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Archive for July, 2008
Ghostie’s MySpace v1.0
Ghostie is the music-making alias of a friend of mine who is particularly pale. He pretty much gave me free reign to make whatever I wanted, and this is what I made: http://www.myspace.com/therealghostie
His layout is clean and easy, with all the content in one box rather than being split up and all the non-essentials on the page removed.
Its v1.0 for now; we’ll probably change some stuff later.
PowerThirst MySpace
PowerThirst is one of the two bands from the Young Musician’s Club this summer. They’re metal. They’re scary.
Here’s the logo and MySpace I made for them: http://www.myspace.com/powerthirstwillmeltyourface
Right now, it’s all dummy text and the CSS is pristine. Depending on when you visit and how much they alter things, it may or may not look anything like these images.
The crowning achievement for this one is the use of semi-transparent PNGs in floating DIVs to splatter “kool-aid” on top of the content. Super classy.
This is actually the first MySpace layout I’ve made entirely from scratch, CSS and all. I’m pretty proud of myself. It works in all major browsers and systems, including IE6, which I can’t believe people are still using because it’s a complete piece of garbage.
I’ve got a couple more to make for YMC and a buddy of mine. I’ll post them as I finish them.
Tommy and the Tommies - “Kicks” and “If I Had My Drumset”
Oh, hey, here’s some more of these videos from that thing I did a long time ago.
This one is called “Kicks,” and it may or may not be about some shoes.
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And this one is called “If I Had My Drumset.” It’s another Musical Gold song and is about how I miss the drumset I used to play when I was in high school and how it sucks to live in an apartment when you want to make lots of noise.
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It’s a little cringe-worthy there at the beginning. I think I learned a valuable lesson about having the man at the controls know when to adjust the levels. I also learned a valuable lesson about expecting people to follow along to non-traditional clapping rhythms.
Have I mentioned that the audio from the “Tommy and the Tommies” album sounds monstrously better than the audio in these videos? I haven’t?! Well, it does!
The Young Musician’s Club WordPress Site
The Young Musician’s Club is a not-for-profit summer program for teenage rock musicians here in Muncie. Now in its third year, the program gets young, aspiring musicians together to socialize and start bands, all in a safe, structured environment where they can hone their craft. It’s run by the guy who owns the Launching Pad, the venue where I had my Tommies show, and is ended there each summer with a concert exhibiting all the new bands.
This is my second year working with the group. It’s been my job to maintain the club’s website, take pictures of the bands, help them develop their imagery and online persona (like, you know, MySpace), and then film the final concert and make DVDs for the kids.
I’ve been fiddling with the site for awhile now, fixing bugs and such, but just recently decided it was good enough to really show people.
The big push this year was making the whole thing run on WordPress, instead of the old school, static HTML site I made last year.
I used WordPress Naked, a minimalist, skeleton WP theme, as a starting point, then merged it with the CSS and images created for last year’s site (archived here). Plugin props to Cleaner WordPress Gallery for helping to tame the WP gallery beast.
