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What guidelines?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/newmedia/

They may have changed again since Brunel was designed - it's been around a long time now, five years I think.

I don't really understand what you are saying. I wanted to know why brunel was chosen in the first place. I'm sure if another skin had been chosen it would have been updated to fit the guidelines.

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"The request was more or less on the same page you got the other brunel link "

Sorry TiT, I don't understand what you are saying either.

"I wanted to know why brunel was chosen in the first place."

I'm not sure why you are confused - the site wanted a redesign, and it happened to be Brunel.

They could have chosen to revamp an old one, but they didn't, they designed a new one.

So Brunel wasn't 'chosen' as a default skin - it was a site redesign and the people who do these things chose to allow members to keep using the old designs.

That certainly makes it clearer - I hadn't understood that brunel was a *new design that was implemented as the default *instead of the others. I thought brunel, alabaster and goo were on par originally.

Sorry, my fault - I thought you were 'older' than you are.

Goo came first, then Alabaster, then Brunel (with plain sneaking in sometime after). Each new design became the default (except plain) when it was released.

Yes, I was certainly of the misunderstanding that because brunel, alabaster and goo were all being supported for a number of years that they were equal rather than brunel having been designed to replace the others.

The colors for Brunel could be worse--I remember from testing that the pages that are now green were originally 'baby poop' green