Producer Amy moving to Radio 1 Breakfast

[SamTheInternetGuy]

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know about some changes I've made to Scott's site, just to try to organise things nicely.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/scottmills/

At the bottom of the page there's those five boxes which we call the "Article Archive" - it always used to be five there, and then the rest were on another page. It was kind of chronological, and stuff got bumped off the top 5 into the long list as it got older.

So I've reorganised this content into three categories now - Guest Gallery, Random Stuff, and Stuff We Made. I think those three categories sum up the three types of content that used to put in the old Article Archive - it's all the same stuff, but there is now a page for each of those three things.

The 5 boxes on Scott's home page will now work as follows -

1. Latest Guest

2. Latest Random thing

3. Latest Thing we made

4 & 5 other promotional boxes

And obviously there's room for promo and latest video etc at the top of that page as well as always. What do you think?

Sam

[Jugalug]

A lot better, as there's now more variety.

And I suppose, if you put them side by side, you can make the page wider too.

[MissCorsham]

Very nice. Is there better names for the categories though? The random thing and the stuff we made doesnt make it very clear. Well I dont think it does, everyone might disagree with me.

[Jono]

It needed something as I swear it had the same links on it since the end of November.

[Gamesmaster18993]

Yeah it is much better because its easier to find your way around it

[JonathanEx]

I like it, the 3 way sorting of things is a good way of doing it.

Now, to uhm, sidetrack this slightly - inspired by this update, and the new homepage, I've thrown together this little mock of what the homepage for the Scott Mills pages could look like. Key words are mock, as it's very rough and unfinished (some bits I spent too much time on, like the modern style email icons, others no time at all) and it's just to show the idea, and also homepage, as most of the content pages would look fine in the current barley style pages, just with the new menu from the promo area.

Only other 2 things to note, I'm pretty much working with what's on the website now which is why the 'header' looks like arse and doesn't have Scott in it, and something else I forget. Oh yeah, just again, it's not pretty - it's a concept idea, just what I think it could resemble based on the new style of the homepage.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j153/jonathanexplorer/mills.jpg

I don't know if there are plans for doing something like this at R1 online, but hopefully I've inspired someone.

[Rob]

It is alot clearer but I find it odd how it's set to the right. Have you tried centering it, I think it might look better but you're the pro!

[Jugalug]

Sorry, but that looks horrible.

I was just thinking something based on this...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/scottmills/scottcam/

[Nik B.]

The Scottcam site is still up?! :shock:

[Jono]

The Scottcam site is still up?! :shock:

How exciting...

[SamTheInternetGuy]

Yep ScottCam is still up - you can watch the highlights and you can play with a demo version of the console - you know, just in case you want to show people what it used to do

Thanks for your mockup JonathanEx! Some nice ideas there. Will discuss them with the team. Just to reassure you all, the intention is absolutely to use the full width of the page eventually, but it's a lengthy ol' process - we need to find something that works for all the Radio 1 DJs (not just Scott), is flexible and futureproof, and something that fits in with the BBC's overall style guides. But we are working on it, promise!

[Rob]

Ah, that's alright then. As long as you don't plan to keep it lobsided for ever then it's looking good!

[Jono]

thanks for your mockup JonathanEx! Some nice ideas there. Will discuss them with the team. Just to reassure you all, the intention is absolutely to use the full width of the page eventually, but it's a lengthy ol' process - we need to find something that works for all the Radio 1 DJs (not just Scott), is flexible and futureproof, and something that fits in with the BBC's overall style guides. But we are working on it, promise!

Yeah I guess it all very well for Moyles and Mills and the daytime DJs but when it comes to weekends the pages are a bit bare and it's no way that standard could be kept up on those pages.

[Viv]

Absolute genius, Sam. :-)

[Tom.]

Slightly Off topic but I was just looking around the website and in the mobile downloads section there is the dizzee rascal for pm clip.

The link was http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio1/colinmurray/dizzee.mp3

Why???

[Jono]

Slightly Off topic but I was just looking around the website and in the mobile downloads section there is the dizzee rascal for pm clip.

The link was http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio1/colinmurray/dizzee.mp3

Why???

When Dizzee was on Newsnight it was Colin that first picked up on it.