The BBC’s Bejing Olympics coverage has been embracing new technologies including SMS. The Live Olympics page is not only embedding the BBC’s iPlayer allowing you to watch the sport of your choice but there is a Live Text Commentary alongside it. Leveraging the latest Web 2.0 technologies, the commentary text updates itself without needing the user to reload the webpage using Ajax. (more…)
We’ve just revamped our homepage and we would like to hear what you have to say about it. Is it clear who we are? Can you easily find what you are looking for? Can we improve it yet further?
Following feedback on usability and an evaluation of our website, we found that visitors were taking too many clicks to find what they were looking for. So we had a good look at our site and decided a refresh was needed. In a positive step to making our site easier to use, we’ve started with your first port of call – our homepage – with a view to a potential full site redesign in the future. (more…)