*long, heavy sigh of relief*

[Aaron Saunders]

Well, at about 4am, I was struck with the idea...hey, I should make a website! It'd been something I'd been toying with for a while, and a friend of mine had made one to achieve something similar to what I wanted to do (basically, self-promotion).

After almost six hours, I finally managed to make a prototype of the site. Hosted on tripod and using one of their templates, it took a long time to even get it to look half-decent. I did a bit of an HTML tutorial, and then went to town in Paintshop Pro, Adobe, and the tripod web-editor. I also managed to get a .tk for it too. I still need to put in a news section, and I'm writing up a thing on DIY setups in Word Perfect that I'm going to put on the site too.

So far, it has a music bio, a section for putting up recordings (as of now and for the near future, it's just a description of my playing style), a section for write-ups on local muscians, a gear page, a links page, and a contact page. Each page has some degree of content, because nothing would seem more lame than putting up a bunch of sections that said "Coming soon!". I'm going to go to bed soon, and when I wake up, I'm going to put down a couple more people in the local musicians section (2 more teachers, and a few muso's that've left town).

[Steph Dawe]

Nice!

What's your address? Can I link you?

Mine's in my sig, if you're interested in seeing it. I made it using GeoCities (which is an obvious thing to say once you've seen it ) and I'm really proud of it.

[Petebass]

I refuse to become a "dot.com".

[SlavaF]

Yeah, I made a couple sites too, and I still don't know a thing about HTML! Gotta love MS Frontpage!

PS here's my personal site.

[Aaron Saunders]

www.govithoy.tk


Slava: That Bass Corner section is really, really cool. Good job!
steph: Very cool. Sims section = awesome. Especially the downloadable houses and the Prince of Persia skin.


EDIT: By the by, 10 points to anyone who recognizes their bass in my picture thingies at the top of each page.

[DubDubs]

I love writing HTML. I just open up notepad and code away when I'm bored. I've made some pretty nice sites too. Here's a site I'm working on. No content yet it's just the layout but I think it turned out nice.

[SlavaF]

Originally Posted by Govithoy

www.govithoy.tk


Slava: That Bass Corner section is really, really cool. Good job!
steph: Very cool. Sims section = awesome. Especially the downloadable houses and the Prince of Persia skin.


EDIT: By the by, 10 points to anyone who recognizes their bass in my picture thingies at the top of each page.

Thanks! I was hoping it would be helpful to fellow bass players.

And your site looks really nice BTW. Very classy and elegant.

[James Hart]

Originally Posted by Govithoy

EDIT: By the by, 10 points to anyone who recognizes their bass in my picture thingies at the top of each page.

page doesn't render in Netscape 7.2

I love coding pages... I use http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ exclusively these days.

http://www.hartsafire.com is my personal site. I coded it first in 98/99... I think I want to do a redesign, I'm tired of seeing it

[edit] got it to view... musta been the ad before. is it the yamaha from your gear page?[/edit]

[SlavaF]

Originally Posted by James Hart

page doesn't render in Netscape 7.2

I love coding pages... I use http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ exclusively these days.

http://www.hartsafire.com is my personal site. I coded it first in 98/99... I think I want to do a redesign, I'm tired of seeing it

[edit] got it to view... musta been the ad before. is it the yamaha from your gear page?[/edit]

I actually like your site a lot. The colors go very well together, and it just looks great overall.

[James Hart]

Originally Posted by SlavaF

I actually like your site a lot. The colors go very well together, and it just looks great overall.

Thanks, but 5 or 6 years of looking at it makes me think I need a change.

[Aaron Saunders]

It's a shame it doesn't show up in Netscape, James, your '51 style Benavente is on the site . Do you know what I could do to make it visible for Netscape?

Oh, and I agree with Slava -- the colours do go together quite nicely.

I put up another section -- go to Projects, and you'll find links to a DIY article for basic setup, reviews on strings (soon to be additional gear), and a link to my band. More pages there when I start school and get some info on the school bands to put up.

Originally Posted by stephdawe04

Nice!

What's your address? Can I link you?

Mine's in my sig, if you're interested in seeing it. I made it using GeoCities (which is an obvious thing to say once you've seen it ) and I'm really proud of it.

You certainly can link me! I'll make sure to return the favour, as well as putting Slava in mine too (the bass instruction thing = awesome).

I also just added a few more musicians to the "Local Music" section.

[James Hart]

Originally Posted by Govithoy

It's a shame it doesn't show up in Netscape, James, your '51 style Benavente is on the site . Do you know what I could do to make it visible for Netscape?

I edited my post... I got to your site. The first time I think it was your free host's banner ad that chiked it. The site looks good. (I like my bass... I missed it the first view)

[Aaron Saunders]

Awesome! Good to know. Unfortunately...you don't get the points, since I told you. *shakes head*

[James Hart]

Originally Posted by Govithoy

Awesome! Good to know. Unfortunately...you don't get the points, since I told you. *shakes head*

I guessed the Yamaha from the first page