Our new homepage design, new pan-BBC search with friendly ‘best-bets’ type links, switchable scopes and improved UI; and a task-oriented global toolbar are LIVE
Phew!
I mainly worked on the search for the last 3 months, with an awesome team of librarians, coders and project managers; and did some work on the toolbar.
This is just the start of stuff we’re doing to make the BBC website rock – stay tuned.
In the mean time please go and wander round the new improved www.bbc.co.uk, and let me know what you think.
Petafloptimism 
It is very nice. I particularly think that the HTML on the search system is of the highest order!
I like he tabs to divide the search results, but do they need to take up so much vertical space? Was there a reason for this?
Front page: genius piece of IA – but too grey – weirdly conceals the sectionalisation in some way.
Search engine: I maintain my previous comment about excessive screen estate being taken up with interface stuff. But I concede that there may not be a better way!
LOVE THE NEW FILM SITE
Boo – four column pages promote a full-screen-browser
centric view of the web. Which I hate.
Matt
what is the rationale for non underline links?
i see that all the links are the same color which helps,
i like the pallette.
cool very nice.
actually i see that the search section has underline links.
Great design. Very clean. The only area I would question is the Categories section that has a tendency to blur together (read cluttered) making it difficult to read. Strangely enough, its actually much easier to read in Netscape. Just my humble opinion.