http://news.bbc.co.uk/ on 2006-08-26
an example of bad web design — totally missing the point
Page information
Visit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video,
audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK
news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also
entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.
Assessment
Here is the news site of the famous BBC, masters of the media – except the Web!
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Font sizes based on
pxabound! -
<table>s within<table>s within<table>s, and mainly anonymous too, making corrective styling very difficult -
Spacer images also abound, some forcing minimum widths on columns and the page as a whole.
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Lynx view: 60 lines of text to get to the distinct content. There's a link to skip to it, but I don't want to have to traverse two links for each page for something that could have been so easily accomplished.
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There's a low-graphics version of each page, which avoids many problems, but cuts out more than necessary; for example, the RSS feed.
The point of the Web has been completely missed.
