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Some recent launches

  • Posted on: June 21, 2004
  • In: Design, BBC
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Whilst I was away on honeymoon there have been a number of launches at BBC Wales on the “Slash Wales” service (as it’s being marketed - no comment). Anyhow a number of these sites have been in development for nearly 12 months.

They’ve seen a considerable amount of work on the backend and represent re-engineered content management system and a shift in production methodologies - with an emphasis on User Centered Design, Web Standards and an Object Oriented Approach to the content management, with extensive look at cross promotion and meta data.

In Pictures
in pictures
In Pictures pulls together a lot of content from across the BBC Wales service relating to images and puts it into one place. This was a first go at creating a generic style for all functional portals using CSS to render as much of the presentational information as possible.

Development / IA / Design / CSS

Surfing
surfing
This site represents the most work. A complete reworking of the Information Architecture, User Interface and a lot of time spent on the graphic design integration with the new content management structure. I’ll be giving a more detailed breakdown of these sites once I get my portfolio redesigned.

Development / IA / Design / CSS Implementation

Weather
weather
This is phase one of the weather portal. It’s not quite right yet. The weather app needs some work from a usability point of view and the overall green/blue feel has been lost with the introduction of the garish purple. Hopefully this will be addressed in the next phase.

Development / IA / Design

Comments

Hi Mark

Nust noticed a slight glitch you may want to look at here with the 3rd image moving over to the right. May just need a but heh woorth mentioning ... viewing on PC running IE 5.0. By the way finally got a portfolio site up at: http://www.gsanders.co.uk

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Graham Sanders
Fri 2nd Jul 2004
at 7:19 am

Hi Graham,

Yeah, it’s the floats. Not quite got the hang of it yet.

I’ve already had a good look at your site. It’s really nice. Some great photography on there.

I’ve finally come up with a design i’m happy with for the new snooch site, and i’ve got a backend solution i’m happy with. I’ve just got to get ond build the thing! Wrangling with floated CSS columns at the moment. Just about got it sussed though.

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Mark
Sun 4th Jul 2004
at 1:36 pm

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