two more thoughts. 1) I need to be able to hide radio stations I don't listen to. I only ever listen to 1Xtra, R4, 5L and BBC7. I don't need to be able to see them all, as a personalising user.
2) There needs to be a massive "*G*U*E*S*T****M*O*D*E****" button at the top of the page that restore everything to defaults, without erasing the settings. This is vital, as a personalized page is no help to anyone else you might share the computer with. 3) Would be great to have a "podcasts" box. On 18/12/2007, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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: [email protected] > > 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/[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/[email protected]/ > > > > > > -- > Please email me back if you need any more help. > > Brian Butterworth > http://www.ukfree.tv -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
