http://d956321.u54.sibrod.biz/default.aspx

Above is a link to a draft of my new website.
I'm interested to know

1. How fast it 'seems' to load
2. What impressions you get from it

It's not finished yet, and I still have some small images to add in the left hand column, but all opinions would be appreciated.

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Ceilidh Band Scotland
Wedding Music Scotland

Thanks pirate, needs work for sure. Put it up really just for somewhere to put the music. Had meant to do more work on the site but havn't got around to it. Shameful really i have worked as a web app programmer and all round graphicy type during the rest. The painters house is never painted.

its very springy but im on a very fast line. Thisnk its right on the money as far as design. Google have you with a name search, but .. scottish wedding music band doesnt find you easily. I use scrub the web at www.scrubtheweb.com . thy hav a meta tag checker which will give you som clues about search engine friendlyness and check your site. There are others. Like the rings!

Quote *gregster*:

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http://d956321.u54.sibrod.biz/default.aspx

Above is a link to a draft of my new website.
I'm interested to know

1. How fast it 'seems' to load
2. What impressions you get from it

It's not finished yet, and I still have some small images to add in the left hand column, but all opinions would be appreciated.

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I like it, better than the one I roiginaly saw i think a while back. Like the colour scheeme warm and inviting. it looks professional and loads well. Like the quote on the home page, i would add more like these as soon as you have them, it's OK to have a guest book with quotes from guests at the events you do but not everyone will look at it so it's good to put the quotes where they're more 'in yer face'.

Yes, I agree it needs the images somewhere to make the pages a bit livelier, like a nice one of a beautiful bride, some musicians in action, a wedding cake, that type of thing and different image in each page - make them full colour in my opinion. The site should say 'happy' - weddings are happy.

Incidently...
Liked clip 1 from the Jiggers, they were on the CtrlAltDeplete CD recently along with yours truly were they not? Excellent stuff.

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Edited by GlynB (10/06/05 11:43 AM)

Hi Glyn. I never got a copy of that CD, completely forgot about it! I'll need to see if I can track one down.
Thanks for your comments. I agree about all your suggestions. For the customer comments, I will have around 10 or so rotating comments. A lot of the comments I get will be going onto a comments page for the Jiggers on their own site, but around 10 should get the message across on this site in the meantime.

Also thanks openwater for your comments. SEO is the next area I'll be focussing on once the site is live. I'll be supporting it with a marketing drive to improve listings and business, so I figured best to do it all in a one'r.

g

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Ceilidh Band Scotland
Wedding Music Scotland

Edited by *gregster* (10/06/05 11:55 AM)

Sorry, I may have jumped the gun a bit by posting info about my site already. Don't you just hate ppl who barge in here waving a flag for their "pet project" and contribute little else?

Well, I only registered today so there's still time to rectify that

I've been checking out some of the sites on this thread already and there's some really cool stuff here!

Anyway, here's my twopence worth (again)
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I have a new website called Dubsounds which I hope some of you might be in to.

Our theme is analogue synth and drum machine sounds and music from 1970 to 1983. The fun part is that we host music, give out retro synth samples, VSTi FXP's and have a forum where you can get tech help or ask whatever burning question you might have.

We don't turn away the VSTi community either, (no snobbery thanks). To us, an Arturia or GMedia remodeled classic is still as valid, (with less reliability issues).

If you're into electroclash or never stopped playing Metamatic and Travelogue, you might like our little place.

We're still new, expanding rapidly and still have bags of enthusiasm! If you feel like joining our forum or signing up for the freebies it would be bloomin' marvelous to see you. We'll even get the kettle on

Cheers,

Shaun

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http://www.dubsounds.com
http://www.dubsounds.co.uk

Edited by Dubsounds (18/06/05 11:07 AM)

phew! its not finished yet but nearly there www.inpaindie.net we are most pleased with it..

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as metal as your nanna`s new hip

Like the design, most professional looking. good job.

Coupla observations...
The logo in the centre of the home page - when I clicked it didn't do anything? Is that work in progress or just a glitch?

The bio.
I wouldn't bother telling everyone about band members who didn't work out (so and so replaced x who left on bass then y came in , blah...) most people aren't really interested in that kind of detailed history stuff (unless you're a huge band with obsessive fans). Just tell us something really positive and interesting about your current band members. Accentuate the positive!

Hey, just my opinions, I'm no expert - hope it's constructive.

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Ha!!!!!!!
sofake!
cool.
Heh.

check out our site....

