| The New BBC news website looks bloody awful |
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| Sunday, 17 October 2010 | |
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If you think the new BBC news website looks bloody awful then go here and get a copy of a Greasemonkey script that will recraft the page so it looks like the previous incarnation: http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/87428 What does it do? It gives you back the previous look and feel to the BBC news website. If you download this will you please add a kind review and get your mates/friends to try it out too? Thanks! You will of course need Greasemonkey which you can get here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748/ o Gives you back the left hand menu with the previous 'look and feel' o Changes the masthead to black and reduces the font size o Removes the new top menu o Reduces the headline font size o Changes the default font to verdana o Reduces the section font sizes o Reduces the garishness of the Most Popular tabbed group o Removes a few news sections that intrude on the browsing experience o Removed new promotional sections used for non-UK advertising o Removed unnecessary extra images Generally makes the new BBC news website less 'monstrous'. Recent changes: 9th October 2010 - Changed uppercase and colour Shared/Read/Watched/Listened 9th October 2010 - Changed the mast head solid black to a gradient 10th October 2010 - Reduced the general link size, no longer emboldened 10th October 2010 - Moved the main article picture/video to the left 10th October 2010 - Moved the main right hand column removing the huge gap 10th October 2010 - Moved the Related Stories down underneath the right hand column 10th October 2010 - Cut down width of byline 10th October 2010 - Main article headline width restricted to the article width 11th October 2010 - Speeded up slightly, removed one line slowing everything 11th October 2010 - Moved the market data analysis widget to the left 13th October 2010 - 'Special' extra large headline reduced 13th October 2010 - Inset extra feature links, hypertabs, made to fit the content width This was originally created by Tom Veil and all due credit goes to him. I have just customised the script to do more! It is still being modified to cope with all that garishness, this is a work in progress. So please be patient. Please give us a good review and some feedback that you like Tom's and my work. |
