{"id":705,"date":"2008-07-03T10:04:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T09:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/705-the-bbcs-global-visual-language.html"},"modified":"2008-07-03T10:04:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T09:04:35","slug":"the-bbcs-global-visual-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/705-the-bbcs-global-visual-language.html","title":{"rendered":"The BBC\u2019s Global Visual Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Not a pictorial version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esperanto.net\/\">Esperanto<\/a>; rather, a set of design guidelines for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\">bbc.co.uk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The global visual language is a set of guidelines which aim to bring more consistency to the site by introducing an underlying design grid and consistent design patterns, icons, buttons, image sizes and a pan-BBC audio\/video player.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/bbcinternet\/2008\/07\/iplayer_website_redesign.html\">according to<\/a> BBC interaction designer and blogger Ben Hanbury. His main focus is the revised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayerbeta\/ \">iPlayer site<\/a>, which has the last seven days of the BBC\u2019s TV and radio output available on-demand via a media player based on Flash \u2013 Adobe must be delighted.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the new iPlayer site is one of the few examples I\u2019ve known where Flash content does not play reliably. On my normal PC I get the useless and inaccurate message, \u201cThis content isn\u2019t available at the moment.\u201d Seems to be a firewall issue. I\u2019ll post again if I can work out exactly what the problem is.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:5b21e46b-4ce2-4524-bf8d-01b6a962d85c\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; 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\/iplayer\" rel=\"tag\">iplayer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/adobe\" rel=\"tag\">adobe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/flash\" rel=\"tag\">flash<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a pictorial version of Esperanto; rather, a set of design guidelines for bbc.co.uk: The global visual language is a set of guidelines which aim to bring more consistency to the site by introducing an underlying design grid and consistent design patterns, icons, buttons, image sizes and a pan-BBC audio\/video player. according to BBC interaction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/705-the-bbcs-global-visual-language.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The BBC\u2019s Global Visual Language<\/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-705","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\/705","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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}