{"id":533,"date":"2008-03-03T09:49:54","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T08:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2008-03-03T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T08:49:54","slug":"new-gadgety-home-page-at-bbccouk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/533-new-gadgety-home-page-at-bbccouk.html","title":{"rendered":"New gadgety home page at bbc.co.uk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/\">new customizable home page<\/a>, with gadgets similar to those at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netvibes.com\/\">Netvibes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/ig\">iGoogle<\/a> and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>First impressions are mixed. I don&#8217;t like it&#8217;s large size (1024 x 768), even though this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\">the trend<\/a>. This issue is not the size of my display, but that I don&#8217;t necessarily want the browser to occupy so much of it. I&#8217;m sorry there is not more effort put into web pages that resize nicely &#8211; one of the reasons I like <a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/timesreader.html\">Times Reader<\/a> and its cousins.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I found myself with large blank areas after a quick go at customization. I also noticed that even if I selected many more subcategories for the News panel, it is still much less informative and useful than the old-style (and smaller) <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/\">News home page<\/a>, which to be honest is normally where I go to when I visit the BBC. I hope there is no rush to update the News page to the same style.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a9dcc281-5517-48a1-99ec-f4462730401b\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/bbc\" rel=\"tag\">bbc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/web%20authoring\" rel=\"tag\">web authoring<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/igoogle\" rel=\"tag\">igoogle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/netvibes\" rel=\"tag\">netvibes<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has a new customizable home page, with gadgets similar to those at Netvibes, iGoogle and elsewhere. First impressions are mixed. I don&#8217;t like it&#8217;s large size (1024 x 768), even though this is the trend. This issue is not the size of my display, but that I don&#8217;t necessarily want the browser to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/533-new-gadgety-home-page-at-bbccouk.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New gadgety home page at bbc.co.uk<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,44,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc","category-internet","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}