Members Ivor The Engine Driver Posted January 13, 2006 Members Share Posted January 13, 2006 Hi, My band, the Love Experts, are revamping our website. Would love to see just a few examples of relatively simple (no fancy-schmancy flash) but "elegant" and "stylish" sites to look to for inspiration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thisboyshouts Posted January 13, 2006 Members Share Posted January 13, 2006 What do you think of ours? It's PHP driven so anyone can edit content (news, gigs, photos etc.) over the web, in a password restricted aread of the site. www.greyhoundgreen.co.uk (please ignore the temporarily missing link!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members english_bob Posted January 13, 2006 Members Share Posted January 13, 2006 Link in the sig. Ours is powered by a program written by a friend of the band's whose business is in IT, web design and ultimately in world domination. It took about an hour or two to get set up, and all the text fields are editable by any of us in the band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sonaboy Posted January 13, 2006 Members Share Posted January 13, 2006 Originally posted by Ivor The Engine Driver Hi,My band, the Love Experts, are revamping our website. Would love to see just a few examples of relatively simple (no fancy-schmancy flash) but "elegant" and "stylish" sites to look to for inspiration. well, we were after pretty much the same thing - we wanted the site to look cohesive, but simple, with a few tricks under the hood with no flash embedding. so we picked 3 colors and went with it.aside from the media page where color photos skew the color theme, we think we got a pretty unique looking site with only three pages. simplicity - each regular page has only 2 columns of content, one large banner image, and we try and limit the amount of hyperlinks to outside sites. tricks - the top navigation banner has 3 symbols that appear in the large left hand window on mouse-over.the media page is constructed of about 40 layers, each photo being a mouse-over layer with no breakout browser window to view them. in the works: a customized media player to play our music, instead of the normal quicktime loader on it's own page. have a look:Actors&Actresses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members weebz Posted January 13, 2006 Members Share Posted January 13, 2006 ours. www.and5makes20.com although, i wish my bass player would update it more often, there are about 3 shows missing off the "tour" section Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members english_bob Posted January 13, 2006 Members Share Posted January 13, 2006 One thing I wish we hadn't bothered with (and it's only been there a few days) is the message board on our website. It's getting trolled, but not posted on by anyone genuine. How crap is that? It wasn't my idea to put it there, and personally I don't think our site is well visited enough to warrant it. Any ideas on how to make our site more worth visiting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members weebz Posted January 13, 2006 Members Share Posted January 13, 2006 Originally posted by english_bob Any ideas on how to make our site more worth visiting? Just keep on plugging it at your shows. btw, that thinline tele (adam's) is dead sexy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ScreamCage Posted January 13, 2006 Members Share Posted January 13, 2006 Originally posted by sonaboy have a look:Actors&Actresses Oh wow. I actually said that out loud when I saw your site. It's gorgeous, man! Interpol has a pretty simple website. You can replace the fade-in banners with solid ones, and I'd wager that you'd have a simple, easy to load site.http://www.interpolnyc.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nosferatu123 Posted January 13, 2006 Members Share Posted January 13, 2006 http://www.stilldivision.com/ Good ole Stoney Stomp's band... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ScreamCage Posted January 13, 2006 Members Share Posted January 13, 2006 Originally posted by english_bob Any ideas on how to make our site more worth visiting? First things first, I'd set it up where the words look right. I was looking in the Band section, and the pictures of the band mates cover up most of their biographies. Also, I just think that some of the graphics are kind of boring (the links at the top of the page, for example). I do like the over all concept, though. Also, in the Band section, there's that picture of lead guy on acoustic, and I get the feeling that it's supposed to be the whole band, but it's just the lead guy. Plus his pants don't fit him (sorry if that's you...no, really, I'm very sorry for you;)). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cantoXIII Posted January 13, 2006 Members Share Posted January 13, 2006 Originally posted by sonaboy have a look: Actors&Actresses beautiful site man. the setup that you have is usually how i build my sites. one main graphic which is the actual website structure, then every page just opens inside the iframe inside whatever border is created. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HeHateMe Posted January 13, 2006 Members Share Posted January 13, 2006 My band's site (see da sig) is fancy & flashy... but there's also a straight HTML version as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sonaboy Posted January 13, 2006 Members Share Posted January 13, 2006 Originally posted by cantoXIII beautiful site man. the setup that you have is usually how i build my sites. one main graphic which is the actual website structure, then every page just opens inside the iframe inside whatever border is created. Good deal...we got ours for the low price of $350. :D * prices in your area may vary.* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members iodine74 Posted January 13, 2006 Members Share Posted January 13, 2006 These are freinds of mine. I've done a little guitar work for them. And we all used to be in a different band. It's pretty simple. http://www.starring-me.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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