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New Website Unveiling
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:13 pm
by jayshields
Good evening
Ok, you could call this advertising, but it's not my site

So I'm just giving you bored guys something to do and sharing my excitement.
One of my favourite local bands are launching their new website at midnight (GMT) tonight, and supposedly it's awesome (no ones seen it yet but I've talked to the programmer). I've heard all, or most, of it is done in PHP.
Anyway, the URL is
http://www.thelongshots.co.uk - at the moment it's just a countdown until midnight when the site goes live.
Sorry if this is classed as advertising, but I just thought I'd share it, when it's live, post some opinions on it or whatever and I'll pass any constructive criticism to the programmer or get him to look here.
Cheers dudes.

Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:42 pm
by Ambush Commander
Okay, first problem, site doesn't work without JavaScript... oh wait, that's because it's a countdown. Hmph. At least could have displayed a little warning.
Graphics look okay...
6 hours. Hmm...
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:57 pm
by jayshields
6 hours? Hmm, are you in America? It's actually one hour away from opening now.
Oh, and the graphics (the wing things) are actually hand drawn by the bassist

Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:49 pm
by Roja
Pretty sweet design. The html is literally just a hair away from compliance on most pages.. tell em to fix it!
Honestly impressive.
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:56 pm
by Ambush Commander
Slick HTML too. Not so crazy about the fonts though.
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:57 pm
by ody
so when is the Manchester tour?

Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:15 pm
by nincha
horrible site.
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:19 pm
by Chris Corbyn
nincha wrote:horrible site.
Please can we be constructive. It's incredibly insulting to just say it's horrible without giving any reasons as to what you think could be done better....

Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:08 pm
by d3ad1ysp0rk
Nice site, my only suggestion is to try centering it and see if you like it more that way.
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:43 pm
by RobertPaul
In general it's too cramped, IMO. The nav links are too close together ... it just feels like one big block of text.
But I dig the music, and that's what counts.
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 1:30 am
by m3mn0n
Moved topic to UI Design/Usability forum.
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:51 am
by Charles256
way to cramped for my liking...
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 11:08 am
by jayshields
Cheers for the input, personally, I think the graphics are nice, majority being hand drawn.
I got the new CD on now, it rocks
If you go on the band profile, my brother is "Sy Pinkeye", they are playing in Leeds on Tuesday, I'm off

They're playing in Bradford tonight but I'm giving it a miss.
Yeah, the first thing I said to him was you should've centred it, and he said nah, but as a personal preference, I centre everything. If you haven't already downloaded the songs, get them, they're awesome.
I reckon he should've embedded the Guestbook into the website aswell, but a problem there was that the Guestbook was open before the website. If anyone in the UK watched the countdown go to 0, it auto-redirected you to the site, which was smoooooth
Oh, and I don't know if a Manchester tour is planned or not... check the Gigs bit.
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 4:26 pm
by php3ch0
I would suggest making the text font a bit larger I have to strain to read it.
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:46 pm
by alex.barylski
Meh...
I personally hate scrolling windows inside windows...
The design is clearly not done by a true professional desiner...although better than I could personally do as far as illustrations, etc...
It's still not that "cool" which any band, tattoo shop, radio station should be striving for...
Here is a site of a wicked band and a much cooler web site:
http://www.thousandfootkrutch.com/
Although i'm not Christian - hell I don't even believe in god...the band kiss some serious a$$ and they have a pretty cool web site to boot
Cheers
