The Green, Green Grass of Home
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| 14:45 UK time, Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Last night my lit up like a Christmas tree. On looking, I noticed that the sudden interest was caused by Tweets suggesting the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Homepage had changed its colour scheme to green to show solidarity with the .
This is not the case.
The colour change was a pure coincidence and one that has appeared several times since the weekend, but only spotted and Tweeted last night.
We change the colour palette on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Homepage to tie in with the default picture that appears in the highlights box in the top right hand corner of the UK-facing homepage. When you click separate tabs, the colour palette changes. Last night's was green to pick up on the background of the image we used to showcase Comedy Extra. The colours we choose are also reflected on the international facing homepage which changes its palette when we change ours.
Colour changes on the home page are not made to reflect the news and sport agenda. Should breaking news interrupt our editorial schedule for that area, we default to the colour used by (Red).
As a user, you can stop this colour rotation by going into the 'Add more to this page' section of the homepage and selecting a permanent default colour of your own. I find the colour changes a little distracting, so I have, with a nod to my Goth past, gone for grey.
Ashley Stewart-Noble is Senior Content Producer, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Homepage and ´óÏó´«Ã½ iPlayer, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Future Media & Technology
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At 17th Jun 2009, oldfool1 wrote:I am an expat living in Spain.
I dont like the layout of your new website. However, I understand the need to separate UK and international versions. What I find is very irritating is when I make changes to layout and put various ticks in edit and expand the contents with + sign etc. My changes dont remain the same when I open a new window of ´óÏó´«Ã½. All the changes that I have made simply disappear and revert back to its original layout.
Your new international version has lots of errors and I am surprise that you have not tested for errors or have attempted to put things right.
A frustrated user
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At 18th Jun 2009, Pete wrote:oldfool1: do you have cookies enabled in your browser?
See /home/feedback/ - "Why doesn't the page remember my settings?"
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