{"id":2048,"date":"2010-02-19T10:39:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T20:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2010-02-19T10:39:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T20:39:34","slug":"bbc-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/bbc-website\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/bbcinternet\/2010\/02\/a_new_global_visual_language_f.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2047\" title=\"3-GVL2-Grid\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/3-GVL2-Grid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/3-GVL2-Grid.jpg 600w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/3-GVL2-Grid-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week a friend of mine posted a tweet from the BBC that demonstrated the level of work they went through trying to come up with a new website look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/bbcinternet\/2010\/02\/a_new_global_visual_language_f.html\" target=\"_blank\">Take a peek<\/a>&#8230;it&#8217;s pretty interesting the level of detail and work that they went through. Now the next time you approach a designer and ask for something &#8220;easy&#8221;&#8230;keep in mind that it&#8217;s a lot of work to achieve that.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think it was a little overkill in this case. The end result, while nice and clean, wasn&#8217;t something that floored me. Not that a news organization like the BBC needs to have fantastic graphic design, but I guess I think the end-result could have been accomplished with a lot less planning (get to the part where they&#8217;re counting the pixel grid?)<\/p>\n<p>I get it, sometimes when you&#8217;re working with a team, this level of planning is necessary to get everyone working uniformly, but having seen many column and grid websites before it&#8217;s not like they couldn&#8217;t have based their grids off of any number of pre-made CSS templates and just built from that?<\/p>\n<p>Well, in any case, it looks like it was a successful project and I love reading about how creative teams go through their process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week a friend of mine posted a tweet from the BBC that demonstrated the level of work they went through trying to come up with a new website look. Take a peek&#8230;it&#8217;s pretty interesting the level of detail and work that they went through. Now the next time you approach a designer and ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,89,16,97,24,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-design-news","category-howto","category-marketing","category-typography","category-webdesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}