Goto www.emasters.co.uk

We've developed a site where you can upload your music to us and we'll master it for less than half the price we charge attended majors..

I'd be more than keen for you to tell us what you think we can change on the site to make it more user friendly..(go easy on me i'm a fresh boy here...)

cheers
streaky

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Ha!!!!!!!
sofake!
cool.
Heh.

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erm yeah wooo er thats what i thought as well, let me add my random sentence of guff to your meaningfull statement

meh your a toss boy.

now onto Glen who bothered to reply in a constructive manner, cheers Glen yeah clicking on the logo in the middle of the home page turns the music on and off theres just no button there yet, as for the bio thing thats really a nod towards ex memebers all of whom we are still friends with really, the `music` page was more the rousing work ethic speech bit lol if you get my meaning, its a fair comment you make tho and duly noted cheers

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as metal as your nanna`s new hip

Ice... cross-purpose turbulence may be tinkering with forum-space here.

Person was (I think) referring to the previous http://www.sofake.com/ ?

Indeed.

Turbulence is not good.

"sofake" however.......... Kicks butt, wooooooooooooooo!

Do you reckon they charge lots? I do.

*hangs head in shame*



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as metal as your nanna`s new hip

lol!

yeah jeesh. WTF.
LOL!
But seriously, I thought sofake was everybody's favorite.
Its a killer effect. Thought it was cool that you pulled it off.
rock on.

Edited by person man (24/06/05 08:23 PM)

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Thought it was cool that you pulled it off.
rock on.

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Hey personman, who pulled what off?.... No sniggering.

http://waitingfortheiceage.co.uk/

its in early stages... so be gentle! heh heh... 1 thing i need to do is make the jpegs smaller... i gotta compress them better...

and here is my site: http://marlowx.com/

alright look.
I am just trying to give the iceman props here. THATS ALL! Its an awesome effect. I have seen it before in sofake. Sofake is IMO making the best stuff on the web today. It is AWESOME that iceman has enough skill and taste to have done something simillar.

Was NO one else impressed by the kick ass transitions?!!!!????

Am I looking at a different site than the rest of you?

what gives?

Oh and hey gerard,
Both those sites are sweet! So is your car!

Just plain good design. (the sites I mean)

I hope you are done with iceage because it rocks just as it is! real chilled-out. its design is its content. Well that and tunes. Awesome.

Oh and I guess I meant sofake makes the best FLASH stuff. I really love a well made simple and sweet html site.

props.

Edited by person man (25/06/05 10:02 AM)

Might be worthwhile adding some meta data, and putting some info into an alt tag for the flash, to help searchability at www.inpaindie.net

hey thanks person man...

yeah, the waiting for the ice age site is pretty much done, just fine tuning some things... adding more photos and improving the text etc etc...

i just added a couple more audio files to the music section...

i recorded everyting in my home studio (spare bedroom)

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inpaindie web site has cool cinematic transitions...

rawk on dudes!

cheers for the comments guys, my cousin did the website for us, he knows his beans as they say, his sites are www.devilshands.com and www.double-yellow.com theres gonna be a chat room/tag board thing and a news ticker put on the front page as well, the meta tag thing im not sure what that is i`ll speak to my cousin tho and see what he says,

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as metal as your nanna`s new hip

Quote gerard:

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http://waitingfortheiceage.co.uk/

its in early stages... so be gentle! heh heh... 1 thing i need to do is make the jpegs smaller... i gotta compress them better...

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Yeah - it took 40 seconds before the splash loaded for me (and I have broadband!) - and during that time the page was just blank - I'm guessing most people would just think the site was dead. Likewise when you click the main menu options you don't get much feedback that anything is happening, it just looks broken.

Also your music page used some quicktime plugin that firefox didn't understand (and I have quicktime installed which is more than a lot of windows people do). It did work in IE6, but only the bottom half of the players showed and they were all bunched up at the top rather than lined up with the song names.

Sorry if that wasn't gentle, but I thought you'd like to know


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Midipicks - the all new MIDI Guitar forum...

I really love the colour combinations. The BOLD is very effective. Friendly and down-to-earth without being simplistic. Good call. I always love the use of watermarking and you've done a splendid job of it with the synths etc. A joy to look at.

All the best with the finishings.

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Just Press Play www.soundcloud.com/bravenote

Exciting, entertaining and unique. Not my style of music but, exceptional site IMO. Really liked the B&W watermark photos. Great job!

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Just Press Play www.soundcloud.com/bravenote

Quote GlynB:

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Like the design, most professional looking. good job.

