Hey guys,
I’ve been researching finding good band sites to make suggestions for a client, and unfortunately, they are few and far between. Just in terms of layout, most are really, really bad, like RedHotChiliPeppers.com, Alanis.com or the aforementioned Jessica Simpson site. However, I do like Keane’s site, because it’s clean, intuitive, and has personality (and has the added bonus of being spiderable). Moby’s is a bit dull, but at least it’s understandable and doesn’t have random butterflies flittering everywhere.
Looking at it from a non-webmaster or SEO standpoint, as I know many of you are in that profession, what do you look for in a band site? What band sites do you like, and what ones are complete crap? What’s the info that you want when you visit the first time, and subsequent times?
March 22nd, 2007
posted in Music, Design, Top |
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Since music downloading has destroyed CD sales, Epic has resorted to putting up AdSense on some of its artists’ websites. Not only are most of the sites flash based, heavy, counter-intuitive, and, for the most part, really shitty (as is almost any musician/band site in the industry), Epic has decided to put AdSense on some of them as well. This includes Jennifer Lopez and (this one is painful) Jessica Simpson - see thumbnail.
Why would you stick an ad in prime visual real estate? Especially when the websites purpose is to sell the ARTIST (and her CD’s, incidentally). Here are just a few things wrong:
- If you’re trying to sell a product, DON’T monetize with advertising
- If you’ve made a flash site that’s supposed to be pretty, DON’T destroy the design with an ad designed to integrate with text content.
- Don’t put it it prime visual real estate.
- Don’t make sites entirely in flash. Please. There’s no good reason for it.
That’s about it. End rant.
March 21st, 2007
posted in Design, Top, Google Adsense, Monetizing |
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I happened to Stumble upon the best color palette tool I’ve seen yet. It shows monochromatic, analogous, triadic, tetradic, complimentary, and split complimentary schemes based on one color, and allows you to modify that color by hue, shade and tint.
I highly recommend checking out Colors on the Web!
February 10th, 2007
posted in Design, Links |
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