Wow, what a great job! First impressions are fantastic - clean, easy on the
eye, very nice purple colour scheme and I very much like the rollover
effects (the customisation aspect is nice, too).
I'm glad to see that the clock has finally made a comeback - I remember a
discussion about that a while ago (I think it was on here, wasn't it?) when
the Flash-based BBC clocks were discussed, and someone at the beeb asked if
they could use them for a forthcoming BBC project or something like that? I
can't be bothered to go looking through my archives now to verify my poor
memory, but nevertheless good job to all involved!
The only things that need sorting are the slightly chubby 'headers' for the
hideable sections, make them a little less tall, 10-15px less would do it I
think. Also, no mouseover effects for the four showcase buttons underneath
the main image?
Ooo, love the effects when you customise stuff... All the swishing and
swooping and modal dialogs when you set your location and BBC News version -
I'm such a mug for a bit of web 2 goodness sometimes!
I'm wondering how it degrades in older browsers though... Trying it on my
WinMo 5 phone, at least it renders as a full single column by default in
Pocket IE - LOADs of scrolling through images and layout stuff, but at least
all the content is easily readable. None of the edit links work for
customising the widgets, I'm guessing (hoping) a mobile-friendly version of
the BBC homepage is coming soon - I'd be sorely tempted to change my
homepage to the BBC frontpage for my phone if a 3G-, QVGA-friendly version
was designed.
Looking good for starters though! I don't know if there's anyone at the Beeb
who is involved (or knows someone who's involved) in the frontpage redesign,
but it's looking very promising and I'm quite pleased.
I love the return of the clock, promise me that'll never go! :D
