BBC News - They broke my favourite website

"Change for change sake", "If it ain't broke, then don't fix it" are all comments I've read about the new look BBC News website. The site adopted a new look at the start of the month and at first sight I hated it, and so did many others judging by the comments on the BBC Editors Blog. The old site design, which won awards and almost universal praise was a clean compact design and reminded me of reading a newspaper column. The new design was all spaced out had now had more white space than text and I found it difficult and almost unreadable.

To their credit and responding to comments the BBC have made minor tweaks to improve the look and feel. However one gripe I still have is many pages seem to render incorrectly in Firefox.

This is an example of a 'broken' page - it looks fine in Microsoft Internet Explorer



However in Firefox, odd things happen to the font sizes and alignment of text and pictures



While it may be something unique to my machine and/or is probably a simple fix I have seen it quite often on numerous pages.

One of the strengths of the old design was it seemed no matter what platform or browser you used (with the possible exception of lynx) it's compact size and simple design meant it always looked the same.