Today the BBC Radio Scotland website – my pet project for the last couple of months – relaunched. Wil was responsible for the new look; Ryan programmed the labour-saving back-end & some of the front end; Carol, Alan and Jo prepared all the content; and I built the rest of the front-end and kinda ran the show.
The new site offers some significant improvements over the old one (live since the summer of 2003!):-
- Schedule listings for individual days, the coming week and the previous week – all with Listen Again links where available;
- Permanent pages for the station’s presenters;
- Now & Next listings;
- An RSS Feed off all the daily updates from Carol and the team;
- No more popups for playlists and email – only the Radio Player launches separately – and a Programme A-Z page to replace what was a dropdown menu;
- Predictable, hackable URIs across the whole site and some splendidly semantic markup.