Re: [backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Felicia C
Random comment: Whilst the new site design makes everything alot more clean and tidy, like some of the visitors, I am having difficulty reading the content (some said that it was because of too much 'breathing space'?) And for whatever reason, the sectional content (not the left navigation) doesn'

[backstage] Following Over the Air this weekend...

2008-03-31 Thread Ian Forrester
http://opensocialapis.blogspot.com/2008/03/opensocial-hackathon-in-london-6th-of.html Good news: some OpenSocial folks are headed to London, so anyone and everyone is welcome to come learn about OpenSocial and get your hands into some code. On Sunday, the 6th of April, we'd like to invite all of

Re: [backstage] New BBC News site "Get the minutes and seconds for weighted puffs"

2008-03-31 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 31/03/2008, Tom Hannen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The question is - how best to avoid looking at the black bar? > Adblock? Some CSS thingy? Greasemonkey? You can block the international adverts with Adblock plus on the URLS in http://m1.2mdn.net/ I love some of the comments in the page.

Re: [backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Jason Cartwright
#blq-mast,#blq-accesslinks {display:none} .centerbody {padding-top:10px !important} In FF's userContent.css works for me, then I can see all the local stuff better. J On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Tom Hannen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The question is - how best to avoid looking at the blac

Re: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 31/03/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/ > Try accessing it from outside

[backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Tom Hannen
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 throu

RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Robin Cramp
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 bett

RE: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only?

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Bowden
Ah well, as some of my colleagues in Nations and Regions are very keen on saying "most activities and purchases take place within a dozen miles from home". The average commute is 13 miles, and that's about the furthest people tend to go (see "Average distance normall

Re: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Waring
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:50:53PM +0100, Matt Barber 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? Launched today, at least for me. 427 validation errors as well, which is quite

RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread zen16083
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 W

RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Christopher Woods
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 sligh

RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/refreshing_changes_1.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/bbc_ux_20.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Barber Sent: 31 March 2008 14:51 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Sub

Re: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Brian Butterworth
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

[backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Matt Barber
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_lis

Re: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only?

2008-03-31 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 31/03/2008, Andrew Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes, there is always a certain problem with the need to provide local and > regional data from a satellite that covers the whole of the EU! > I would personally welcome the effort of putting a zoomable, animated > weather system on F

RE: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only? // BBC 7i?

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Bowden
> Currently the service broadcasts blocks of comedy and science fiction ("7th > Dimension"), as well as children's ("CBeebies") and drama. It would be nice if these > blocks could be rebroadcast all day in an interactive loop, so you could come to BBC 7 > during the CBeebies block, press RED an

RE: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only?

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Bowden
Yes, there is always a certain problem with the need to provide local and regional data from a satellite that covers the whole of the EU! I would personally welcome the effort of putting a zoomable, animated weather system on Freesat. It would be a very BBC thing to do, of co

Re: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only? // BBC 7i?

2008-03-31 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 31/03/2008, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 31/03/2008, Andrew Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Would anyone use it is the question - which is an important question in > > a bandwidth contstrained enviroment. > > > Whilst I remember, I can't help thinking tha

Re: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only?

2008-03-31 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 31/03/2008, Andrew Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'll really pleased to hear that there is a good chance > > that the text and interactive services on Freesat are going to be HD. > > The HD abilities of the MHEG profile on Freesat are rather nice. But we > won't be using them yet. > >

Re: [backstage] News 24 moves to Astra 2A...

2008-03-31 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 31/03/2008, Andrew Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now, given all the talk of cross-format rights, international > rights, the 2D > > footprint etc... How does the Beeb think that they're going to be able > to offer > > rightsholders geographical certainty as to where footage of sp

RE: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only?

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Bowden
> I'll really pleased to hear that there is a good chance > that the text and interactive services on Freesat are going to be HD. The HD abilities of the MHEG profile on Freesat are rather nice. But we won't be using them yet. > I'm wondering if they will be animated, like little vignets

RE: [backstage] News 24 moves to Astra 2A...

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Bowden
> Now, given all the talk of cross-format rights, international rights, the 2D > footprint etc... How does the Beeb think that they're going to be able to offer > rightsholders geographical certainty as to where footage of sporting events, football, > the F1 - the Olympics also comes to mi