The BBC is perhaps the site I visit the most, its my homepage and I always have a least one tab open with the BBC all the time, so for me its exciting to see they are testing out a new home page design.
At first glance the new page seems to address some of the niggles I have had with the page with a navigation bar at the top of the page allowing easy access to the most important BBC services which “will soon appear at the top of most BBC web pages – not just the homepage”. In adding this new navigation bar the BBC have had to remove the clock, not something I used much but I am sure for some people this will be missed.
Most of the page looks very similar although after reading up about the new design the BBC are saying that they have a new Media Zone to bring together all of the BBC’s online media content. Although looking very similar to the current design the whole page has actually been rebuilt with a “brand new technical infrastructure”. The BBC don’t have a deadline for when this new design will replace the current one as they still have more features to test out but I am looking forward to trying this out for a few months.
If you want to try out the new design just click the “Try out new Beta homepage” button on the current home page or by going to http://beta.bbc.co.uk/.
