Right... it's quite an improvement on what we had before. I love the clock, but it's very very retro. Would be nice if you could choose from the huge range of flash clocks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/testcards/ Using the page on this 1024x768 monitor.. it's a bit big and shouty IMHO. I'm all up for the text being large for users that need it, but it's comes over all massive (that's massive meaning bad, not massive meaning good). There's some things that are a bit weird. The Radio section has "now" and "next", but the TV one is for "on tonight". Not very consistent. Using IE7, when I click the triangle on the TV section, there is a white word "More" that scrolls across the weather box above each time. The "History" doesn't link the the BBC's history content, unlike "Science" which does. Not very consistent again. One more thing... do my settings follow me from machine to machine, as with iGoogle? And ... please... this is a bug report.. not critisism of the concept. On 18/12/2007, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks guys for the feedback, the homepage beta team are watching the > thread. > > btw did see the new world service home page - > http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/. Maybe not as clever but very > beautiful. > > Cheers, > > Ian Forrester > > This e-mail is: [ ] private; [ ] ask first; [ x ] bloggable > > Senior Producer, BBC Backstage > BC5 C3, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > p: +44 (0)2080083965 > m: +44 (0)7711913293 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Wales > Sent: 18 December 2007 14:07 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] New BBC customisable homepage > > To show my gratitude for this new beta page, I found some bugs: > > > In my rush to lose 'Sport' from the page, I clicked on the triangle > expose button at the left of the title bar, but found that it left the > heading there (don't know why I thought it would eliminate it, must be > my lack of experience at using these computer things). > > So then I clicked on 'Edit' -- nothing changed. Oo-er. > > 'Edit'. Nothing. 'Edit'. Nothing. > > 'Edit edit edit' Nothing nothing nothing. > > 'Triangle'. Sport window reopens, but now has a bunch of checkboxes at > the top. A-ha! > > So the bug is that 'Edit' should not do nothing at all when the content > of the panel is hidden, it should re-open the panel so that the > requested edit process can begin. > > Alternatively, when the panel body is hidden, it should hide or grey-out > the 'Edit' button so it doesn't offer the chance to be an apparently > non-functional control. > > (Also, you could save some real estate by switching 'Edit' to 'Cancel' > 'Save' in place when edit mode is active, perhaps.) > > %% > > Clicking 'Set your location' exposes a form that is partially obscured > by the big Sleigh/Twist/Garden/Tardis panel, so that the action buttons > cannot be read, and the typed input cannot be seen. (Firefox 2.0.0.11 > on Linux -- I can send screenshots if required.) > > %% > > The text in the 'Directory' at the bottom of the page spills over the > bottom of the obligatory round-cornered box onto the grey area below, > making the bottom rows of text pretty illegible. > > %% > > When clicking on the '?' by 'Blogs' when the Blogs heading is close to > the bottom edge of the screen, the pop-up box ought to appear above the > '?', so that its contents are actually visible. > > ## > > Meanwhile, since you asked, here are some requests for features: > > I'd like to be able to reorder sub-headings (such as news categories). > > I'd like to be able to exclude certain radio stations, and I'd like to > have more than one available local station, and I'd like to have a list > of locations that I can switch between for the whole page. > > Oh, and I'd like a pony (preferably one I didn't have to feed). > > Feed! An RSS feed of fixes and updates to the new page, too, I'd like, > please, thank you very much. > -- > Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
