The BBC has completed its home page redesign.

There isn’t much of a departure from the design that was being tested out during beta.

The site makes use of colour to frame the key headlines. Designers who are conservative about using reverse video might have a thing or two to say about this. I think it adds to the visual dynamism of the site; but I’m not sure if this was the best design option to emphasize headlines. Is it time to say goodbye to headline font hierarchies, especially in the online domain?

Well, it is the home page and not the news site front page. The emphasis perhaps was on customisation and displaying the wide range of BBC’s media offerings. What I’m really watching out for - is the redesigned news site, of which we already have had some glimpses.

I had in a previous post, touched on the how the navigation has changed; and that we now knew what universal navigation across different BBC sites is going to look like. Other changes related mainly to way content is accessed and customised from the home page.

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This is how the latest version of page looks like:

Links:

Page changes explained on the site.

Yet another post on the planned changes to the news site page structure.