Re: TIVO ALERT !!! - New Series on DHL

[Calum Morrell <calum@xxxxxxx>]

Keith Doxey wrote:
> Hi Calum,
>
> Bugger !!!! ( not you..... my typing )
>
> www.homeandleisure.co.uk/barnfree
>
> was what I should have put. The URL I posted was the one used in the
trailer
> EXCEPT that it didnt have the trailing slash. Without that it
redirected to
> the URL you posted. I chose the shorter one so that it wouldnt wrap.
:-(
>
> Dont you hate the way that TV companies cant be consistant in the
format of
> their URL's. The BBC tend to use www.bbc.co.uk/<progname> for
programmes
> specific websites such as Eastenders and TOTP etc. I remember when
Amber was
> a lot smaller, trying to go to the Teletubbies website and getting the
> messages that the URL was actually www.bbc.co.uk/education/teletubbies
which
> although that is no longer the URL does actually redirect to
> www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/teletubbies. The BBC seem to have got their
site well
> sorted now as it doesnt matter whether you use the trailing slash or
not and
> as long as there is a programme name in there somewhere seems to get
you to
> the right place. Well done Beeb.

sent at 6:07am? I'd be impressed if I wasn't already out doing some
shopping by then ;)

err yes, H&L have some way to go, like adding useful info about the
programs. For some reason the short like doesn't work in Mozilla, so
even if you'd got it right first time, I'd probably still have emailed
the full version for those of us no using IE.

BBC are certainly a LOT better than they used to be .. I remember in '95
or '96 trying to get to The Beechgrove Garden's webpage, which must have
been several layers deep and an absolute nightmare to navigate to!! One
thing that really irks me just now tho, type in a place name to the 5
day weather forecast boxa and even if only one entry is returned and an
exact match, it still insists on asking if that's the right one and
making you click on it :@

and don't even get me started on the wrappers for these eclairs... grrr

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Calum Morrell
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