Pajter Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 Hi everyone! I just launched the new website for my band Stroave. Spent about a month designing and coding it. Pretty satisfied with the result, but some feedback is always welcome. :) Check it out if you want: stroave.com Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Des429 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 i agree with what the person above said about not using javascript to change the bg image. what if the user doesnt have javascript enabled? try using css before resorting to javascript for something like that. you'd be surprised at what you can get done with CSS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pajter Posted April 12, 2010 Author Share Posted April 12, 2010 Why not use this: body { background: url(bg.jpg) center center; } i agree with what the person above said about not using javascript to change the bg image. what if the user doesnt have javascript enabled? try using css before resorting to javascript for something like that. you'd be surprised at what you can get done with CSS. I'm afraid it's a bit more complicated than that. The effect I've achieved there, did not work using only CSS. However, you'll find that if you disable Javascript completely, the site still works. There's some minor "flaws" in the layout, but nothing that I really care about. So yeah, I did test and design with Javascript disabled. On a semi-related note, I like your band's sound. I think I'll check the promo kit out, do you guys mind if I pass the website around to a few friends? Thanks! Of course you're allowed to pass the website around! That would be great. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sw1tch.. Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Very nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Des429 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 could you add on to the box on the bottom right that is streaming the song you have on there? it just looks slightly lopsided to the left because the music box is a little too short and doesnt line up with the myspace box. btw, GREAT effect on the bio page with the fade in/fade out if bandmembers!! love it and very original.. also i cant really tell how well this will look and i dont want to clutter the design, but what if you put something like a 2px SUPER subtle border around each box that was a slightly lighter grey than the box background. just to try to get it to POP a little more off the screen so it doesnt as flat, but without taking away from the clean look of it. if you do this make sure the color is only SLIGHTLY lighter than the background color. very subtle stuff. idk just an idea you could fool around with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pajter Posted April 12, 2010 Author Share Posted April 12, 2010 could you add on to the box on the bottom right that is streaming the song you have on there? it just looks slightly lopsided to the left because the music box is a little too short and doesnt line up with the myspace box. I'm not sure what you mean. Could you maybe attach a screenshot to illustrate your point? also i cant really tell how well this will look and i dont want to clutter the design, but what if you put something like a 2px SUPER subtle border around each box that was a slightly lighter grey than the box background. just to try to get it to POP a little more off the screen so it doesnt as flat, but without taking away from the clean look of it. if you do this make sure the color is only SLIGHTLY lighter than the background color. very subtle stuff. idk just an idea you could fool around with Yeah I did fool around with that at first, but it just didn't really click for me. So in the end, I decided to keep the boxes flat. Maybe there's something else I can do to make the important boxes pop out more. Not sure if any box is more important than the other though. Will have to think about that. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Des429 Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 well, what if you made the background of the boxes slightly transparent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pajter Posted April 13, 2010 Author Share Posted April 13, 2010 well, what if you made the background of the boxes slightly transparent? That's something I personally don't fancy at all, sorry. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Des429 Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 ya i understand. just trying to come up with some quick ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pajter Posted April 13, 2010 Author Share Posted April 13, 2010 ya i understand. just trying to come up with some quick ideas. I appreciate it! :) If anyone's still lurking in this topic for the vids I promised, I uploaded one song just now. It's available on the website, in the media section. :) There's another song we did, I'll upload that one as soon as I have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Descartes Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Hah, it looks great. The logo looks co corporate though, and not like a rock/metal band's logo :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pajter Posted April 13, 2010 Author Share Posted April 13, 2010 Hah, it looks great. The logo looks co corporate though, and not like a rock/metal band's logo :p Lol.. Yeah I wanted a bit of a tight look. I'm not at all into tribals or gothic and all that stuff. Besides, there wasn't much else I could make out of the name "Stroave". :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Asharae Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 I personally think that the site looks amazing! I see your using a php backend, is that custom wrote or is it an off the shelf cms? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pajter Posted April 14, 2010 Author Share Posted April 14, 2010 Thanks! I wrote it myself. Couldn't really find a CMS light enough to suit my needs, so I thought I would just make a simple one myself. But as always, it ended up being more work than I initially thought. :laugh: Works great now though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 maceman Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Great work congratulations. Really pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ashpowell Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 I added a favicon. Best thing I could come up with in 16*16px and with our logo. I'll change it though if I think of something better. :) Also made the a:hover addition on the top menu. yeah favicons are quite hard to make them look good with them being so small.... I think you should do the V in the title to just the main icon for the favicon :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pajter Posted April 14, 2010 Author Share Posted April 14, 2010 yeah favicons are quite hard to make them look good with them being so small.... I think you should do the V in the title to just the main icon for the favicon :) That was my first idea as well. Unfortunately I couldn't get it right. Whichever way I tried, the style looked very 90's. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hi everyone!
I just launched the new website for my band Stroave.
Spent about a month designing and coding it. Pretty satisfied with the result, but some feedback is always welcome. :)
Check it out if you want: stroave.com
Thanks in advance!
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