http://leebaillie.co.uk I am Lee Baillie and this is leebaillie.co.uk Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:15:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The BBC's iPlayer website will be revamped today, innitially in beta. The full launch of the new look, and more dynamic iPlayer site will be in a couple of weeks time; bug fixes and errors will no doubt play a major part of the iPlayer site over the next few ... http://leebaillie.co.uk/2008/06/26/bbc-iplayer-web-site-redesign/ So, as Tom posted earlier, Heinz have decided to withdraw a television advert that got 200 Britons all worked up. In an innocent portrayal of what appears to be family life, the advertising agency responsible for Heinz's television commercials have really got the country talking. But why? Tom blogged about how he ... http://leebaillie.co.uk/2008/06/24/heinz-are-one-sandwich-short-of-a-picnic/ By Tom Loze-Thwaite I was sitting in bed with a cup of tea this evening, getting my daily fix of current events from the BBC and The Guardian, when an all-too-familiar column title caught my eye. Maybe I’m a sceptic, or a pessimist, but these days whenever I see the words ... http://leebaillie.co.uk/2008/06/24/heinz-pulls-gay-kiss-tv-ad/ London mayor Boris Johnson has publicly blamed video games for violence amongst Britain's young people. What a fool. Writing in The London Paper, the Mayor said We must show young people that knives are not cool, and for that we need positive role models.I want to counteract the damaging influences drug-addled celebrities ... http://leebaillie.co.uk/2008/06/22/boris-blames-games-for-knife-violence/ Why-oh-why do the BBC continue to mess around with the timeslot for Doctor Who? It has actually made me quite angry, as I keep missing the programme when it is broadcast on a Saturday evening. Earlier today I was sitting in Starbucks with friends. Realising the time was getting on a bit, ... http://leebaillie.co.uk/2008/06/21/bbc-one-doctor-who-schedule-nightmare/ You may have noticed the subtle change to the BBC News website this week. Addressing concerns about the double masthead, they've removed the 'BBC' from BBC News so that now it just reads 'News' on the main masthead. Don't worry, though, that pointless black masthead still has an ubermassive BBC logo just ... http://leebaillie.co.uk/2008/06/03/bbc-news-website-subtle-change/ I wanted to create a vibrant and clean CSS template and came up with I'm Clean & Crisp. It's a green and blue template, it's bright and I think I've managed to keep it clean, too. Like some of my other templates, it's definitely simple and doesn't require a lot of ... http://leebaillie.co.uk/2008/04/30/free-css-template-im-clean-crisp/ I decided to spend an hour today fixing up a CSS template I did a couple of months ago, entitled Wordsworth. The template is Wordsworth 2 and, as the title alludes to, it is built for displaying text and images only. There are no fancy sidebars and there's not a lot ... http://leebaillie.co.uk/2008/04/29/free-css-template-wordsworth-2/ Yesterday, BBC News launched its new on-screen identity to a mixed reaction from Internet blog commenters. I have commented myself on the BBC Editors' Blogs. The remark was subsequently featured in the follow-up post by the editor, but I have seen something which sums up my opinion of the ... http://leebaillie.co.uk/2008/04/22/new-news-woes-comments-on-the-editors-blog/ BBC News 24 was revamped this morning and, as I predicted, I don't like it very much at all. The biggest change of all is clearly the dropping of the '24' in the name so we now have to call it 'BBC News'. Yes. Just BBC News. That won't confuse things ... http://leebaillie.co.uk/2008/04/21/bbc-news-24-revamp-a-cold-damp-stamp-on-broadcast-news/