Website critique please
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Thanks for the replies guys.
Point 1 from both of you - yep, I personally agree that generally music playing from page load isn't a good thing. But they site owner wanted it that way due to the musical nature of the site, he also wanted it to be randomised on load. I can see that's a particularly bad idea now due to the diverse mix of the type of music he plays, being greeted with one of the Doom tracks could be a nasty surprise to an unsuspecting visitor, however I don't think it would be as bad if one of his more chilled piano tracks greets the user.
There were two reasons behind using this particular player, one is the discreet nature of it at the bottom of the screen. So if it were to set to be off by default I'd probably need to have some kind of call to action on the page showing the user where it is and invite them to play it, which isn't a big deal.
But the other important reason was the factor is that it continues playing no matter where the user is on the site, so they can navigate and listen uninterrupted. It's the SCM player code that generates the frames to create this effect, which isn't ideal and leads onto the url issue..hmm. This could be side stepped by using a sharing widget perhaps on each page? Which would leave me with the SEO issue.
Roy - are you saying that I might be able to get around the continuous playing during navigation by using AJAX?
Point 1 from both of you - yep, I personally agree that generally music playing from page load isn't a good thing. But they site owner wanted it that way due to the musical nature of the site, he also wanted it to be randomised on load. I can see that's a particularly bad idea now due to the diverse mix of the type of music he plays, being greeted with one of the Doom tracks could be a nasty surprise to an unsuspecting visitor, however I don't think it would be as bad if one of his more chilled piano tracks greets the user.
There were two reasons behind using this particular player, one is the discreet nature of it at the bottom of the screen. So if it were to set to be off by default I'd probably need to have some kind of call to action on the page showing the user where it is and invite them to play it, which isn't a big deal.
But the other important reason was the factor is that it continues playing no matter where the user is on the site, so they can navigate and listen uninterrupted. It's the SCM player code that generates the frames to create this effect, which isn't ideal and leads onto the url issue..hmm. This could be side stepped by using a sharing widget perhaps on each page? Which would leave me with the SEO issue.
Roy - are you saying that I might be able to get around the continuous playing during navigation by using AJAX?
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Thanks for telling me, it's on my friends VPS and it's been slow a lot recently and I'm told it's to do with the Apache config or or something, I don't know much about servers. I'm just going to move it all over to my new shared hosting package tonight because it's a huge pain and very frustrating.
Ahh yes, I'll have a look into that. Can that also be generated by creating a specific site map page and submitting it to the search engines too?
The font stack I've used is as follows:
font-family:"Gill Sans", "Gill Sans MT", GillSans, Calibri, "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;
As suggested by this site
They say it's a safe stack to use "The Gill Sans stack should work on most all computers. Gill Sans comes on all Macs and Gill Sans MT is installed with Microsoft Office, and Calibri (which is a good stand-in for Gill Sans) is one the core Vista fonts and is installed with both Office Windows and Office Mac. And lastly, if all else fails, use Trebuchet."
So hopefully it'll be alright
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