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Listed below are comments made by Blueto73 between Tuesday, 10th March 2009 and Wednesday, 18th March 2009.

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Changes to our blogs 7:52pm on 18 Mar 2009 Apart from the comments already made there are a few things to this design that make it look, well, a bit strange.
I know the BBC loves white space in its sites now, but do we really need that huge header for each article? I'm not bothered either way about photos, but some thought about how to put all the elements into the box effectively would have been nice. And I would have thought the author might have got top billing, rather than the tag. And you could lose some of the space around the boxes on the right.
Second, every blog seems to get chopped off after three articles - not a problem for a realtively inactive blog but for one like Robert Peston's, with daily article (or more!) this really doesn't let the content flow.
Third, the 'more from this blog' stuff at the bottom is really a monster. If you *really* think they're useful, some of these can really be put up on the right hand side (categories, authors) where you currently have the 'BBC in the news' box. More articles in the main blog, please, less clicking through 'helpful' BBC links. Even 'last 10 posts' rather than 'topical posts' (you already have categories, one or the other please). I come here to read blogs, not click on links.
Finally, it's not actually that easy to find where you can go to add a comment, this really needs to be improved.
News ticker, most shared and most read 8:44pm on 10 Mar 2009 Well, the ticker is more prominent, but from my point of view that's not a good thing. I've never seen the point of having this feature, I can't see what it adds in terms of either content or usefulness to the reader.

Of the 'Latest' and 'Breaking News' items running at this moment, all link to stories elsewhere on the news site, a couple are already in the 'Other Top Stories' links, however none of them are important enough to appear on the main page in their own right.

It's a news site so I expect 'breaking news' as a matter of course, and I trust the BBC as an editor to make sure new and important stories are shown on the front page as soon as possible.

Would like to have an option to turn the ticker off!

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