My band's website is almost done

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I've been working on this for my band Three After.

http://www.threeafter.com

It's pretty basic but it looks clean to me and is easy to navigate which I think are very important things. Also has fully functional comments system in the journal and news areas as well as a fully functional message boards.

Let me know what you think. Thanks.
 
I like it. I'd get rid of the frames though, the same thing can be done with CSS/JavaScript. If you know how to do that, otherwise it's not too big of a deal.

The message board looks nice. The flash part at top looks good too. A lot of things seem to be reliant on flash like the "Contact us" that don't really need to be, but most people have flash anyway...

I think the content in the middle box could use some styling...a different font besides Times New Roman (maybe Trebuchet MS for the bold text and something like Georgia or Lucida Sans Unicode for the other text).

The store part looks fine, but the other things in the middle frame just need a little more visual appeal, right now they look kind of plain/like you haven't gotten to that part yet.
 
Yea, I do rely heavily on flash. I know the contact us could just be a php script like the news and journal are. I just like using the inline frames for the content area so people don't have to keep loading the menu. I figure most people have a flash capable browser, and if it is flash capable it can handle the inline frame.

Yes, things like the events page and links and such will get spruced up graphically at some point. I just used basic table borders for now to get it functional which to me is the most important thing. I'll probably do the news and journal pages with some nice graphic borders too not just the plain line borders. Right now the black backround is temporary until I can get some kind of nice neutral dark backgound image.

I'll look into some standard texts that I can impliment into the CSS to make the pages standout a bit more. I just have to make sure they are web friendly and people won't need to download anything.

With the java script, is it just loading the content into a certain x and y cordinates on the screen or something? I havn't done anything with java for a long time. Since school pretty much.
 
monkeymanx said:
Yea, I do rely heavily on flash. I know the contact us could just be a php script like the news and journal are. I just like using the inline frames for the content area so people don't have to keep loading the menu. I figure most people have a flash capable browser, and if it is flash capable it can handle the inline frame.

Yes, things like the events page and links and such will get spruced up graphically at some point. I just used basic table borders for now to get it functional which to me is the most important thing. I'll probably do the news and journal pages with some nice graphic borders too not just the plain line borders. Right now the black backround is temporary until I can get some kind of nice neutral dark backgound image.

I'll look into some standard texts that I can impliment into the CSS to make the pages standout a bit more. I just have to make sure they are web friendly and people won't need to download anything.

With the java script, is it just loading the content into a certain x and y cordinates on the screen or something? I havn't done anything with java for a long time. Since school pretty much.
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In javascript/CSS you would have a simple <div> </div> area in place of the iframe. JavaScript would just change the content in that div. CSS would style that div so there would be scrollbars: <div name="content" id="content" style="overflow: scroll">Content</div>.

I don't know the JavaScript code, but here's one example:
http://www.codeproject.com/jscript/dcontent.asp

And more results:
http://www.google.com/search?client...ript+change+content+of+div&btnG=Google+Search
 
You know, I'm a fan of flash but the first page and the way it scrolls off simply doesn't have to be... all the material can fit on a single page. If you're planning to keep gig-calendar, maybe a seperate tab for it or a seperate pane for it but the main "who we are" should be simple clean and in your face without having to mouse around to read it.

A logo or background wouldn't hurt.

Other than that, I like it.
 
The first page is the news section. I'm not exactly sure how I can fit multiple news posts into the box there unless the text is reall small or something.

Unless you mean you have to scroll from the menu to the box... I havn't tested the page in any resolution lower than 1024x768 because I figured nobody is lower than that at this point but maybe I should look at 800x600.

I thought the div tag wasn't supported by every browser. I will look into it though and see what I can do. If I could just load a page with the boarder instead of the iframe that may do the trick but I'm not exactly sure what the advantage is over the iframe.

Background and logo are all coming. My main goal was functionality.
 
punkin said:
You know, I'm a fan of flash but the first page and the way it scrolls off simply doesn't have to be... all the material can fit on a single page. If you're planning to keep gig-calendar, maybe a seperate tab for it or a seperate pane for it but the main "who we are" should be simple clean and in your face without having to mouse around to read it.

A logo or background wouldn't hurt.

Other than that, I like it.
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Actually, I like the idea of a gig calander on a seperate page. Thanks for the idea. If I do that, I can eliminate one of the links and condense the content box as well making is bit more accessible. I'm going to do it in a bit.
 
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