The BBC's new look
Mike Smartt, Editor-in-chief at BBC News Online, is announcing a major site redesign to be rolled out later this week. This will be the first big alteration to the look of BBC News Online since 1999. The most obvious change will be an increase in page width, a full 30 percent, no less: table width="760". This means more news higher up the screen and less scrolling. The site's way of linking to news analysis and features along with the archive of more than two million items is also being spruced up.
BBC Sport will be changing along the same lines, too, and if you take a look at its wonderful Cricket World Cup special, you'll get an idea of what's in store for the news pages. I like it. It's bright, it's inviting and it's different.
Diarist of the day: Evelyn Waugh, 18 February 1925[While teaching at Arnold House school, Wales] "On Sunday I started on an awful thing called week's duty. It means that I have no time at all from dawn to dusk so much to read a postcard or visit a water-closet. Already -- today is Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday -- my nerves are distraught. Yesterday I beat a charming boy called Clegg and kicked a hideous boy called Cooper and sent Cooke to the proprietor. Yesterday afternoon I had my first riding lesson and enjoyed it greatly. It is not an easy sport or a cheap one but most agreeable. No letter from Olivia. Yesterday in a history paper the boy Howarth wrote: 'In this year James II gave birth to a son but many people refused to believe it and said it had been brought to him in a hot water bottle.' "
