We are updating the whole website with a new layout.
For all inconvenience we would like to apologize in advance.
If there are deadlinks, or links that are not working properly give us a hint, please.
We hope that everything is done at Oct. 8th 2008 around 11am CET (Central European Time).
Please feel free to post any feedback about the new look :)
IMHO, it has a clear structure and has potential to lead everyone to the information he needs first.
Good balance between graphical ambience and functionality.
Only thing I've found yet: The "Home" site still does not invite passers-by to have a quick glance at the music or poems. We may should set some focus on passers-by, for they will have to see first what the site is like - but without feeling one should sign in before having a walk through.
This could either be achieved by adding two sections: Sawubona Player, and any excerpt from poems factory (Niran's poem like in "ABOUT" section, a link to Poems Factory, or a random poem), to HOME page. I fear Dieters little hint in his comment at page bottom to visit "community" might be overlooked.
anyway it might be a good idea to give that great new big b&w pictogram some link functionality like:
The Guitarist pictogram section: Link to Music Factory
The Pen (feather) pic: Link to Poems Factory
The Charity Cross: Link to project description
By the way: Is the "Red Cross" symbol royalty free or licensed?
thank you for the feedback! The idea withe the links in the head-image is great!
I really have no clue why we didn't see that on our own... I will put this on my 'Today - to-do-list'
Idea of new Music Factory is good, access is faster now.
Still I'm afraid that the points we discussed on that Friday phonecalls are not implemented yet - such as:
* Keep all tracks of a song from being displayed as long as no Project is selected
* Therefore the object hierarchy is still not clear. Should be strictly
SONG => PROJECT => TRACKS
* You have to know there's a difference from clicking the graphical block of a project / track, or by hitting within that the link name of it.....
* The attributes to fill out per upload still won't align to that hierarchy
* Auto approval for known contributors is not there yet.
* Poems Podcast category is still missing
Functionality:
- everything should work without problems, tha last runthrough was fine. If there is something that is not working for you, give me a shout please!
To-Do-List:
- Some minor style-changes, some more color there, a bit less here... you know what I mean :)
- There is something wrong with the custom profile themes, we are working on that right now
- The links on the head image (sry Carsten, that was not possible today)
- Another cup of coffee for me. You can admit that this is fixed within the next 3minutes :-)
Carsten mentioned one point >>By the way: Is the "Red Cross" symbol royalty free or licensed?<<
We are not sure, so we exchanged the images just to avoid any copyright-problems... and to be honest, i like this version even more :)
In addition to this, we exchanged the icon for the musicplayer.
Manuela found a link which was working, but not with the right destination *nice*
Further more, I want to mention that she took care of our Profile at MySpace. *thumbs up*