The BBC website isn’t that bad looking. The largest chunk of the page still goes to the content. However, my problem is that it’s a fixed width website. BBC isn’t the only person that I’m annoyed with because of this (The Times and to a lesser extent the Guardian website also only gives a fixed amount of room to the page). Fixed width isn’t bad, but it is when you’re still being supportive of smaller (older) resolutions.

On my not-so-large monitor there’s still a large amount of white space that’s going unused that the content of the site could fill up. The BBC has an obligation to support legacy things for a short while, but they’d still be supported with a variable width design.

The ideal solution to this was if people took more seriously the concept of design and content separation. Blizzard do this amazingly — by just ditching HTML all together. That way I can just disable their CSS, and add my own. I could literally do whatever I want without having to worry about badly formatted or too tailored HTML getting in my way.