Coupla observations...
The logo in the centre of the home page - when I clicked it didn't do anything? Is that work in progress or just a glitch?

The bio.
I wouldn't bother telling everyone about band members who didn't work out (so and so replaced x who left on bass then y came in , blah...) most people aren't really interested in that kind of detailed history stuff (unless you're a huge band with obsessive fans). Just tell us something really positive and interesting about your current band members. Accentuate the positive!

Hey, just my opinions, I'm no expert - hope it's constructive.

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The logo in the centre of the page is to start and stop the SoundFX

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Just Press Play www.soundcloud.com/bravenote

Even if I were Italian or Greek or Lithowanian I'd still hire you guys to play my wedding!. Jiggers. Excellant party band.

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Just Press Play www.soundcloud.com/bravenote

wahay, thanky!

The draft version of the site is updated, if anyone wants to comment. I've changed the LHS images, which are now a lot better.

bigdaymusic site draft
g

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Ceilidh Band Scotland
Wedding Music Scotland

Ok, a bit late I know... but here's mine!

minimism.com (active)

namke.com (stagnant)

I use a CMS (drupal) for the minimism site, and find it really good for adding/maintaining content...

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[MacBook/rev1 2.0GHz/2GB, OSX 10.6.x; Logic Express 7.2.3; Reaktor 5.6.x; too many vintage synths]
http://namke.com | http://minimism.com

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I really love the colour combinations. The BOLD is very effective. Friendly and down-to-earth without being simplistic. Good call. I always love the use of watermarking and you've done a splendid job of it with the synths etc. A joy to look at.

All the best with the finishings.

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Thanks BMW, that's realy encouraging. You highlighted all the bits I worked hardest on as being the things you liked. That's brilliant, cheers

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http://www.dubsounds.com
http://www.dubsounds.co.uk

minimism : I like that box. It should be sitting on a plain black background, with no lines or stars to disrupt the starkness of the image IMO. Nice tho

g

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Ceilidh Band Scotland
Wedding Music Scotland

got the `news` ticker up on the site you can drag it around woo hoo!! next up chatroom/forum

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as metal as your nanna`s new hip

oh go on then!This is my bands site. There's mp3s on there and all sorts of pics and stuff. www.smokescreenweb.co.uk
enjoy!

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www.smokescreenweb.co.uk
MacBook Pro. Digi003. Octopre LE.

Finally got my design sorted, this is the one!!!

Any comments, etc.. or if you want some free webhosting just shout!

www.msweb.co.uk

Laurence...

(p.s. i'm going to increase the transparency on the anime image, to make the text clearer )

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P.I.G.L.E.T - where is polly?

Just had a squizz at your site and it has the top cut off, and i cant seem to adjust the browser (IE) to view it properly.

The drawing has the top of the characters head cut off and you can see some text, but as i say it's too high up, forgive my luddite/crude description but i thought i would mention it to you.

Did you draw the pic? Pencil? It's cool.

Ah well, here's mine...

www.richardhanson.me.uk

Mostly synth instrumentals, with the odd guitar thrown in and the occasional proper song.

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* Soundcloud *
* Bandcamp *

I've just relaunced the site, with new images (courtesy of smelly_kid).

Proper links (and explanations) to all the songs I've done this year, (plus all the old favourites with some additional notes)

A newBlog page.

A Comments form on everypage and a possible reason to (or if you don't like my music a reason no to) join the mailing list. So you can mail me direct and not have to vent your anger or love on any public forums.

Blank tab sheets (bass and guitar), plus a tips section for all you home recordists and budding songwriters.

So, if you enjoy an eclectic mix of ambient jazz pop rock indie punk soundtracks, pop along to the Hair Thieves website.

http://www.hairthieves.com

Rollasoc

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http://www.hairthieves.com
http://www.myspace.com/thehairthieves

http://www.ess-k.com

I did it myself, so not the best site around lol, but I have used a flash plugin player for the music, and obviously left a link to credit the maker of that flash player.
Its just a basic design, but neat and tidy!

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Listen to my Dance/Club music here;
http://www.ess-k.com

Hi

First time on the new forum.

My own music can be found here:

johnmoxey.com

I also founded Songstuff a few years ago. I wrote almost all the backend php and the database design. Some site sections are 3rd party source, but not many.

I have written several of the articles on songwriting, guitar and music technology.

Cheers

John

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My Music Page
My Songstuff Page

HEY That TACO things looks very simple and nice

will chk it out just d/ling

bIg thanx

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aural orgasms