I’m With The Band reader poll results
The votes have all been counted, and the results are in. Head on over to I‘m With The Band to see the I’m With The Band, 2008 Reader’s Choice Top 20 Albums of 2008. Read More →
2009, the year of the merger?
Duncan Riley has been making a whole bunch of predictions for 2009 over on the Inquisitr blog, many of them seem quite likely, a few seem fanciful, and a couple are a bit ‘yeh sure Duncan’. One of the predictions which really got me thinking was ‘2009 Will Be The Year of the Uber Blog‘. The reason this article / prediction got... (more...)
On selling out and gossip
And in the tradition of news type blogs I’m With The Band now has a ‘Gossip‘ column. We’re going to try and keep it as music related as possible, and hey so far we have stories about Katy Perry, Rihanna, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse (I’m sorry, I really am), and Zooey Deschanel. I wonder what it will do for site traffic, guess... (more...)
I’m With The Band’s 2008 reader poll, my votes
As you probably know by now we’ve been running a reader poll over on I’m With The Band, the aim being to find out from our readers what they thought were the best albums released in 2008. Well the poll is now closed and while we’re going through all the results, and working out the prize packs, I figured I would share with you my Top... (more...)
I’m With The Band, reader poll 2008!
Time’s nearly up to get your reader poll entry in for the I’m With The Band 2008 Reader Poll. The poll closes midnight on the 25th of December, AEST. If your entry isn’t in by then you’ll miss out on the opportunity to win one of the prize packs. So quick, head on over to the I’m With The Band Reader Poll and fill in your... (more...)
Colour Palette decisions
The colours you choose to use on a website can make a massive difference to the overall appeal of the website, it also can affect the tone of conversation and even traffic figures. So it’s quite important to pick a colour combination that not only looks good, but conveys the right message about the website. Well currently I’m building a... (more...)
More changes rolling through
Bit by bit I’m getting organised with the setting up of a blogging network. At this point in time there is I’m With The Band and Cool & Stuff on the list, and hopefully a few more websites will be coming online shortly as part of the network. The whole idea behind the networking these blogs is to open up greater advertising revenue potential... (more...)
Fueled by coffee
Fueled by a couple of strong coffees, I’ve some how managed to sketch up 5 different website designs in my web design Moleskine this morning. Hopefully over the next few days or so I can start putting the designs together, code wise that is. I’ve always been into playing around with website design and development but until recently the... (more...)
All Launched Out
Yesterday I spent a very long day in front of Taco HTML Editor, in combination with Firebug and Transmit FTP, putting together the final coding touches to a new clients website. All up it was an 11 hour session, I’ve not seriously coded for that long in a single day before however as we were aiming to launch the site this morning it was a necessity. So... (more...)
New website design
For the last month and a bit I’ve been selling my services as a web consultant, basically I’ve been helping a couple of local companies better their web presence and help them on their way toward being a whole lot more web savvy. As part of this consulting role I’m also developing new websites for each of them, 3 of which will be going... (more...)