fair enough. I don't have one either. I may occasionally watch something live
comment by There'sOnlyOneReds (U1721)
The BBC site don't have ads because we(not me pfft) pay for their ridiculous license fee. I'm sure if the admin here were receiving a license fee from 100's of millions of people they wouldn't even contemplate any form of ads.
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I know thats why I said because they get their money another way, the point was there are many ways to get cash whether it is via a membership fee, or selling products and services, or access to data, or whatever. It's not banner ads or nothing, and that's why it's not true all sites have banner ads and that's why admin are trying to go down a route that is not banner ads.
After all that, what do you think of the BBC site
Apparently the BBC caught more than 1000/day last year who hadnt payed for a lisence.
Phew! I thought it was only me thinking that it was a load of rubbish!
I expect after this redesign it might be 2000/day this year
D Diggler (U4142)
posted 31 seconds ago
Apparently the BBC caught more than 1000/day last year who hadnt payed for a lisence.
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I want to know how. All they can do is turn up at your door and you just refuse to let them in...
"access to data" <- That is not a path for us. Emails are private. It is not our policy on the whole to even email our own members without getting the OK on the forum.
Oh I agree 100% I hate data sales. Just meant generally thats how some people make money. Dont want to give you any bad ideas
@Da Bomb,
Well now that I think about it, I read that on the BBC website.
Propaganda or what?
PS There is another way Admin. You could just deposit some cash into my account, and I'll play an evenings poker for you, I'll take 50% of the winnings, and then you should be covered for the next year cost wise out of the remaining 50%. You know it makes sense
They've reduced the amount of yellow from this morning if my memory serves me correctly
"JA606 is funded at present by us Admin's and our cash reserves from other work."
___
Holy shi-ites. Milan Mandaric's been bunging money into your Monaco account too, Admin?
Super Keith Andrews. We'll miss you, Keith. (U3522)
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Them type of things are the difference between websites that have 1,000 members, to the ones that have 1,000,000 members.
Steryd can you close your brackets please? I'm so eager to hear the remainder of your sentence.
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there you go)
comment by Scholesatov (U12340)
posted 9 hours, 34 minutes ago
It's scary to think that the person that has designed this has probably went to a top university, got a degree and got paid good money for making this. It's awful.
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A girl that I work with is friends with the person that designed the site. Apparently nobody at all likes it. God knows how it got through the studio without anyone telling them it was rubbish.
You could also have live match threads. The BBC do it, I'm sure it's just an RSS feed you could "tap in to".
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 10 hours, 7 minutes ago
comment by Scholesatov (U12340)
posted 9 hours, 34 minutes ago
It's scary to think that the person that has designed this has probably went to a top university, got a degree and got paid good money for making this. It's awful.
---------------
A girl that I work with is friends with the person that designed the site. Apparently nobody at all likes it. God knows how it got through the studio without anyone telling them it was rubbish.
____________
She works with him at the design studio? Is it the studio people that don't like it? Sorry just trying to work out who you mean when you say she's said that apparently nobody likes it, although I know from the feedback I've seen that nobody likes it including me
The reason I ask is because Im curious when the BBC keep quoting all the research that was done and that being so positive. I simply dont believe it. I know many people who fed back during the beta testing on the home page, including myself, all slating it, so I wonder where all the people are in this wide ranging research that liked it, because if you look at the BBC site it's getting slaughtered to a man on the blog discussing it.
I also can't believe a design studio would present such an awful representation of their brand to a big client like the BBC.
Maybe the BBC are sabotaging their own site to prove that all the people they lost and the cutting of certain content was a bad idea. In could be a sinister plot to get back all their mates who got made redundant
Comment deleted by Site Moderator
Little Pea
I'm not in work today, but I'll ask a few questions when I go in tomorrow. I think that this person was only working on the sports section.
The Wonderfully Sweet Little Pea (U6951)
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I've created a website for The BBC a few years ago and it's such a "farse".
I had to report to person a, who had to check with person b that person c would like it, if person c likes it, then it goes onto person d and so on...
SLOWLY getting used to it...but why are the MAIN HEADLINES all cramped into one column and barely visible?!
Not sure if they need it, but their SEO isn't great.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football
doesn't work, but
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/
does...what's with the "0"?
comment by Maestro - Ronaldo = .33 Andy Carrolls (U8867)
posted 3 hours, 2 minutes ago
Not sure if they need it, but their SEO isn't great.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football
doesn't work, but
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/
does...what's with the "0"?
-------------------
Shoddy work. Want to which agency has done it now.
The Wonderfully Sweet Little Pea
Apparently the BBC developed the sport section of their site in-house. I would think that they do all of their own stuff these days.
My colleagues' friend worked as the project manager on the job. She was all excited about working on the job to start with, but I can imagine that it must have turned a bit difficult towards the end. In my experience some clients can be very difficult to deal with and do not accept the guidance offered by those that design/develop sites. As a result the end product isn't as good as it could have been. Whilst the site was developed in-house, I am sure that the bureaucracy at the BBC is worse than even the most awkward of clients. So whilst the site might not be as good as you would expect; there is a good chance that is due to people in the upper echelons on the BBC sticking their oar in without any knowledge of digital.
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posted on 1/2/12
fair enough. I don't have one either. I may occasionally watch something live
posted on 1/2/12
comment by There'sOnlyOneReds (U1721)
The BBC site don't have ads because we(not me pfft) pay for their ridiculous license fee. I'm sure if the admin here were receiving a license fee from 100's of millions of people they wouldn't even contemplate any form of ads.
