The Link

The Project

The purpose of this site was simple, to provide an upcoming gig listing, a contact form, an MP3 player and links to the various social networking sites that the band are involved in. Expandability was key, with future plans to incorporate photo galleries and online sales to be kept in mind.

After stripping the content down to its bare essentials, I decided that anything other than a single page would be unnecessary. A sense of ‘web-site’ rather than ‘web-page’ was created by spreading the content across a large area and using an up/down auto-scrolling navigation.

The Flavours needed a site to reflect their DIY eithic, but one that also captured their individuality and irreverent sense of fun. The minimal use of colour and the use of ‘courier’ and hand-drawn fonts kept the site ‘lo-fi’, and the strong areas of black/white contrast create a striking visual effect, especially when flying past the screen on the auto-scroll.

The Geek Stuff

Site management needed to be kept as simple as possible for the guys, so the ‘random player’ (hats off to premiumbeat for the OS love) is based on a PHP script that picks a random mp3 file that has been uploaded into a perticular directory on the server, and then grabs all the other info necessary from the metatags of the file.

The gig guide reads from a spreadsheet uploaded to the same directory, and automatically wipes any listings that are in the past.

Obviously a big helping of JQuery and associated plugins, the detail of which I’ll go into at a later point.

Peace.