The question is - how best to avoid looking at the black bar? Adblock? Some CSS thingy? Greasemonkey?
Tom On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Robin Cramp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The header and footers are being pulled in on all new designs within > bbc.co.uk to keep the standard throughout the site. > > I must agree that it doesn't quite work in this instance; if all new pages > are to follow this format then it might be worth looking at how the news > banner is incorporated better into this design format. > > > > Robin > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 31 March 2008 16:00 > > > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site > > > > > > The double mastheads (black then red) take up too much space and push the > main chunk of the site too far down the page. Apart from that, a very nice > design. Centred and wider…. at last. /applause/ > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher Woods > Sent: 31 March 2008 15:47 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site > > > > Me too.. > > > > I like the wider pages, good considering the increasing amount of widescreen > users (msyelf included). > > > > However, the black up top is too large and an unnecessary waste of screen > real estate. The BBC logo isn't even aligned with the BBC News logo, so it > all looks off-kilter. Also, a slight, subtle columnisation would work nicely > - just a slightly darker background colour for the "see also" column on the > far right of the screen would be nice. Some aspects like the darker bgcolor > for image captions is gone, which is a shame as it helped separate the main > body text from the captions. > > > > Not everything in the old design needed getting rid of... > > > > Switchable stylesheets would be the win! > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth > Sent: 31 March 2008 15:19 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site > > Today! > > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/03/refreshing_changes.html > > 300 comments already! > > > > On 31/03/2008, Matt Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When did this go live?! The black bar at the top will have to grow on > me... are there any plans to do anything else with that, other than a > search box? > > ./Matt > - > 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 - 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]/
