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BBC News Rebrand - This Monday

New look BBC News output from Monday (January 2008)

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MW
Mike W
Manxy posted:
Is anyone else spending their night pressing F5, cause I am. I'm going to give it till half past then i'm going to bed.

It's 3 O'clock.
RH
richard h
still nothing
MD
mdtauk
It could be 3am GMT, not BST
RH
richard h
very good point Martin
MW
Mike W
richard h posted:
very good point Martin
7 Mins till 3.00AM GMT, 4 .00AM BST
RH
richard h
still nothing
RH
richard h
not updated yet for this hour
MQ
Mr Q
You might want to check out one of the latest stories on the site... Wink Looks good to me!
BB
BBC LDN
Eesh... the header just looks wrong with the giant BBC logo, and a BBC News logo right beneath it. Bleugh.

The graphic to the right looks promising as a sneaky-peeky towards the new look for BBC News, but I really dislike the direction they've taken with the implementation of the new top-level header bar - it's far less practical, useful and flexible than the design it replaces. Yuk yuk yuk.
EY
the eye
Hmm I think they need to change the font because it looks old, maybe just to Arial. The left nav looks good but I don't like the bits on the right... and the 'watch live' is in the wrong place and logos need to be sorted.
MQ
Mr Q
BBC LDN posted:
Eesh... the header just looks wrong with the giant BBC logo, and a BBC News logo right beneath it. Bleugh.

I agree - that did strike me as rather ill-conceived. And other parts of the layout seem a little messy too - the right hand sidebar on the stories doesn't seem as nice as it could be.

But I really like the graphic element to the right - I can see something in that which reminds me of a previous look of One New in New Zealand. Overall (based on what we can see so far), it looks like a much fresher look for the BBC News website, and a welcome update. I look forward to seeing more of it rolled out.
BE
Ben Founding member
Well it was already mentioned that the BBC News logo would appear underneath the BBC logo so that's not a surprise but it looks really poor - especially as they don't even line up. Not really sure overall because only a few pages up so far, looks a little bare but thats probably just the wider spacing making it look that way.

The new sport layout seems a little bit better, the BBC Sport logo doesn't clash as much.

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