Doctor Who website

For the purposes of this wiki, the Doctor Who website is deemed to be the main site operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation for the purposes of marketing and giving value added material for Doctor Who.

Original form
Prior to the advent of the BBC Wales series, it was founded at http://bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho, where it organised information about the show as a more-or-less "concluded" show that had run from 1963 to 1989, with a brief return in 1996. That address still points to the "classic" section of the modern website.

RTD era
Beginning with Rose, the cult page was de-emphasized, and the main Doctor Who website address became http://bbc.co.uk/doctorwho. During the RTD, BBC Online worked extensively with the Doctor Who production office to deliver a considerable amount of content for the show, particularly when it was actively in season. Each episode got its own home page, and each of these home pages had extensive content, ranging from interviews to Doctor Who Confidential snippets, to flash video games.

The website got a fairly extensive facelift in 2008 for the Donna Noble season, and it stayed with this "series 4" design until David Tennant left the programme.

In very general terms, webpages developed for the site during this period were characterised by a red colour palate.

Moffat era
In 2010, the Doctor Who website underwent radical simplification, with all parts of the BBC website being made to follow a more modular, unified design. Though still active, the volume of new material flowing into the Doctor Who website radically decreased.

Broadly speaking, webpages during this time were readily identifiable by their blue colour palate.