They seem to have fit more whitespace in, which I think I like. But there’s still a heavy use of flash. Boo. Can an iPad user get some love?

One of the nice things about hosting the site myself is that I can make minor changes and updates to the theme and various other pages.  Another one is that I can now more directly include The Smidgin: Development instead of having the site split across two servers.  And, finally, I now have direct control over my Google Analytics, which is an awful fun piece of software to play with.

If you see any bugs, let me know. I tried to make everything transfer as easily as possible, but more than likely I messed up somewhere.

Enjoy the new site!

My initial impressions are favorable.  They’ve retained the main red color, while still making it a bit less forceful.  Everything is basically in the same locations, but I can tell that there is more whitespace in the design.  Remember, in web design “whitespace is your friend”.

Not having spent much time on the rest of  bbc.co.uk, I can’t really comment on it, though it does look like the redesign spans the whole site.  I wish I had a screenshot of any part before the redesign.  (Though if you just want to look at one, there are plenty on Flickr.)