h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The Goo bitmap of the newly restored *big* h2g2 logo makes a great tesselation for my W*ndows background

Oh My God.

I wake up an hour too early in the morning because my alarm clock somehow managed to jump forward an hour, so I get up and log on to h2g2 and the navigation bar has all changed!

So is this why we were all having problems getting on to the site yesterday and why Jim was online at 12:00 midnight last night...?

Oh well, we'll get used to it I suppose.

Frankie

The BBCi thing looks like a complete rebrand (from 'BBC Online' I suppose). See:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/whatisbbci/movie.shtml

This comes after a new branding of 'BBC London' (replacing 'newsround southeast' with 'LDN'). Things change fast...

Toodles...

Frankie

It's still November 6 here for another 27 minutes. I will pretend the new, (much too wide!), toolbar does not yet exist...

The BBCi bar would be so much more compact if the search box was just a search link. We should be allowed different colours for different skins - especially as a new skin is on the way, I hear...

I dunno, I quite like the idea of having a search box on every page, and the bar looks fine on this huge monitor

The search doesn't seem to include the h2g2 Edited guide though...

Yuk. Yuk. Really doesn't go with Goo. Surely the Beeb has heard of skins?!

"The search doesn't seem to include the h2g2 Edited guide though..."

Time constraints were against us there. h2g2 will become part of the pan-BBC search just as soon as we can efficiently integrate our pages into their indexes. It's definitely not because they didn't want to. In the end, the timescales for the BBCi launch were very tight, and we didn't want to add another unknown to the search team.

look at this!!


click on toolbar "index"
select "h"

look who what comes first!

Looks bad (in Goo) but works fine ...

Rather than trying to persuade the BBC to change 'their' bar into a Goo color scheme, wouldn't it be a good idea to take that business-like grey as a basis for a new skin (the 'h2g2-at-the-office-stealth-skin')?

Jeremy

That's an excellent idea, that way I won't have to reach for the mouse everytime someone comes into the office

Lets start a campaign for a 'Boring' Skin

Yes!! Lets hear it for the stealth skin!!

A 'boring but very slim line for fast loading skin.' Then you don't get a page loading up and stuck so that you cant just cover it with something else quickly. Or am I the only one whose computer locks up on a regular basis?

FABT

That bar looks terrible on my pc. Dark blue goo, nasty grey bar, then lilac browser. (I like lilac, all right!)
The search bar does match the headers in Goo nicely, but I still don't like it. It doesn't blend in at all.

Lilac

You've got to be kidding

It was pink when I had a Power Puff Girls theme. The colours are there to be used.

the more is see GREY BBi toolbar, the more you get feeling being in a senior citzens home in the 1950s. BBC you are senior citzens, but please behave bit more modern. even your NEWS studio and Station calls have more colours.

BBCi toolbar get some colour. please. atleast fit colour with different webpages.

You're lucky yours is grey.
Mine is puke green.
Against my black GOO, it's

And I thought that is what alabaster was, Whisky??

On this - the post message box screen - the grey bar is hovering above the banner add and the Goo looks "cut-off" - is this another glitch?

Still not sure I like it. - but hey, at least we get big old h2g2 front page button back!!!

Just a small point; it's probably better to report bugs with the toolbar in the Bug Reports section of Feedback. The Announcements page is not the right place, and we may miss any problems you raise (though we will try to check all the reports here).

Thanks!