The new web page design.
Inconsistent design with main page "http://www.bbc.co.uk/" and other BBC pages. If you are going to 'rebrand' it is important to do this in a controlled and consistent way.
Excessive white space and line spacing results in an increase in the need to scroll with the mouse wheel or scroll bar at right. This is REALLY annoying and will probably be the main reason I go to other sites for news. I have better things to do than get RSI just reading a few news items.
Ridiculously sized mid-page graphic of world with a few other story links and a very poor colour contrast between the background and the text colour. In addition, the colour does not allow the re-colouring of the link to show that it has been visited.
I have a large screen (22") but even with this it is not feasible to zoom out (to reduce the scrolling problem) as the general page font size and colour contrast between the headings, sub-headings, and leader text make this difficult.
"more space for the main stories of the day" - Err, no actually, the previous layout allowed for more information to be presented. Now there are fewer stories displayed unless of course you want to scroll down and up (repeatedly).
Page load time - Now there are a lot more graphics displayed there is a significant and noticeable load time difference. I have a high speed ADLS line and the difference between previous load time and now is very noticeable (a lot more of my bandwidth being used for presenting pictures on news items I may not even visit or be interested in. Note the order of these two - I visit the site several times a day and/or return to the news site (no I do NOT want to have a personalised page) multiple times and even with caching of images there are times when there are a significant number of reloads. I clear all cached data for security on exit of the browser and on shutdown.
Note I have tried this on several platforms (XP/Vista/Mac/Linux) and different browsers.
They appear to be concentrating on looking 'pretty' rather than doing what the site purports to be which is a NEWS site. More information, less graphical 'frippery'. They are starting to look like the Sun or DM sites!!!!
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