The BBC News website is gearing up to unveil its new look which will include wider pages and bigger images, according to website editor Steve Herrmann. The current look dates back to 2003 and it is showing its age. After all, Internet time moves at a faster pace than regular time. But one of the most welcomed changes will be the use of Flash embedded video, rather than pop-ups in

The BBC has finally started to roll out the use of embedded video in Flash, after a successful trial last year. The trial found, unsurprisingly, that people liked having the video as an embedded Flash file in story pages. One of the first stories to use the new player was a behind the scenes look at Google’s approach to office space on the BBC News website’s technology index. Up until

Audio slideshows have become a standard feature of many news websites, largely due to Soundslides by Joe Weiss. For the uninitiated, Soundslides is a easy-to-use tool to produce still image and audio presentations in Flash, without the need for coding skills. This is just as well, as only one of my journalism students has any experience of Flash. But this is the way it should be. Being a multimedia journalist

Video online is one of the big growth areas on the web. When I was involved in setting up the BBC News website in 1997, video meant small, blurry images in Real Player. 10 years later, visitors to the BBC from outside the UK still have to put up with the same small video clips in either Real Player or Windows Media Player. Broadband quality video is only available to