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British Comedy Guide - New Look Guide Preview
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Mark said:
Remember the plans to re-launch this website as The British Comedy Guide? Believe it or not it is actually still going to happen! There's currently a lot of work going on behind-the-scenes to get it ready to (finally) launch this summer.
I'd like to thank all the contributors who have been using our system to input data over the last month - there's some really fantastic and in-depth guides going into the database at the moment. Cheers for all the time and effort you've put into them!
(If you want to contribute but are not sure what's going on do PM or email me!)
We've now reached a position in the development where I can reveal our intended new guide design... take a look here:
http://www.comedy.org.uk/guide/tv/teenage_kicks/
As you can see, it doesn't look that different from the current BSG design... but hopefully you'll agree it is neater and also does a better job of allowing us to cover a comedy in some depth.
At the moment it's only the Teenage Kicks pages which can be seen - all the other links will return you to the BSG. Also please bear in mind this is just a slimmed-down version of the final programme guides - when the new website launches there will also be other features like actor profiles and a system which allows you to add your own review of the comedy (these extras are hidden away at the moment as we're not ready for people to begin to use them yet)
Please let us know your thoughts on this draft... I'm especially interested to hear of anything you don't like or details on anything that isn't working in your browser (currently one known issue: slightly fatter-than-it-should-be menu bar in IE6)
When I'm satisfied that everyone is generally happy with the design and that it works on everyone's PCs we will permanently switch our Teenage Kicks guide over to this new design. Our guides to other new comedies (e.g. shows like Benidorm, Pulling, Gavin and Stacey and My Family) will then shortly follow this.
It'll still be a few months before the rest of the website is ready to launch (with all the other guides it contains) but at least this way our coverage of new comedies can benefit from the improvements straight away.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Jake How said:
Thanks looks really good.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
It's like sex on a bus; a little uncomfortable and bumpy at first, but somewhat dangerous, exciting, and thrilling by the end.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, EllieJP said:
It looks nice. 
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Spike said:
Nice layout.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, dannyjb1 said:
Quote: Aaron @ April 3 2008, 5:06 PM BSTIt's like sex on a bus; a little uncomfortable and bumpy at first, but somewhat dangerous, exciting, and thrilling by the end.
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I once had sex ON a bus, well until we came to that low bridge
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Curt said:
Cool stuff man looks really good. Clean and factual. I like the user rating thing a lot by the way.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, thing said:
I never had mine cos I scored 5/6 on my Heaf test. 
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Paul W said:
I'm liking the new site, very much a cleaned up version of this one.
Looking forward to the new mod features 
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Jake How said:
What new mod features ?
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
You'll find out if you become a mod!
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Jake How said:
Ok but how much more power can you be given ?
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
Levitation.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Quote: zooo @ April 5 2008, 10:37 PM BSTLevitation.
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Brilliant.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, thing said:
Quote: Jake How @ April 5 2008, 9:16 PM BSTOk but how much more power can you be given ?
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Qualify as a Social Worker.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Paul W said:
Quote: Jake How @ April 5 2008, 9:16 PM BSTOk but how much more power can you be given ?
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What does it matter? And A lot more MWHAHAHAHAHA!
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Curt said:
Quote: zooo @ April 5 2008, 10:37 PM BSTLevitation.
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very cool power...but not of much use in a forum eh?
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, thing said:
Quote: thing @ April 5 2008, 8:00 PM BSTI never had mine cos I scored 5/6 on my Heaf test.
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Ok, maybe that went over a few heads but I'll give most of u credit for just thinking I was being pedantic.
Seriously though, for potential new users are you going to sort out searchability?
Can't imagine, if new people are looking for the site, they will be too much interested in the JABS forum, Bradford Curry Guide forum or, and I kid u not, the COCKROACH forum?
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Erm...?
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, thing said:
was that a question mark?
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
I think so. It certainly looked like one.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, thing said:
If it's going to be British Comedy Guide google searching throws those up from BCG forums.
Like I say, maybe pedantic.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Oh right, I follow now. Yes, well, once we launch I'm sure that Google will rank us much higher on that particular phrase.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Mark said:
Quote: thing @ April 8 2008, 12:06 AM BSTIf it's going to be British Comedy Guide google searching throws those up from BCG forums.
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It's a good point, don't worry - I've got a plan up my sleeve for the searching!
As it happens you won't see the phrase 'BCG' appearing much on the new website - I don't like the acronym: it reminds me of the BCG jab everyone got in school, and also it stands for 'The Board for Certification of Genealogists', we don't want to be confused with them
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Paul W said:
Well Aaron/ Mark, I'm a long standing member of the British Cunt Guild so this better not screw their site ranking up!