____________
I know thats why I said because they get their money another way, the point was there are many ways to get cash whether it is via a membership fee, or selling products and services, or access to data, or whatever. It's not banner ads or nothing, and that's why it's not true all sites have banner ads and that's why admin are trying to go down a route that is not banner ads.
After all that, what do you think of the BBC site
posted on 1/2/12
Apparently the BBC caught more than 1000/day last year who hadnt payed for a lisence.
posted on 1/2/12
Phew! I thought it was only me thinking that it was a load of rubbish!
posted on 1/2/12
I expect after this redesign it might be 2000/day this year
posted on 1/2/12
D Diggler (U4142)
posted 31 seconds ago
Apparently the BBC caught more than 1000/day last year who hadnt payed for a lisence.
--------------
I want to know how. All they can do is turn up at your door and you just refuse to let them in...
posted on 1/2/12
"access to data" <- That is not a path for us. Emails are private. It is not our policy on the whole to even email our own members without getting the OK on the forum.
posted on 1/2/12
Oh I agree 100% I hate data sales. Just meant generally thats how some people make money. Dont want to give you any bad ideas
posted on 1/2/12
@Da Bomb,
Well now that I think about it, I read that on the BBC website.
Propaganda or what?
posted on 1/2/12
PS There is another way Admin. You could just deposit some cash into my account, and I'll play an evenings poker for you, I'll take 50% of the winnings, and then you should be covered for the next year cost wise out of the remaining 50%. You know it makes sense
posted on 1/2/12
They've reduced the amount of yellow from this morning if my memory serves me correctly
posted on 1/2/12
"JA606 is funded at present by us Admin's and our cash reserves from other work."
___
Holy shi-ites. Milan Mandaric's been bunging money into your Monaco account too, Admin?
posted on 1/2/12
Super Keith Andrews. We'll miss you, Keith. (U3522)
------------
Them type of things are the difference between websites that have 1,000 members, to the ones that have 1,000,000 members.
posted on 1/2/12
Steryd can you close your brackets please? I'm so eager to hear the remainder of your sentence.
------------------------
there you go)
posted on 2/2/12
comment by Scholesatov (U12340)
posted 9 hours, 34 minutes ago
It's scary to think that the person that has designed this has probably went to a top university, got a degree and got paid good money for making this. It's awful.
---------------
A girl that I work with is friends with the person that designed the site. Apparently nobody at all likes it. God knows how it got through the studio without anyone telling them it was rubbish.
posted on 2/2/12
It's shiiit!
posted on 2/2/12
You could also have live match threads. The BBC do it, I'm sure it's just an RSS feed you could "tap in to".
posted on 2/2/12
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 10 hours, 7 minutes ago
comment by Scholesatov (U12340)
posted 9 hours, 34 minutes ago
It's scary to think that the person that has designed this has probably went to a top university, got a degree and got paid good money for making this. It's awful.
---------------
A girl that I work with is friends with the person that designed the site. Apparently nobody at all likes it. God knows how it got through the studio without anyone telling them it was rubbish.
____________
She works with him at the design studio? Is it the studio people that don't like it? Sorry just trying to work out who you mean when you say she's said that apparently nobody likes it, although I know from the feedback I've seen that nobody likes it including me
The reason I ask is because Im curious when the BBC keep quoting all the research that was done and that being so positive. I simply dont believe it. I know many people who fed back during the beta testing on the home page, including myself, all slating it, so I wonder where all the people are in this wide ranging research that liked it, because if you look at the BBC site it's getting slaughtered to a man on the blog discussing it.
I also can't believe a design studio would present such an awful representation of their brand to a big client like the BBC.
Maybe the BBC are sabotaging their own site to prove that all the people they lost and the cutting of certain content was a bad idea. In could be a sinister plot to get back all their mates who got made redundant
posted on 2/2/12
Comment deleted by Site Moderator
posted on 2/2/12
Little Pea
I'm not in work today, but I'll ask a few questions when I go in tomorrow. I think that this person was only working on the sports section.
posted on 2/2/12
The Wonderfully Sweet Little Pea (U6951)
-------------
I've created a website for The BBC a few years ago and it's such a "farse".
I had to report to person a, who had to check with person b that person c would like it, if person c likes it, then it goes onto person d and so on...
posted on 2/2/12
SLOWLY getting used to it...but why are the MAIN HEADLINES all cramped into one column and barely visible?!
posted on 2/2/12
Not sure if they need it, but their SEO isn't great.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football
doesn't work, but
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/
does...what's with the "0"?
posted on 2/2/12
comment by Maestro - Ronaldo = .33 Andy Carrolls (U8867)
posted 3 hours, 2 minutes ago
Not sure if they need it, but their SEO isn't great.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football
doesn't work, but
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/
does...what's with the "0"?
-------------------
Shoddy work. Want to which agency has done it now.
posted on 3/2/12
The Wonderfully Sweet Little Pea
Apparently the BBC developed the sport section of their site in-house. I would think that they do all of their own stuff these days.
My colleagues' friend worked as the project manager on the job. She was all excited about working on the job to start with, but I can imagine that it must have turned a bit difficult towards the end. In my experience some clients can be very difficult to deal with and do not accept the guidance offered by those that design/develop sites. As a result the end product isn't as good as it could have been. Whilst the site was developed in-house, I am sure that the bureaucracy at the BBC is worse than even the most awkward of clients. So whilst the site might not be as good as you would expect; there is a good chance that is due to people in the upper echelons on the BBC sticking their oar in without any knowledge of digital.
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