How *not* to design a website

[fluffymark]

Oh dear. The BBC have 'improved' their news website, by destroying most of the best features. I used to love browsing around the BBC news site, which was quick, easy, and there was lots of cross links to different related stories on the right of the screen. This week they updated it - it's noticeably slower for a start. And the dozens of links that used to appear on the right have been cut down severely, making casual browsing next to impossible, and its difficult to find anything except the 'top' stories in each category.

Comments

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm glad it's not just me that much preferred the older version :(

The same thing happened with the New Scientist site a while ago; the previous version was a lot more readable and accessible (and at the same time they changed that, they also stopped having some of their features articles online, and now only have news articles, which made it doubly annoying).

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Or, how to design a website so you only see what you're told to see...

[fluffymark]

I decided to give it a chance - just in case it was just having a bad day, or they'd add a few other new features to make up for those they'd removed. But after a few days constantly being frustrated by the site, I've not got used to it, and can see its not going to happen. Grrrr. Pity, as I'd not managedto find any other news site that came close to being as good as it used to be.

Maybe they should have one of their little polls on their website on 'Is the new site better or just a disaster?'. I know which I'd vote for. :)

[fluffymark]

Hmmmmm. It's the end of the freedom of the press, i tell you! :)

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

Eurgh. Me too.
Vast acres of useless white space, no information about any of the stories apart from the (often unrepresentative) headline, and just *blah*. It also looks a lot more like the CNN site (which I look at occasionally in a kind of 'different perspectives' type way), apart from being less usable.
And the default font is nearly invisible. :(

[fluffymark]

I bet its a conspiracy so I spend less time in the office surfing the news website and therefore more time writing this damn thesis. Grrrrrrrrr. I'll take more coffee breaks methinks. :)

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

*looks*

*is not impressed*

You're right, it's way inferior to what it was like before.

Grrrrrrr. :(