RockSite1
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I'm relaunching my website after a long period of inactivity, although I've had the website up before - but it only got a trickle of traffic. I have only one instructional guitar video currently; but I expect to post original songs soon. It has my reviews of songs I like, although I have only just over 300 planned for the time being, but intend to add albums too. It has tips on music gear, an original guitar instructional video, links to instructional vids by pros, Rock Culture, free software etc. In the future, I plan to put original music on it as well. It's more of a critic of Rock from an old-school POV than anything else; but will have original material there too - although I might be persuaded to make a personal musicianship site a separate site.
Under the hood, the menus are pretty spiffy, with transparent menu titles which stay on the screen at all times, and drop-down menus that drop down into the scrolling area, and yet are always in the right place. The menu corners are rounded, the menus have a highlight, and the currently selected page has an arrow by it. I have to make the rounded menu tabs individually, as well as the rounded tops and bottoms; but I use transparency, so I can change the background graphic at any time (perhaps even by user selection). I started out trying to do an IE5.5 compatible float-drop, but I ultimately gave up on doing this and getting transparency working right in IE5.5. Perhaps in time, these menus might become too cumbersome, but perhaps not. It is 100% hand-coded; although it uses some CSS from a template I found for the menus. The drop-down scheme doesn't work if JavaScript is off; but it degrades gracefully for IE<8, other primitive browsers, or no JavaScript. There is currently no database used; although that may change if I also expand to allow customer song and gear reviews.
Please take a look, and tell me what U think:
http://rocksite.net63.net/
I'm interested to know if you guys think I should break up what it is, or change the focus in some way. I'm also interested to know how I get some/better pagerank and traffic. As to commercial aspects to it, they are ill-defined at present. This sort of info I think would be of more of interest to a select cadre of knowledgeable musicians than most fans; but as I get more original content, or if I decide to allow others to post reviews, commercial opportunities may arise. I'll be looking forward to yer feedback. Also, any general comments about improving the site are also welcome.
TIA
Under the hood, the menus are pretty spiffy, with transparent menu titles which stay on the screen at all times, and drop-down menus that drop down into the scrolling area, and yet are always in the right place. The menu corners are rounded, the menus have a highlight, and the currently selected page has an arrow by it. I have to make the rounded menu tabs individually, as well as the rounded tops and bottoms; but I use transparency, so I can change the background graphic at any time (perhaps even by user selection). I started out trying to do an IE5.5 compatible float-drop, but I ultimately gave up on doing this and getting transparency working right in IE5.5. Perhaps in time, these menus might become too cumbersome, but perhaps not. It is 100% hand-coded; although it uses some CSS from a template I found for the menus. The drop-down scheme doesn't work if JavaScript is off; but it degrades gracefully for IE<8, other primitive browsers, or no JavaScript. There is currently no database used; although that may change if I also expand to allow customer song and gear reviews.
Please take a look, and tell me what U think:
http://rocksite.net63.net/
I'm interested to know if you guys think I should break up what it is, or change the focus in some way. I'm also interested to know how I get some/better pagerank and traffic. As to commercial aspects to it, they are ill-defined at present. This sort of info I think would be of more of interest to a select cadre of knowledgeable musicians than most fans; but as I get more original content, or if I decide to allow others to post reviews, commercial opportunities may arise. I'll be looking forward to yer feedback. Also, any general comments about improving the site are also welcome.
TIA
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