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Anyone else seen the new official BBC website?
As sites go it's fairly poor. For a show like doctor who, that brings the BBC so much money in, it's a disgrace to see it being so poorly executed.
Don't get me wrong, the content is there and provides the user with a lot of information however, the design is just plain lazy and generic.
Any thoughts?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006q2x0
As sites go it's fairly poor. For a show like doctor who, that brings the BBC so much money in, it's a disgrace to see it being so poorly executed.
Don't get me wrong, the content is there and provides the user with a lot of information however, the design is just plain lazy and generic.
Any thoughts?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006q2x0
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Although, I much preferred the series 1-4 website for it's practicality, it was simple and everything could be found easily and where you'd expect it.
Eta- I don't find the red "one" box that bad. It would be better if it said BBC one imo but I hadn't really noticed it until it was pointed out.
The more I use it, the more I like it actually
Oh my word, you're right.
It's worse than the BBC America one! Much worse!
Now it is essentially the same as every other website on a BBC programme. Including ones which have only ever had two episodes.
This is an absolute disgrace.
Who do I complain to?
Edit: Everyone do the opinion survey and complain, please!
Fans provide plenty of excellent web content for Doctor Who. The official site doesn't need to be anything spectacular.
The site seriously needs a update all jazzed up where the music just hits you as you get onto the page.
It certainly didn't look like this last week.
Couldn't disagree with you more.
It is in no way a benefit when it looks poorly and lazily made.
There used to be a big animated "headline" which advertised the latest important news or episode. Now there is just an iPlayer link and "Adventures in Time and Space" written in small font at the top.
There used to be a nice blue background. Now the blue background stops not even halfway down the page only to be replaced with a black background everywhere else.
Everything used to be neatly laid out with good visuals. Now the page is made up of walls of text, blue hyperlinks, and some randomly places photographs.
Look at the fourth dimension page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0103y2x/features/day-of-the-moon-the-fourth-dimension
I seem to remember that looking much better than it does there.
And what is the need for having a large twitter feed taking up a lot of the page?
Look at the series 1-4 site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/
Can you honestly say that the new site is better than that one?
I just feel that the new website is lazily made, and it is sad that the BBC has decided to destroy a perfectly good website in order to make things easier/save money.
I am appalled.
Are you sure? I thought it changed a few weeks ago. I didn't make a note, though, I just noticed that that whooshing noise as a Cyberman (or whatever) vanished had gone. I could be wrong.
For me anyway, the old layout was there the last time I visited which was early last week.
Yes. Aesthetically, the old site used too many clashing colours, inconsistent font styles, and custom graphics for all sorts of headings and sub-headings, all of which need to be created individually.
Technically, the old pages are at least twice as heavy, meaning longer load times. The dependence on images and Flash for text content means that the site is not suitable for those with visual impairments, and this is made worse by the non-semantic markup which cannot be easily navigated by screen-readers.
It's also a very fixed-size layout, and won't render as well on display requiring larger text sizes, such as TV screens, or on smaller display sizes, such as mobile phones. Try it on a mobile browser - you won't find the older site very usable.
I'm not a fan of the teal-on-blue colour scheme, and the background of the various page elements need work. But overall, it's a functional and navigable site.
There's a reason why having a consistent style is a good thing - because a lot of the hard decisions have already been made.
This is virtually all that is left of the OLD old site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/archive.shtml
edit: found the 2007 Advent Calendar ::D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/index_advent2007.shtml