And now for the second part in our series “Doesn’t Bill Have Anything Better To Do?”

Without further ado, I present to you comp #2:

With this style, I moved away from the wonderful rounded corners that have given me such warm and fuzzy feelings with the first comp. Of note, I did decide on keeping the “From Us / From You” labeling. The more I searched my soul, the more I realized it was appropriate for the goal.

This design also takes the “Where I Live” from the current site and turns it into “My BBC.” Also in this area is a social bookmarking system.

By reincorporating the advert, more flexibility is given to the design. I chose to elevate the TV and Radio fields due simply to their relation to the banner. This design would change those items depending on what is in the banner space.

By moving the sidebar into the middle (sort of negates the label, huh?), I am using it as a definitive design element. It manages to serve multiple services while maintaining my goal resolution of 800×600.

I like this design worlds better than my first comp, thus making the baseline from now on. In fact, the next may be the final comp, just a slightly tweak version of this.

Let me know what you think.

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