"I didn’t know I was this geeky until I discovered the online world through my office’s 2400 baud modem back in ’93." BBC beta homepage
This beta page is quite simple, with a few visual flourishes allowed in the larger image top right. Clicking the coloured buttons underneath it will change both the image and the rest of the page’s supportive colours, and the image itself might go over its own set border (the top of the woman’s head sticks out in this picture, as does a tree in the frosty blue Garderner’s World picture and the locks of David Tennant’s cartoon head in the orange ‘Pilot the Tardis’ option. You can make some, but not too many, changes to the content.
There’s a choice of various headlines and an option to localise your page, sadly not to anywhere outside of the U.K., so I’m stuck with London weather. Not everything works as it should yet (duh, beta) as dragging blocks into different columns will not always align properly. But I appreciate the return to larger images and the effort to make BBC’s home more appealing. Now can it stay ad-free, please? And will the underlying content also take on this new look?
