Myspace Improvement Tips?

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What do you think?

I guess I'm not extremely happy with it, but its *okay* I guess.

How could I make it better?

 

[Nick Kay]

Get rid of that grade-A terrible background, trash the poorly edited photos in the blurb section, and consider using a profile designer that will change the colour of the Myspace bar. The maroon clashes with the rest of the look.

 

[Stingray_EB]

I would start from scratch and use nice subtle colours, maybe try out a few band logos. The background isnt the nicest I have seen but certainly not the worst. Keep it simple.

 

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Well, boys, after quite a few hours I think I have finished a re-vamp of my band's myspace. I think, at the very least, its certainly an improvement over the older one. There are still a couple things I'd like to do, but its enough for now. I tried to make it alot more streamline and cohesive. I achieved that partly by being selective of colour choice, burgandy, black and grey primarily. I also added personal pictures to the myspace player and took them off the main page. I was also very selective about picture choice. I think less is more is a good approach. If we had better pro pictures, band shots etc that would be good, but it'll do for now.

Better?

 

[adge]

id also go with a different font...

i just found it a little hard to read...

and i agree with previous posts, i much prefer the simpler myspace sites.

 

[coralfankevin]

On a similar topic, my old band's getting back together (first recording tomorrow woo) under a new name, and I was just wondering if you guys could hurl abuse/suggestions at the old myspace?

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Thanks

 

[playibanez]

Get someone to do it its cheap

Here is our myspace layout

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its pretty empty becuase we are taking a break for writing but our friend did that for 25 bucks.

 

[novahands]

Get someone to do it its cheap

Here is our myspace layout

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its pretty empty becuase we are taking a break for writing but our friend did that for 25 bucks.

The main image is almost 1 megabyte. That is entirely way too huge.

 

[Nick Kay]

Well, boys, after quite a few hours I think I have finished a re-vamp of my band's myspace. I think, at the very least, its certainly an improvement over the older one. There are still a couple things I'd like to do, but its enough for now. I tried to make it alot more streamline and cohesive. I achieved that partly by being selective of colour choice, burgandy, black and grey primarily. I also added personal pictures to the myspace player and took them off the main page. I was also very selective about picture choice. I think less is more is a good approach. If we had better pro pictures, band shots etc that would be good, but it'll do for now.

Better?

Much, MUCH better. You just went from a 3 to at least a 6.

The main image is almost 1 megabyte. That is entirely way too huge.

Almost? Whatchu talking about, Willis? It's OVER a meg. Someone on a strained DSL connection just clicked that link and crashed their computer. Happy uncompressed PNG day, everybody! Let's celebrate by wasting more bandwidth!

 

[playibanez]

I dont know much about how many megabytes the layout is but i know its not over the top for a band like us.

 

[Inflin]

I dont know much about how many megabytes the layout is but i know its not over the top for a band like us.

Unless "band like us" means "band that is only listened to by megafast broadband users with empty browser caches", it actually is.

 

[mambo4]

As a web pro by day, I'd have to agree that a huge homepage image thats over 1MB is ridiculous. It's never pass muster at the studio I work at. You have to keep in mind that It's usually faster for the casual web surfer to point their browser elsewhere than to wait for huge files like that to load. Google did a recent study that found the average web surfer waits 3.5 seconds for something to load before giving up and navigating elsewhere...

Any skilled HTML designer can create great looking stuff with a negligible byte size foot print, well under 250KB. But that will cost you more than 25 bucks.