It’s a good week for MySpace as they finally seem to be doing significant with the site to make it a bit more ‘web 2.0′. For the last few months users have been able to decide between the classic homepage or a plain white new homepage. Now users can choose a theme for the new look homepage which actually makes it a bit more worth using. I’m still not too sure about whether to use the new one or not as the old one was so much easier to use. Personally I think MySpace needs almost a complete redesign with a new structure, aiming somewhere near Facebook’s design with much consistancy and navigation in the same place on every page of the site. Here’s some screencaps for the pleasure of viewing for people who don’t have MySpace.

2 of the new homepage themes

The classic theme which has graced our screens for ages
In my humble opinion, MySpace need’s to sort it’s self out and apply a new design to all of the pages of the site, anything which isn’t the homepage hasn’t really changed although I have spotted some nice AJAX in use in places like on Facebook where a dialog can popup for adding friends for example rather than having to open a new page.

The BBC are currently in the same position - they have redesigned the homepage which is on offer as a beta but haven’t yet made changes to the rest of the site. It kind of reminds me of the HTC Touch where you have a good looking touch screen design home