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Listed below are comments made by Shylar between Monday, 21st April 2008 and Monday, 6th April 2009.

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BBC News radar 10:51am on 06 Apr 2009 YES PLEASE! And the design, I think, is fine for what it is. Perhaps an RSS feed would be a good idea, too? Does a non-prioritised RSS feed already exist? I never thought to look for one.

Again, great idea. Hope this gets the green light =]
Changes to our blogs 4:50pm on 19 Mar 2009 Overall, I like the new layout. Most blogs have two columns. Fact. I find the text easy to read. Verdana helps. Sadly, Verdana looks AWFUL when it's large. I *think* the headlines are Verdana? Regardless, they look bad. Especially those at the bottom of the blog index page.

And is there a reason I can't copy text from a post in the blog index part? Is it a Firefox issue? It seems to think I haven't selected any text when I right-click to copy something. Only on the blog index, though. The individual posts are fine.

Again, I like the design, it's clear and easy to read and it is VERY difficult to have too much white space. Somebody mentioned there was too much but I disagree. Plenty of white space is an important attribute.

One last point; Rounded corners are a bit Web 2008 =P
News ticker, most shared and most read 3:34pm on 12 Mar 2009 This actually changed a little while ago with the old one...

But I remember that the JS used to write the headlines to the page used to remember where you left the page if you went back in your browser.

That was very handy when clicking the headline links and going back to see the next one.

I know the icons make that obsolete (kind of) - but I like as little interaction as possible =P
News ticker, most shared and most read 12:44pm on 10 Mar 2009 Great idea! More in-keeping with other news services and much more informative.

The pause/next/previous buttons are a little ugly, though.
Comments on changes 8:41pm on 27 Apr 2008
Anyway, it may have escaped your notice, but the BBC's overall corporate branding has used Gill Sans since the late 1990s, essentially since the old three-colour underlined blocks were replaced. It's only sensible, therefore, that the news organisation should finally toe the line and start to use Gill Sans in their graphics. Our local BBC area has used it for some years anyway.

nowaytheyareallgone - While it might be a good idea for branding, that should not be at the expense of accessibility. The fact is that when used in lower case it is difficult to read, never mind the colour scheme contrast the new News uses.

On smaller screens (such as a computer screen) it is near impossible to read.

Helvetica makes much more sense than Gill Sans for screen type, it always has. Helvetica has been the choice of many for many years now, simply because it is (perhaps arguably) the easiest font to read. On screen and print.

I do, however, agree that Arial and Helvetica are very different. Arial's boring and less curvy for a start.

Bring back the Helvetica, I say. Along with the moody glass studio and music of the mid-nineties. (Please?) =P
Comments on changes 10:05am on 22 Apr 2008 It's nice to get a speedy response and I thank your for that, Peter.

However, it does seem that all the comment posters yesterday were killing their keyboards with their fingers in vain, as we all know that posting the comments for most is just a bit of fun by following the crowd and lambasting the BBC.

There were one or two serious posters, though, I hope you know. And I believe some of them made some very valid points, so it would be nice if our BBC could acknowledge the remarks, as opposed to simply acknowledging the fact that people simply made comments.

In response to some of the things you mentioned, Peter, I don't believe a quick all-change of the on-screen graphics will lure younger viewers in. Television is becoming similar to the Web in that you can come across one or two sites which look very very pretty indeed but really don't have a lot to offer. Why is this BBC News new look different to that? Well I don't know. I suppose that's my point.

Instead of emulating the competition, it might be an idea to tell everybody why BBC News is the best in the world. I know it is. Many others do, too. But instead of slapping on a dodgy paint job and re-enforcing your Britishness by using Gill Sans for every piece of on-screen presentation, please consider first something with a little more weight, more gravitas... Something that reminds the massed why the BBC is our BBC and not just another lame broadcaster dumbing down the masses.

(I also feel obliged to point out that I thought the last look, which was still new, was beautiful).

...Thank you. We'll have more after this short break... =]
New News 09:56am on 21 Apr 2008 'BBC News Channel' ... 'BBC NEWS CHANNEL' ?! Do you not remember the ill-fated 'ITV News Channel'?

Renaming the most popular news channel to the BBC News Channel (yes, I know it is simply BBC News, but even your web site itself has labelled it as 'BBC News Channel') is the biggest mistake of this so-called re-brand.

I'm so very sorry that you felt the brand wasn't strong enough but the brand of the BBC goes without saying. I agree with 'imaginativename' - the graphics look like they were made on PowerPoint. The last set of digital on-screen graphics were far superior, why fix it if it ain't broken?

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