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Here’s another YMC MySpace. It’s been up for awhile, but I’ve just finished giving it a total code revamp.

Looky: http://www.myspace.com/damasses

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As always, depending on when you look at it, it may or may not look anything like the picture, bla bla blah.

New to this one:

• Fixed height of top navigation and ad bar. No more hidden/covered content when AdBlock is running.
• Increased efforts to have everything identical cross browser. Probably as perfect as it can get on my end without covering the whole thing in a new layer.
• A band name that’s funny because it sounds like “dumb-asses.”

I think that’s it. Time for bed.

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

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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.

http://youngmusiciansclub.com/

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.

Just experimenting with coloring quick sketches in Photoshop. It’s not quite as satisfying as breaking out the Crayolas, but it gets the job done.

Also, drawing hills is funny because sometimes it looks like butts.