well, i got rid of the ajax, and went on a kind of useability spree - ive made all the links the same color (except two which i am fixing now) they are all a mad yellow / gold colour, which i might change. but at least you can see all the links now.
ive also changed the boxes from square to rounded corners, at least for the main pages, i…
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well, i AJAXed this site, ive now got music that doesnt get interrupted as you browse the site, it also stays on while you post comments and things like that.
so the features that ive added are:
inline loading of all pages, except external links and the RSS feed
the pictures page is broken just now, i need to fix that.
there are a few bugs, like this one…
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ive added a few coolthings to my site -
firstly i upgraded the wordpress and all the plugins, which went really smoothly, for once..
then i re-designed the header so that the rss feed is in the to left, and i added my last.fm radio player thingy, i need to do a bit of hacking to get it to not re-load the player every time you go to a new page, i also need to fix the front page a bit - its becoming a bit stale, also the tutorials page looks crap, i need to re-design it so that all the tutorials are displayed in the boxes at the bottom, and not all the random entries from the categories - that should only take a few minutes to do, the radio player thing will take longer.
im not to keen on the position of the search bar thingy, it could be neater.
also i need to make the searcher use google search cos its better, and i can get some money for the searches that you lot do on my site.
i found that all my feeds were crap. my hosting provider had added a bit of code to count the pageviews, but i dont use my hosting providers stats, i use google stats, so i had to remove their code, which was added at run time, it was a hidden option in their control panel that took me ages to find !
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i just stumbled on a cool article and a video of a guy who has wired up the keys form an organ to play different things in a warehouse - there are motors inside pipes and motors that hit iron bars and radiators and things, its kinda weird
watch the video and see some cool pics here
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hi, ive not added any content now for about 2 weeks as ive been finishing off a lot of college work - its all done now, and i went out partying last night, so my head is really sore just now. ive just started to use itunes as my full time media player - i have used windows media player and winamp for ages now, and ive never really been in to itunes, but my music library was all messed up and winamp kept adding all my samples for some reason, which gets really nasty. windows media player had died a long time ago due to the size of my music library. itunes seems to be working ok for just now, which is cool. one of the things i like most about it is that it fetches all the album artwork from the itunes store, so all my cds now have covers. you also get the cool wee bottom store thing that tells you other tracks that ppl who have bought the song you are listening to have also bought, kinda cheeky, but a cool feature. ive been looking into the podcasts part of itunes too, ive listened to a few podcasts for a few years now, winamp has had this
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just to give you a list of the blogs that i read…
http://www.wiretotheear.com/
The popular pro-audio weblog with daily articles on creating music with computers, sequencers, plug-ins, synthesizers, microphones and more. On going discussions about song writing, the music business, promotion, live performances, publishing, royalties and great music recommendations. Executive editor: Oliver Chesler (The Horrorist).
http://torr.typepad.com/weblog/
this is one that i visit every week, it
nine inch nails have just removed themselves from their record label. its on nin.com. they are now offering another album for free, this time its in high def audio ( 24bit 96k wav files) and comes in at a whopping 1.2 gig !
what does that mean for everyone else then ? well, it means that noone is going to buy music on cd or mp3 any more. which sucks for…
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i got the confirmation email last week, and ive just checked the itunes store, and my new album is up !!
the physical cd is available through cdbaby.com aswell =)
so ive added a new slot to the sidebar and put in both of the cds with links to biy them and links to the itunes store, ive also included them in this post so that they will show up in…
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found this article on business week, makes for an interesting read
Andersen got the piracy case against her dropped; now she’s going after the RIAA for conspiracy
by Heather Green
When Tanya Andersen opens the door to her modest apartment in suburban Portland, Ore., her Maltese-terrier mix, Tazz, runs over and wags his tail in a friendly hello. The 45-year-old…
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w0ooot
my second album is out now!!!
cdbaby.com/cd/machinima2
This is the first full album release by the Scottish black metal band Hybrid Machinima, formed from their love of metal and rock in mid 2006. This is an altogether different experience from their debut ep which was released last year, showing more varied style and progressive trends. it is their first release to feature vocals, leading the band away from the…
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