderson posted:
The site is gradually sorting itself into CSS and Valid XHTML, I am working on that with them.

Erm, aren't you the one that designed and therefore built it?
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STV Today
I would also say that rather having that daft '10' which looks weak and transparent...why not have TEN O'CLOCK NEWS as the regions have written names and not numbers - would have been more consistent?
MD
mdtauk
Jugalug posted:
the eye posted:
Poor Coding, don't you mean **** browser?

I hope you mean IE.

martinDTanderson posted:
The site is gradually sorting itself into CSS and Valid XHTML, I am working on that with them.

Erm, aren't you the one that designed and therefore built it?


Yup I designed it 3 years ago, in tables, and it worked with the browsers out there at the time. I have since learnt DIVs and XHTML, and have been working on changing it, and will do the same eventually with The TV Room, other than those two huge sites, the other websites I have worked on have been XHTML Strict and Valid!
MI
michaelgrantchapman1
I thought that the whole idea of this whole rebranding excercise would be to have one consistent look across BBC News wether it is National or Regional ?

National sets have changed to tie in with the new look so it is going to look stupid and defeats the whole excercise if Regional sets don't change as well !

Couldn't all regions have at least the same matching desk ? Some regions stand up presenting, Some sit behind a desk, Some sit on a sofa etc not all co-ordinated then is it ?

Obviously regions would have their own backdrop but apart from that shouldn't the sets have a generic corporate look as part of this excercise ?

Another query is are all the regions going to have all the same matching theme music or is this not changing in the regions either ?
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NickyS Founding member
Anne MacKenzie Fan posted:
I would also say that rather having that daft '10' which looks weak and transparent...why not have TEN O'CLOCK NEWS as the regions have written names and not numbers - would have been more consistent?

Remember it is all now BBC News ...
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STV Today
NickyS posted:
Anne MacKenzie Fan posted:
I would also say that rather having that daft '10' which looks weak and transparent...why not have TEN O'CLOCK NEWS as the regions have written names and not numbers - would have been more consistent?

Remember it is all now BBC News ...


...if it means they get rid of that daft '10' shadow then I would be happy if it was just BBC News. Wink Sadly, the main ones that look daft are the flagship bulletins if the '10' is anything to go by.
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mdtauk
Any cream I think will go white, and blue, to red or grey, but other than that I don't think they can afford big changes...
JO
Joe
martinDTanderson posted:
Yup I designed it 3 years ago, in tables, and it worked with the browsers out there at the time. I have since learnt DIVs and XHTML, and have been working on changing it, and will do the same eventually with The TV Room, other than those two huge sites, the other websites I have worked on have been XHTML Strict and Valid!

Fair enough, good to see you going back and remaking it.

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