by david usher on June 17, 2008 at 11:52 am

We have redone the site. Hope you like it. There are still lots of features we are going to be adding over the next few months.

Is there anything you want to see added?

29 Comments »

From Amanda — June 17, 2008 @ 12:14 pm

Love it! Especially the colours! Glad to see the Disco/Lyrics page to be added! Like the slideshow of the pictures.. not sure if it is new or not, I just upgraded my computer so it might have just been that my computer was slow.. anyway.. I like it! Great Job! The only thing with black is that it shows the bad pixels on my monitor… ha ha.. didn’t know there were so many. I can’t think of anything that you could add… Not yet anyway!

From jodi — June 17, 2008 @ 12:48 pm

looks great! love love love the bright colours and the black is more soothing to my eyes than the white was….

suggestions :
1 - i miss the link to cloudid - i know i can bookmark it - but i’m lazy! lol
2 - in each of the text-based content pages you may want to consider putting the header title in the same colour as the corresponding tab at the top (eg: Bio could be in the same Blue on both the subsection as in the tab along the top)
3 - most importantly - the tour section doesn’t look nearly large enough yet! :)

thanks!

From Madison — June 17, 2008 @ 1:15 pm

I love it… but what happened to the high resolution videos????

From Jonathan Gallivan — June 17, 2008 @ 1:31 pm

@jodi - The CloudiD link is now in place. We actually did try coloured section headers, but it seemed to take away from the navigation. Thanks for the suggestion, though!

@Madison - We put a link in the VIDEOS section, which gives you a link out to the High-Resolution Videos. We’ll probably be re-vamping that whole video section soon, anyways. :)

From Genevieve — June 17, 2008 @ 1:32 pm

like jodi said… it’s missing a lot of tour dates ;) otherwise everthing looks great for me!

genevieve

From Marylène — June 17, 2008 @ 1:40 pm

A way to listen to “Kill the light” is missing..!

Can’t access myspace websites from the computer at my job.. which is bad

From Madison — June 17, 2008 @ 1:49 pm

@jonathan - ahhhh… found it! thanks! everything here looks fantastic!

From Shannon — June 17, 2008 @ 2:10 pm

I LOVE the new look! Very stylized and distinct!

And I agree with Marylene that some sort of music player would be a nice addition. Cant think of anything else that is missing!

From yvette kirchgesner — June 17, 2008 @ 2:46 pm

Everything looks great! I like the colors. A music player would be nice…maybe with “Kill The Lights” on it?

From yvette kirchgesner — June 17, 2008 @ 2:50 pm

Where’s the facebook link? I see the one for the facebook fanpage but not the regular one.

From brebichex — June 17, 2008 @ 3:21 pm

Oh great! I love it, seriously!
You did a good job :)
Can’t wait to buy your new record!
It’s coming soon …September 9th :)
Have a good day

From Michael — June 17, 2008 @ 3:26 pm

I don’t know, a bit dark and mysterious which is not like you I think. ;) I like it though but as jodi mentions, tour section not filled up enough. ;)

From Claudia — June 17, 2008 @ 3:29 pm

Wicked!!! :)

From Sabrina aka angelinfire — June 17, 2008 @ 5:24 pm

like i said on the forum, is the coolest board by now. !

From Rebecca — June 17, 2008 @ 7:09 pm

Glad to see you’re still on WordPress ;)

From nick — June 17, 2008 @ 7:13 pm

Nice and clean revamp - who did the design work?

The only suggestion I’d have is to not make the Last.fm/etc. buttons open within a the inner content frame. I tried to right click and open Last.fm in a new window and it clobbered my first comment attempt.

Other than that.. lookin’ good. Will check out the new album!

-nick / protagonize

From JulieD — June 17, 2008 @ 7:41 pm

Hi David!

I like the site, I think it resembles you more than the previous one :)

JulieD

From Shannon — June 17, 2008 @ 7:46 pm

For some reason, it is showing an old twitter status

From Daniel — June 17, 2008 @ 9:16 pm

Always good to get a new look, but I actually like the old site better! Design-wise, it was just so much more consistent and easier to navigate. The “David Usher” logo at the top is really nice though. Rainbow… no comment.

The video player still seems to be designed for the old site, in terms of colours etc. Where’s the high-quality one that used to be on?

From Danielle — June 17, 2008 @ 10:45 pm

*sigh* I really don’t like being contrary… but I find the black tiresome and hard to read (might be my old eyes) Thankfully I know about ctrl + scroll to increase font size…. :( Is there an option to change it to a different background? I do love the colour though!! SORRY JONATHAN!!! *sheepishly scurries away*

From bui+ — June 18, 2008 @ 2:53 am

love this new layout, great job Jonathan! :D
this is pretty much the sytle that i love lately, the simply but cool blackness with the neon-rainbow. ^^ (i can see some resemblance with my own hi5 page and thats great..hehehe)

nothing yet to suggest here. but have to say that im glad the disco/lyrics page is to be added! ^^ and the forum works much more faster for me. :D

thank you. ^^

From bui+ — June 18, 2008 @ 4:41 am

and this is a small thing but i like the typewriter alike effect that makes the headings appear from left to right. ^^

From Shannon — June 18, 2008 @ 9:01 am

Scratch my last comment… must have been a twitter glitch. Looks perfect now! :)

From ElizabethLouise — June 18, 2008 @ 10:46 am

Love the new design! Looks great and I like that the links open in a new window (Cloud, MS, etc.) No one ever seconded my request in the forums, but since your asking suggestions I give it another go. Any chance the BIO section could include a little something on all the band members? Unless of course they’re all too shy. ;)

From Elizabeth M — June 18, 2008 @ 11:19 am

Love the new site….the colors are wicked, and obviously go with the new album art!!! Very slick and stylish!!! The black background works way better than the white!! Bottom line….I like it!

From Ani — June 18, 2008 @ 12:48 pm

the text on the right side is almost unreadeable… too light.
:-)

From Anne — June 18, 2008 @ 8:58 pm

I really like it! Very Cool as you are! :D

From telo — June 18, 2008 @ 9:54 pm

a little interactive stuff won’t hurt…i really love the colours, jonathan…awesome work!

From robyn — June 24, 2008 @ 7:20 pm

I’m a big fan of the redesign… but after a week or so of cruising the site, there seems to be one thing missing: a music player. I know that I hate having windows media running in the background, as it slows up my ancient PC, and the music player is something that I really miss from the Strange Birds flash page.
Maybe I’m just being picky… there’s a prefectly good one on myspace… but I thought that the official artist page should have at least one examplar of the music that the artist creates.
That’s jsut my two cents!
Great job on the redesign.

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